Old Sneezes

Archive for March, 2007

Cool new Add-on for Firefox

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

This is goin’ to be great, lads! A new Add-on for Firefox users: A spell checker which runs while you are filling in forms. A must for all bloggers and blog-commenters. See the image below. It underlines incorrect spellings and with a right-click you get suggestions for corrections. Eh, it doesn’t recognise Firefox, blog, and [...]

Another Thick Support Call

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

I was sitting in the kitchen day dreaming of my up coming trip to Spud World when the phone rang. Ferdie. A neighbour not unlike the Pádraigh lad from a few weeks ago. At least Pádraigh has broadband. Ferdie reckons it’s too dear so the last time a crucial update was needed for his computer [...]

Cześć! Jak się masz?

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

MacKozer over at Ireland from a Polish Perspective is hosting a discussion forum where Irish people and Polish people living in Ireland can express their views, good, bad or indifferent, of each other.  A multicultural exchange.  He will be translating English comments and posting them on the Polish language version of his site, and visa [...]

Chose your words carefully

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

My neighbour wasn’t at home yesterday morning when DHL arrived with a very large parcel. Being the civic minded gent that I am, I volunteered to take it. Seeing her drive in later, I went out and shouted across the fence: – You got a big box. – And you’ve got a small dick. Now [...]

Cheltenham updates

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Day 1: Four bets. My Way de Solzen got me off to a great start winning The Arkle at 7/2. Hardy Eustace let me down for the Champion Hurdle but at least we had an Irish winner with the John Carr trained Sublimity. In the 4:00, Juveigneur got a nose past his opponent on the [...]

Victim seeks an appeal as her rapist goes free

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

From the Irish Independent (and fek their copyright – this is too important ). Other Bloggers, please link to this, or to any other Irish blogger’s post on this subject. e.g. The Swearing Lady; Twenty Major. If you are Irish, berate your local T.D.s and Senators to change the law now! If your are not [...]

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