Just back from a trip home to Ireland and am pooped. Got up at 6am (1am EST) and drove up to Dublin Airport from Donegal Town via Omagh. Got there about 10.30am, would have been earlier but the car was running on fumes and I had to stop for petrol. As I was whizzing down [...]

On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can’t kill it nor change to a console.
On Debian and [...]

I wrote this up for a friend who is arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport and whom has never been to Boston before. She has to get from Terminal E (Aer Lingus) to Terminal B (US Airways). It’s pretty simple, and I thought this might be of use to someone else:
It’s not a big airport, but [...]

A very unique design. It’s supposed to be a ruined house on a hill in Ireland.

You walk around the base of the memorial, towards the water.

Go through a short tunnel, which has speakers playing the voices of people talking about the famine (including Bono).

And your in a ruined house.

You walk out the front door of [...]

Some lad plotted all the air traffic in the US on one day and it looks likes art:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2007/11/24_hours_of_air_traffic_never_1.html

Written by my friend Helen, and with input from meself:

http://www.canadianliving.com
By Helen Racanelli and Mick Timony
Traveling to Boston for a vacation, either for business or with the kids? From Montreal it’s about a six hour drive, from Toronto, about 9 hours. Here are some ideas of what to do, where to go, and where to stay [...]

Neat Easter Egg hidden in Google Earth:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-earth-easter-egg-flight.html

How to see this feature. Make sure you have Google Earth 4.2. Open the application, click on the globe and then press Ctrl+Alt+A.
Works on Google Earth for Linux too.

Went to the Howe Caverns yesterday was a fun day. Was 90f/32C above ground and a chilly 52F/11C below ground!

It was pretty cool!

Popular Mechanics think the safest seats in a plane accident are at or near the back:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4219452.html

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Now that’s a surprise, seems keeping passangers from taking lighters on airplanes is a waste of time and resources:
http://www.nytimes.com

… authorities have decided to stop enforcing a two-year-old rule against taking cigarette lighters on airplanes, concluding that it was a waste of time to search for them before passengers boarded.
The ban was imposed at the insistence [...]