Category: Hobbies & Interests
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Irish Motorcycle Road Racing Exhibition (Oct 23/24)
Image by Aled Beswick via Flickr Over the weekend of October 23rd/24th there will be an exhibition in Kells, County Meath, showcasing all aspects of road racing here in Ireland. So if you enjoy watching the thrill of the racing this will be an unique opportunity to get to see everything else that is going…
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Brammo Empulse: 100miles@100mph on Electric Motorcycle
Brammo has been impressing with their electric motorcycle range and since they first released the Enertia and then decided to ride two of these electric motorcycles along the route of the automotive CEOs who went to Washington DC asking for government loans. Now they have raised the bar for all the other electric motorcycle manufactures,…
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Space Nazi’s Coming in 2018?
From Blogger Pictures Hopefully they will arrive sooner then that, probably within the next 18 months if I was to hazard a guess, all thanks to the indie movie studio Energia Productions Ltd. Their previous Sci-Fi effort has become something of a cult classic, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, and building on the success of…
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The Name is Meerkat, Maverick Meerkat
Image via Wikipedia The codename/mascot for the October 2010 release of Ubuntu has been announced as the ‘Maverick Meerkat’ and Mark Shuttleworth is hinting at shaking things up a bit and aiming for the perfect 10 once the LTS is out of the way in April. Many will be happy to live with the Lynx…
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Time for the Ibex to Graze: Ubuntu 8.10 End of Life
Image by louisvolant via Flickr October 2008 saw the release of Ubuntu 8.10, codename Intrepid Ibex, but from 30th of April 2010 its support period ends. Users are recommended to upgrade their machines still running this version of Ubuntu before this time. This comes as we will see the release of the next LTS version…
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Motorcycle Industry Letter to the Commission
Image via Wikipedia With all the talk of late of new EU regulations concerning the future of motorcycles in Europe, such as restrictions of 100bhp, I have been surprised the motorcycle industry has remained so quiet, now we have what seems to be the first major response from the ACEM (the Motorcycle Industry in Europe).…
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Fancy a Ride this Sunday? AAI Info/Reg Ride-Out
With the Irish Motorcycle Show only taking place every two years now the organisers of the Annual Across Ireland have taken to organising information/registration ride out when they can not have a stall at the Motorcycle Show. This years event will be held on Sunday 28th March with everyone meeting between 10am – 12pm at…
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Change We Can Believe In – Ubuntu Rebooted
Believe it or not, 6 years have passed since the Warty Warthog jumped onto out screens. Since then Ubuntu has grown and spread into the stable and secure operating system we find ourselves with today. But now it is time for change, when ‘Human’ gives way to the ‘Light’ of a new dawn for those…
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Kindling Interest: Amazon Kindle 2 in Ireland
I will put my hands up and admit that I was highly sceptical of the recent explosion of ebook reading devices. Amazon and Sony seem to be leading the way, with Apple’s new iPad also being marketed as being suitable for this role, and it was an introduction to the Sony reader that really peaked…
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Hark the Engines Roar: World Superbikes 2010
Image via Wikipedia In the distance I can hear the engines revving, then before my eyes like a mirage the silhouettes of grid girls start emerge, and then on the air my nostrils detect the the sweet mixture of fuel, sweat and leather… it can only mean one thing! The reason why millions of us…
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