orthogons Aeonity Blog

Happy birthday to meeeee

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:58:10 -0500

Whee, 23, one year closer to the grave. I think I preferred being 22... Hey, at least I'm employed, have a great girlfriend, a nice house with a posh address in a good neighborhood, and relative financial independence.... Read More

\"Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror\"

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:11:44 -0500

"Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror," proclaims the headline. "Ah Jesus, fuck off, you paranoid fuckin dweebs," proclaims the pundit. This is just another node in a seemingly neverending string of paranoid delusional wannabe-postapocalyptic hype put out by t... Read More

London go boom

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:06:15 -0500

Terrorism goes multinational:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm... Read More

Dell. <-- note the period

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:14:07 -0500

I'm hired, by Dell Direct in Cherrywood (suburb of Dun Laoghaire, suburb of Dublin). Granted, there are still two points of failure: a) references not, for some reason, coming through for me; b) work permit being denied. It's really inconvenient being an American trying to work in Ireland. Yet another obstacle that must be surmounted...... Read More

Bonfire night!

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:38:11 -0500

A many-thousands-of-years-old pagan tradition that somehow managed to escape Catholicism, or just extremely ingrained Irish pyromania? You be the judge. That's not mist out there, that's smoke... http://community.webshots.com/album/377141061KEvtNA ... Read More

Xilinx?

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:02:38 -0500

Got called by a recruiter (!-- that's never happened) this morning about the Co. Dublin branch of an American company called Xilinx wanting a UNIX/Linux helpdesk tech. I made it through the grilling session, so he's forwarded my CV to them & I'll hear back Mondayish. He seemed slightly desperate. Apparently, they aren't scared of my 'Stamp 2' stud... Read More

Yay, I passed!

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:25:19 -0500

I got an e-mail from the Department today confirming that I will, in fact, be graduating with the rest of my class, this September, recieving the degree of a Bachelor of Arts in Music and English (but in Irish and Latin). Still no word on what sort of honours I've managed, but I'm assuming it's some form of a second (mostly thanks to Paul Everett's... Read More

Consummatum est.

Sun, 15 May 2005 10:27:47 -0500

There, college is finished. Crap! I don't want to have to get a job! Bloody hell.... Read More

More things should explode

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:16:09 -0600

That's what I have to say.... Read More

The Pope loves break-dancers

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:02:23 -0600

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/26/pope.breakdancers.ap/index.html... Read More