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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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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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