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Archive for July, 2008

Snippets #19

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

One of the plugins entered for the WordPress Plugin Competition is Sermon Management. Yeah, yeah, yeah – who gives a flying fox. No one. Except PaddyAnglican maybe, but he’s on Bloggeryspottery and can’t use it. But here’s the thing: In the promo it states one of its aims is to make Wordpress the CMS of [...]

Publicans and Pharisees

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I don’t know much about Pharisees. Maybe they’re the folks that make the telescopes.
But as a stereotypical Irish male, I know all there is to know about Publicans. Stingy robbing bastards the lot of them[no citation needed]. The bastard that owns my local has rubber pockets in his jeans for robbing soup.
Down through the years [...]

Too many ideas

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Do you ever get spells when your mind races? So fast you can’t keep track of the new thoughts and ideas popping up every second? It’s like being on speed. Take notes, you say. What? I’ve got things scribbled on milk cartons! What I should have is a Dictaphone. Can I use your Dictaphone? No [...]

The NCT

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen of the brewery, I give you, the N-C-T. The National Car Test. Taaa daaa!
A test introduced in 2000 offering us safer, cleaner motoring. It appears from the NCT website it also offers whiter teeth and prettier children. That’s what we all want, right? To be able to drive our beautiful offspring around [...]

Green energy – don’t be blinded

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Burning oil is bad. Burning coal is bad. Travellers setting themselves on fire in Coolock is bad for the environment too.
What we need are alternative sources of energy. Girls Aloud chained up in the basement rubbing their thighs together is an option I would like to look at.
But I’m hesitant. What hidden dangers are there? [...]

Mary Hanafin to implement 1980s policies

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Back in the 80s things were tough. Times were rotten and Robin Hood was a state-of-the-art industrial estate. Christy Moore sang Peter Hames’ Ordinary Man and stirred anger in us all. Countless thousands were unemployed.
That’s not totally correct – they were indeed counted. Counted and parsed by gender, age, education, you name it. They would [...]

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