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noirin tag-thingied me. I think I’ve got to list five things people don’t generally know about me, then list five more people to list things. I’m not sure if I’m allowed list people who were listed by the person who listed me. Anyway…

1. I injured myself today. I was cycling across a bridge when a sudden gust of wind threw me off the bike and into a handrail pillar. My big toe on my left foot hit the pillar and the bike then slammed into the back of my foot. My big toe may be broken. I’ve broken that toe before, in 3^rd year in Roscrea, while having a race through the dorm in the middle of the night.
2. I’ve been to four Debs, my own in 2005 and I’ve been invited to three others. At each of these a certain song was played and ever since I’ve associated that song with the girl whose Debs it was.
• In 2006 Megan O’Carroll invited me to her Debs. Her song is “Chasing Cars” by Snow Patrol.
• In 2005 Chantelle Wallace invited me to her Debs. Her song is “Accidentally in Love” by Counting Crows.
• In 2004 Aoife Quinn invited me to her Debs. Her song is “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers.
3. In 2003 I went to Brussels on a class trip. This was the first time I was very drunk. I drank, in order:
• 2 cans of beer
• 20cls of Peach Schnapps
• A Baileys
• 3 Pints
• A Double straight whiskey
• Rum and Coke?
• The ends of drinks other people left in the bar
• ???
• …
• Water
4. I’ve was suspended from Secondary school twice:
• In 2002 I was suspended for:
• Pilfering Potassium nitrate, Charcoal and Sulfur from the Chemistry Labs.
• Mixing them together to form Gunpowder.
• Making Crude Fireworks.
• In 2001 I was suspended for:
• Distributing the SubSeven Virus among the Schools Computers.
• Pilfering:
• Food from the Kitchens
• A Payphone
5. My thumbs have always been ¨double jointed¨. One day in 1996 I taught myself to do this with my little fingers.

My five victims are, in no order:

• Rach
• Dianne
• Eoghan
• Steve
• Gar

Skynet recently purchased some new kitt (no pun intended) in the form of 3 dual-core Opterons with 2Gigs of RAM each (gir, caro and skynet) and a Pentium D with a Gig of RAM (kitt).

I helped physically install some of the boxes, and I must say, the Rails shipped with the Opterons were unbelievably easy to install. Dell call them “Sliding Combination Rapid/Versa Rail with CMA” and if you can get your hands on some I would thoroughly recommend it.

I took some low quality photos of the servers just after they were installed. Hopefully someone will shoot some better shots at some stage. The photos can be found here and here.

Firstly, Congrats to Steve and Noirin, may they aim to out-pedant each other for many years to come.

I’ve been up to many things over the last while which I haven’t posted about.

I went to Scotland to visit Meg for her birthday, and also went down to Stockton to visit Poppy for a night. Photos of the trip can be found in my new flickr account.

I was given A Weekend in the City as a present from Meg and I purchased The Prayer on Vinyl (which happens to be my first Vinyl) while I was in Scotland. I’ll write a review some time soon.

I got Perspective up and running at work. It’s quite impressive and I would recommend anyone in a Windows based environment to check it out.

SkyCon happened. And it went quite smoothly. I met some great people at the conference (of which I have taken some photos). I also took 6 hours of video which I will be processing and editing over the next few weeks. Watch this space. I was also interviewed by the LugRadio guys for their show which should be online on Monday the 26^th.

I started a new semester in UL which is cool, finally we have some computer related modules again (I’m currently in AM-061).

I finally got listed on Planet Nonado, seven months after I ask that my blog be aggregated. *grin*