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Time to dust off this blog

rob — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:12:44 +0000

So this blog has gone a little fallow recently – 6 months without a post…er…it’s overgrown with brambles at this stage Hopefully I can make it a bit more regular again. Either that or replace it with a black times new roman font on white background page.

Some interesting material on the new architecture for ftp.heanet.ie to follow.

“Revolution” irssi theme

rob — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:56:27 +0000

Modifying the evolution-hack irssi theme with bits of the agon theme, I’ve put together a theme called “Revolution”.

It looks nice enough on terminals with dark backgrounds/light text. I might tone down the yellow colour used for the nick printing though.

Dumb insurance ads

rob — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:08:57 +0000

Axa are running a particularly irresponsible series of ads on the radio at the moment.

One shows a Dublin 4 type who’s overjoyed at not ever having to take the 46A bus ever again since she’s got her car insurance from Axa. The other is one of those “idiot conversations” – two guys are going to Slane, and one of them tries to impress his friend by saying he’ll be driving there from now on instead of taking some “smelly coach”.

They are basically promoting a “losers take the bus” attitude with this. Not to mention that the ads are hysterically mis-informed: The 46A is widely acknowledged as the best bus route in Dublin, it’s frequency is almost German-like and it always receives the newest vehicles – it also has a quality bus corridor most of the way into town. As for the Slane ad, yeah, try driving to a concert there and see how far you get

Abandoned Power Station

rob — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:19:07 +0000

There’s something cool about abandoned industrial buildings, and they don’t come much better than this. I just dug up some photos I took last year when myself and Bee went wandering around inside the old power station in ESB poolbeg. From what I can gather it was opened in 1900 and was in operation until the 1970s when the existing power station was opened.

Note: I wouldn’t recommend you venture in there alone, there are quite a number of unknown hazards in a building like this.

Hare Hare Yukai – Sunny Sunny Happy!

rob — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:21:13 +0000

Summer is teh arrived, today makes me think of the Haruhi ending, Hare Hare Yukai (Sunny Sunny Happy!):

NAZONAZO mitai ni chikyuugi wo tokiakashitara
Minna de doko made mo ikeru ne

WAKUWAKU shitai to negainagara sugoshiteta yo
Kanaetekureta no wa dare nano?

Jikan no hate made Boooon!!

WA-PU de RU-PU na kono omoi wa
Nani mo kamo wo makikonda souzou de asobou

ARU haRETA hi NO koto
Mahou ijou no YUKAI ga
Kagirinaku furisosogu fukanou janai wa
Ashita mata au toki warai nagara HAMINGU
Ureshisa wo atsumeyou
KANTAN nanda yo ko.n.na.no
Oikakete ne tsukamaete mite
Ooki na yume&yume SUKI deshou?

IROIRO yosou ga dekisou de dekinai MIRAI
Sore demo hitotsu dake wakaru yo

KIRAKIRA hikatte atsui kumo no ue wo kazaru
Hoshitachi ga kibou wo kureru to

Jikan ni norou yo Byuuuuun!
CHI-PU de KU-RU na toshigoro da mon
Samishigaccha hazukashii yo nante iwasete

Te to te wo tsunaidara
Mukau TOKO muteki desho
Kagayaita hitomi ni wa fukanou ga nai wa
Ue dake miteiruto namida mo kawaichau
“Kawaritai!”
KOKORO kara tsuyoku omou hodo tsu.ta.wa.ru
Hashiridasu yo ushiro no hito mo oide yo
DOKIDOKI suru deshou?

Boooon!!