Cooking for engineers - has a few recipies but more importantly it discusses whether it is better to use paper cases, aluminium cases or paper cases inside aluminium cases…. www.cookingforengineers.com
A french virtual network operator has brought out (rebranded) a wifi phone that uses GSM and 802.11b for €200 - the N9UF Twin that looks like [...]

Portlaoise is one hard place to get through if you don’t have a good map. So instead of stopping and getting the bus the rest of the way to Dublin, I ended up heading towards Mountmellick. I turned back, tried a different route and still ended up on the way to Mountmellick. Since I wanted [...]

And here’s a link for you to email send by MSN etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr2zGYT2Egs or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoCMyIrBC04

Ah the world cup - I too am in the world cup pool at work - 16 people get two teams each, one from the top 16 seeds and one from the bottom 16. So I got USA and Equador - see below for bit about rankings.
Already Ecuador are my best shot - they just [...]

I failed so I’m on L plates for another while.
No 1 reason I failed: looked over the right shoulder but didn’t look over the left enough during the turnabout - grade 3 fault and thats a failure on it’s own.
No 2 reason: Even if it was a grade 2 fault it would have been [...]

A video from qualifying - you can hear the car long before you can see it
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There was a bit of a party atmosphere before the race - one ship sang happy birthday to the one beside it!
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Then of course there was the race proper - this was the first lap after the safety car
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Bordeaux has renewed my faith in France, well I was never keen on the place but the people were so nice and the place was beautiful. I doubt I’d live there but it’s a nice place to visit.
These are random shots during the week of the conference:
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I sometime refer to France as [...]