Author: Keith
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The Monkey Is Dead…
…So Long Live The Rabbit! Goodbye Gutsy On October 18th 2007 I got a taste of my second Ubuntu flavour, 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’. Now some 18 months and 2 upgrades later (8.04LTS Hardy Heron & 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) the impressive monkey will swing no more as it reaches its end of life on April 18th…
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Time For A Change
Believe me when I say we have a difficult time ahead of us. But if we are to be prepared for it, we must first shed our fear of it. I stand here, before you now, truthfully unafraid. Why? Because I believe something you do not? No, I stand here without fear because I remember.…
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Dipping & Soaring With The Breeze
I must admit, for the first time in my riding life I hit a dark patch over the last few months. It seemed to be a combination of factors, never have I been so unlucky on two wheels then over the last year, never mind the personal trials I have faced. Starting in May ’08…
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Don’t Get Mad…Get MAG Ireland
At the Irish Motorcycle Show just gone by among the many exhibitors I got to chat to were the always interesting people at the MAG Ireland stall. So who is MAG Ireland? First off they are the Motorcycle Action Group and the best way to describe their role is to think of them as an…
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Old Enough To Choose (Are We Ever)?
Funny that on one side of the planet China is criticized for having family planning policies relating to how many children a family may have while in Europe (in some states) we can decide when we want to die. Now in the name of ‘social planning’ states can rule you unfit to work not based…
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Irish Motorcycle Show Returns
After a break last year the Carole Nash Irish Motorcycle Show is back at the RDS, Dublin on the 27th February -1st March. OK, I am the first to admit that the shows performance has been questionable in the past but with any luck they have improved and this may be an attempt to raise…
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Karmic Koala’s Bringing Humanity To Others!?
Last Thursday (19th February) the next version of Ubuntu (9.04 Jaunty Jackalope) went into ‘Feature Freeze’, which essentially means that the current testing version is as close as you will get to the finished product due on the 23rd April. Of course there are still bugs to be splatted and the last few kinks ironed…
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Italy Tells Motorcycle Trailers To Roll On
Have a motorcycle with a trailer?? Like traveling around Europe with it? Well you better be careful as it is now illegal to drive on Italian roads while towing a trailer behind your motorcycle. The process to achieve this great legislative milestone (seriously…there are bigger issues!) has been a funny little journey. You see they…
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MotoGP ’09 – First Blood
After the turbulent events over the break with the pull-out of Kawasaki and rumours surrounding other teams it is great to finally see this years contenders back on the track. Over the course of the tests Rossi had a few ‘offs’, while Stoner with his ‘weak’ wrist seems more then capable of keeping to the…
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Testing Man & Metal; RTA & I
Statistically it was bound to happen. In my eleventh year on two wheels and many thousands of kilometers I was involved in my first road traffic accident (RTA). I am lucky, very lucky. There is a saying among motorcyclists, “we all come off, some get back, some don’t, some can’t“. I can get back on…
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