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  • Happy Bday Mistress

    Well, my Buell Ulysses XB12XT is one year old today! This time last year I was like a kid in a candy store as I went to collect my new Buell with my partner. The weather was terrific, we went to a nice restaurant and parked the Buell outside for all to admire. Yet by…

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  • Want to Connect?

    Well I am going to give this a try and see what you guys think or if you are interested in taking part! On the right hand side you should see a new widget called ‘Followers’. It is a new google attempt to get people more involved in the content that bloggers talk about. Facebook…

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  • Enfield Goes to War

    Image by victor9098 via Flickr I am a long time fan of Royal Enfield motorcycles and determined to get one in my garage eventually! The new EFI model represents a major step in the right direction with added reliability, relatively straight forward owner maintenance and an engine capable of up to 136kph (85mph). Though more…

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  • Bringing Paddy to the Mountain

    I am currently putting together a holiday to the USA from Ireland and have come across websites and newspaper articles saying how companies are out there to make the process nice and easy for you for a fee… Well guess what, the process is nice and easy, it just happens to involve a little bit…

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  • The High End of Low

    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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  • So Whats New Bunny?

    Now that the release is almost upon us of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope I just want to take a brief look at what is new or has been upgrades since 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, you can find all this information and more at Ubuntu! These notes are from Ubuntu 9.04 Release Candidate; GNOME 2.26 Ubuntu 9.04…

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  • This Is The Cover, Now Judge

    I am among the many legions of people that inhabit the online world of social networks. Which is all fine and dandy until someone goes and gets ‘tagged’. What is tagging? To the uninitiated it is when someone points you out in a video/photo and then anyone else who has access to the aforementioned medium…

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  • Use Ubuntu? Lets Party!

    Excited yet? Well, you should be, Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is coming at us fast. This Thursday the 23rd of April it will be available for all to download. Before getting into the details of what has been updated in this new release let me just bring your attention to the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu users…

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  • Humanity To Others

    Have some spare RAM? Then why not try and help humanity and do your bit in saving the world. I (as Victor9098) have been helping the World Community Grid for almost a year now (though I have longer running projects with CERN and SETI). The available projects range from mapping the human gnome, trying to…

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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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Past lives: soldier, sailor, lecturer (US politics), researcher (political violence), briefly deceased (2019).

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