Archive | August, 2008

Cash-in-buttocks man in M25 ban

29 August 2008

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No reason for the post, other than the fact I loved the headline. Cash-in-buttocks man in M25 ban

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The 50th Post

28 August 2008

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I really just logged on here today to delete all the usual spam comments about Britney Spears’ … um … lady’s area, but then I noticed that my post last night was the forty-ninth one to appear on the site. For the mathematically challenged, that would make this post number fifty. A milestone in anyone’s [...]

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Nine families with same name make for postal chaos

27 August 2008

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Nine families with same name make for postal chaos This is the kind of story I love reading. It could only happen in Ireland. Also, the guy in the photo looks just like Father Jack from Father Ted. Make sure you read all the way to the bottom of the article – it just gets [...]

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A goodbye

26 August 2008

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Several years ago – mid to late 90s – I was a student in Aberdeen on an utterly pointless film and media course which has served me no benefit to date, and which probably never will. Anyway, while there I met and became friends with a great bunch of people, ultimately sharing a flat with [...]

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A double rewrite

22 August 2008

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I’ve spent the last week and a bit rewriting one of my own projects, following some feedback from a publisher. It’s done now, and it’s definitely a lot stronger as a result. Now Kathryn will send it back to the publisher and see if they like it. Fingers crossed. Tonight I also rattled through a [...]

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I take it all back

22 August 2008

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Recently, I wrote a post claiming BT were utterly and wholly incompetent, because they were unable to provide me with a phone line here in Wexford. It seems I owe them an apology. Eircom did, indeed, reject my order, due to some ineptitude on their behalf. Once they’d sorted their act out, BT swung into [...]

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Barry, King of Geeks

16 August 2008

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Still no phone line. So, this exciting news I promised yesterday, then. Well, basically, the comic I came up with – Gangrene – has been picked up by the good folks at Arcana Comics. The four issue mini-series will be published first in comic, then in graphic novel format, and will be written by me, [...]

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Evil, thy name is BT

15 August 2008

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Apologies for the long gap between posts, but I am still without anything resembling a proper internet connection. The previous occupier of the new house in Wexford had his phone line supplied by Eircom, the Big Daddy of Irish phone companies. They manage the entire telephone network, much like British Telecom does back in Ol’ [...]

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