A couple of months back Min went on holidays to the UK for a week. While she was away I brought my Mum to a local nursery to buy some plants. While there she found a honeysuckle plant and I thought it would make a nice addition to our garden to cover up wall that prior to that only had ivy growing on it for 15 years. I’m sure it looked nice back when the Read more
Apparently DIY stores are looking for €40 for snow shovels! Sod that. Bit of wood and half a plastic lid of an old compost bin and its sorted! OK so its not the most elegant but it works well! Read more
Decided to make lasagna today. And of course my recipe requires about a third of a bottle of red wine. After quick glance at the wine in the house, I came to the same conclusion I always do when cooking – all of that is too good to cook with. Since I was going to lidl anyway for the veg I thought I’d just pick up a cheap bottle while there. At the moment there Read more
Basic instructions are here: http://kuffner-sternwarte.at/hms/wiki/index.php5?title=Lightmeter-Driver#Linux # apt-get install make gcc wget libhid-dev # wget http://kuffner-sternwarte.at/hms/wiki/uploads/LightmeterLinuxMark2.3.zip # unzip LightmeterLinuxMark2.3.zip # make Read more
Just got this email from the EFF: Help stop the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) from steamrolling our rights and freedoms. Please contact your Member of Parliament (MEP) today and ask them to sign a Declaration that takes a stand against efforts to curb Internet freedom in ACTA. Parliamentarians must sign in person before July 8, during the Strasbourg plenary session. Written Declaration 12 asks EU negotiators to ensure that ACTA respects European citizens’ fundamental rights to Read more
Today eircom implemented their three strike rule. Here is a letter I sent to my local TD recently on the subject. Dear Ciaran, Thanks for your tweet regarding the judicial decision regarding the so called ‘3 strike rule’ being implemented by eircom at the request of the music and movie industries. I hope you have the time to read this reply. You mentioned that ‘false accusations are problematic’. That is true, but there are many Read more
Dear Councilors & TD’s, It was with incredulity that I read reports in the Irish Times of the destruction of parts of Dalkey Quarry. The first recorded climbs by the Irish Mountaineering Council were undertaken in the 1940’s. Today the quarry is used almost daily by climbers and the routes range from the very beginner level up to some of the hardest climbs in the country. It is the only quarry that I know of Read more
The start of 2010 has been an interesting time in the EU. Where, in stark contrast to most places, we seem to be coming up with good legislation and ideas. February 22nd: The EU Commission proposes a ban on all commercial fishing of Atlantic bluefin tuna by 2011. Predictably the Japanese are the ones who are protesting most. But you would expect that from a nation that seems to have a policy of making marine Read more
Recently out broadband usage seems to have gone up quite significantly. This, naturally, has been blamed on me. And the Mac. As Min put it “this only became an issue since the mac came into the house!”. Now you can log into the web interface of the Voyager and get the bytes since it connected. You can also reset some network traffic counters in Status -> Traffic Stats, but none of these really give you Read more
I’ve just installed windows 7 on my laptop. Heres what else gets installed: Firefox (and firebug and delicious plugins) Virtualbox Cygwin Tweetdeck itunes picasa Sony Vegas Movie Studio Filezilla AVG Anti Virus GSAK Garmin Mapsource Gimp Google Earth And when I find the install disks (!) : Canon Digital Photo Pro Starry Night Read more