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I visited the restaurant La Boca in central Belfast yesterday and was extremely impressed. The airy, brightly-coloured casual restaurant had a small menu but excellent food and at a splendid price. Maybe I've been in Dublin too long but I was astounded by the price: £10 for a starter and main course. However, […]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A57_road
Either this is a deeply insightful pastiche on the worst of Wikipedia articles (complete with "This article does not cite any references or sources.") or it really is a new depth in Wikipedia. Whatever it is, it’s terribly amusing.
In evaporation, the more energetic (i.e. warmer) a water molecule on the surface of an object is, the higher its chance of it turning to vapour.
The higher the wind speed across this surface, the faster these warm molecules will be blown away.
This is the concept of evaporative cooling.
The same applies when a company starts to […]
I wrote a few months ago about how Ryanair had started charging for web check-in despite it being a cost saving for them — and how this was not the Ryanair that I understood. Well, I was proved right last week when they switched surcharges. Now you have to pay if you want to check […]
I am no longer even nearly homeless, having just started renting an appartment. Because I'd be lonely on my own, I'm sharing with another Googler, Carlo Contavalli.
Here’s the weird thing. We were chatting over lunch and it turns out that, unbeknown to either of us, we are both Debian Developers. Only in Google could this […]
I have long felt that many airport security measures are just for show — "security theatre", as Bruce Schneier puts it — but I now have some anecdotal evidence to back it up.
I fly frequently: from Dublin to my family in Durham, and I make the occasional transatlantic flight too. Before I realised it last […]
I don't generally post whilst annoyed — which could explain why my postings are generally of a whimsical nature and (hint hint) don't get enough comments. However, this post is different.
I am angry that people see fit to write things for public consumption or wide dissemination when they obviously have little regard for the language […]
I'm back in Dublin, trying madly to lose the Californian mannerisms. Starting sentences with 'So …' is the most pernicious. It’s excellent to be back; there’s a great sense of camaraderie here, and people are easier to approach. It’s also good to have easy access to daylight — even though there’s less of it, I […]
I've taken to using the overflow car park at work, which is so large it can be seen from space!. It also happens to be a whole two minute walk from the office. "What has this to do with the price of Peruvian cheese?!", I hear you cry. Well, as it happens, we have a […]
I'm off to sunny California at the end of the week, as part of what my boss calls my "Google Indoctr^WTraining". This caused a book crisis, because all the books I had out of the library needed to be returned and I was in the middle of one of them.
So I went into WH Smith […]