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This Kind Of Shit Makes Me Sick
GMIT – A Drain To Society
Well done random NUIG student, you’re insulting one massive sector of Irish people and reinforcing the idea that University students are snobby cunts for the rest. I’d urge anyone with morals to spot how these things don’t end up as jokes, they end in people getting hurt and report the [...]
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How Safe Is Your Privacy Online?
So I was just reading Paul O’Flaherty’s blog and came across this. Well I headed over to http://whattheinternetknowsaboutyou.com/ to see how safe I was, and I got this (Click for Full Size)
Good no? I don’t even wear a tinfoil hat So what about you, how safe are ya? The Internet at least now [...]
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Tags: firefox, Karmic Koala, Linux Mint, Online Privicy, Transmission, ubuntu
I got my college offers!
Well I knew from twitter leaks last night I’d gotten my coarse, but clicking accept on cao.ie is a whole different ballgame, and a relief to be perfectly honest. As of September I will be studying Software Development in Computing at GMIT Galway. I’m over the moon, and can’t wait to get started. Congratulations to [...]
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Tags: cao, college, GMIT, Leaving Cert
I See Radiohead Have a New Song
Recently the last remaining UK veteran of the 1st world war Harry Patch died at the age of 111.
I had heard a very emotional interview with him a few years ago on the Today program on Radio4.
The way he talked about war had a profound effect on me.
It became the inspiration for a song that [...]
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Tags: Harry Patch, Music, Radiohead
Wooo-ooooo-oooooh
Really got a kick out of this, not sure why. Maybe the fact someone went out of their way to write the lyrics to ‘Heard Them Stirring’. Ledge.
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Tags: fleet foxes, linux, lyrics, songbird
I know I’m not the only one who has really suffered this week with Eircom downtime (Apparently their DNS servers were hacked. The lady I asked about this on the phone convincingly said “Ah no, I don’t think they were hacked now, is that even possible?”) and just switched to OpenDNS, which was suggested by [...]
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Tags: broadband issues, Eircom, OpenDNS
67% is better than 68%?
Seen first on Trust Tommy. A few months back I reckon I would have had a higher score. How addicted are you?
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Guess Who’s Back…
…Back again? Johnny’s Back, Double Gin. So yep, All broadbanded up and ready to hit the town. It’s been over four months of no Internet. Welcome me back. Pet my head. Leave a commant. Whatever turns you on
Also, I notice that I’ve had 5′000 views since my last post, half my total views. Proving my [...]
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Tags: Ecstasy, Fucking Delighted, Thomas Geraghty
It Happens. I just think it’s a dying shame that when Twitter fails, it doesn’t do it in 140 characters or less.
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Of Distant Plains
Every night, around 2:30, the wind comes through a tiny space in the window frame. One would suspect shoddy workmanship but that’s not important.
The important bit is that the wind going through the crack sounds like distant wolves howling, throwing the listener into storybook landscapes, a young man trudging though deep snow, he only had [...]
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Tags: fantasy
