Several Cats Later

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• Hobbies & Interests Reviews & Opinions

  Buell, Uly & I

  Almost 1 month and 1 service later it is time for the first blog all about owning and living with my Buell Ulysses XB12XT. Her provisional pet name is ‘Uly’ as I can not think up anything else appropriate! First off this period has been all about breaking in the engine. This would sound like…

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  Keith

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  1 August 2008
• Hobbies & Interests Technology

  Hello Hardy Heron

  How appropriate this is, approximately one year after making the leap to Ubuntu I find myself finally upgrading to the latest release, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This has been much applauded by many as being the best and essentially simplest version of Ubuntu to use and install. Many of the features within it will be…

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  Keith

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  26 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests

  That Time of Year

  People are running around, making their lists and checking them twice! Shaking our heads at which manufacturers have been naughty and nice…yes, over the next few weeks/months we will be treated to the 2009 model line-ups from the various motorcycle manufacturers. To give you an idea of what is in store here is a taster…

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  Keith

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  23 July 2008
• Politics & Political Science

  A Letter To President Sarkozy

  Dear Mr Sarkozy, You are due here on the 21st of July, so let me say welcome to Ireland, the current speed bump in your plans to ensure that a more cost effective, democratically redundant, easier access to EU customers & militarily integrated European experiment. So the NO vote on Lisbon has created a few…

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  Keith

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  18 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests

  Help Make Motorcycling Better

  Being a motorcycle rider usually goes hand-in-hand with having a rather subdued voice when it comes to policy making and how we are treated. But now here is your chance to have your say. First we have the annual Rider Power survey carried out by Ride magazine and the results should be available in their…

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  Keith

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  12 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests Technology

  Heron Soars

  Ubuntu have released the first updated release to Hardy Heron LTS, this being 8.04.1. As with the last LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu there were releases along its life to include all relevant security updates and upgrades. Basically so that once you were finished installing your brand new OS you then do not…

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  Keith

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  10 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests Technology

  Intrepid Dates

  Here are the dates for the testing & release schedule for the next release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. June 26th – Alpha 1July 10th – Alpha 2July 24th – Alpha 3August 14th – Alpha 4August 28th – Feature FreezeSeptember 4th – Alpha 5September 18th – Alpha 6September 15th – Beta FreezeOctober 2nd – Beta…

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  Keith

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  8 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests

  Old Friends for Sale

  Well Karma is gone… I have never owned a motorcycle for such a short period & she was the first motorcycle I bought ‘new’! So I better make clear that it was I that changed and not her (but could we still be friends?). Overall she is an excellent package which is very hard to…

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  Keith

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  4 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests

  Day Dreaming Rides (But What If?)

  While Karma (my Kawasaki Er-6f/Ninja 650r) was being repaired and I had the hire bike it gave me a couple of weeks to think about what if she had been written off? What would I consider as a next bike? So over the weeks I drew up a short list of what I considered to…

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  Keith

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  1 July 2008
• Hobbies & Interests

  Be Sharp & Live to Ride

  It is well past that time of the year again, bikes have been rolled out of garages and uncovered at the backs of gardens after the long winter lay up. Now the average biker (40+ years of age, covers less the 5000 miles a year) can pull on his work wear, a helmet then jump…

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  Keith

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  20 June 2008