When we originally got the cats from our friends in Clare, Ciaran said they were trained assassins and the carnage has been pretty regular this past week. The capper however, was this young hawk. The angle makes the cat look a bit bigger, but trust me, this was a big bird. Look at those claws!

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*Spoilers* OK, so I didn’t say a thing about the iPhone (which may be because they aren’t in Europe) so I will blog about the final episode of The Sopranos (delayed as well for an Irish release.) Somehow, I managed not to know how the series ended, except some rumblings of “controversy” and that Hillary [...]

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The perfect pint of Guinness is an alchemy of many elements. I don’t claim to be an expert, but there was plenty of discussion in each of the pubs I visited and after 30 pints over a thirty day period, I feel a bit better qualified to make some judgments. Temperature: To me, this has [...]

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Well, the good news is that I’ve learned a lot about making nice bootable backups of my MACs. The bad news is that I didn’t have one in place for my work laptop (which really had the most current data of all my machines). It’s not going to happen again and Gabe and Lisa have [...]

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After you finish reading this post, back up your computer. Stop what you are doing and just consider what would happen tomorrow if all your data disappeared. Not only your data, but all that time you spent customising your machine exactly the way you’d like. All those photos. All that music. All that time installing [...]

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