Archive for April, 2005

A Galaxy of Irish Blogs

Monday, April 18th, 2005

I meant to blog about this ages ago but even if everyone already knows about it, I still want to highly recommend a visit to Planet Of The Blogs. This Irish blogs aggregator was launched earlier this month by John Breslin and is another bright idea from Boards.ie.
Irish blog resources seem to be like buses: [...]

Great Dell Support Service

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Seeing as I’m the first to give out about inefficiency, Ireland and innumerable other things, I better give credit where its due. I have been very impressed with Dell’s support service of late.
My poor laptop, Smurf, starting making lots of noise a couple of weeks ago. Within a few minutes of turning it on, the [...]

Wacky BETDAQ

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Unusually, I spent most of today watching TV: the royal wedding and the Grand National.
Luckily, I managed to pick the winner, Hedgehunter. Ruby Walsh didn’t let me down and I was delighted to see him win the race for the second time. Although it would have been even better to see Carrie Ford become the [...]

Fellowship for Nicky

Friday, April 8th, 2005

The BBC reports that Nicky Wire, bassist with the Manic Street Preachers, has been awarded an honorary fellowship from Swansea University.
He graduated with a degree in politics from there back in 1990 but never made it to the graduation ceremony, so it was his first time donning the cap and gown. He was presented with [...]