April 23, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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This mightn’t be a big deal to most people but it’s a huge deal to me. If my parents hadn’t got me a ZX Spectrum in 1982, I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had. No exaggeration. Every single college … Continue reading
April 19, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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Given that this blog is six years old this week and we’ve started reminiscing about the good old days of Engineering in Merrion Street and Earlsfort Terrace, I’ve decided that it’s officially Nostalgia Week here at O’Neill Towers. Knarf reminded … Continue reading
April 17, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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17th April 2001, I got an account on this thing I probably heard about on Slashdot called Blogger. I just saw it as an easier way of keeping my personal homepage (which I think I started in 1996 on Indigo) … Continue reading
April 11, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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I was a bit sad today to read this from the UCD Alumni office: UCD will soon be saying goodbye to Earlsfort Terrace and completing the move to Belfield. Generations of students spent their university years at the Terrace and … Continue reading
January 17, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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My Dad kindly voted for this blog in several categories in the Blog Awards earlier. He mailed me to say that it reminded him of my Granny (Mary O’Neill) who voted for Dev eight times in the 1932 elections on … Continue reading
January 6, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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We discovered over Christmas that you can in fact put 5 children, 2 adults and all their stuff in a Zafira+Roofbox and go from Cork to Kilkenny to Cavan to Cork. Hurrah. On our trip back from Cavan on the … Continue reading
January 3, 2007
by Conor O'Neill
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So Haydn tagged me. Five things you don’t know about me eh? Apart from my Spaghetti Hoop fetish? 1. I was Junior Irish Archery Champion in 1980. Not as impressive as it sounds. Three of us in the competition and … Continue reading
July 14, 2006
by Conor O'Neill
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This gave me goosebumps: Microdrives You have no idea, none, how much I wanted a microdrive as a teenage geek. I would have happily chopped off my little finger yakuza-style to get one. And this guy, the luckiest man alive, … Continue reading
June 6, 2006
by Conor O'Neill
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Nick Humphries has done it again.The 1986 edition of “The Your Sinclair Rock n Roll Years TV Show” was released for download recently. All nostalgic ZX Spectrum fans should grab it and watch 8 minutes of great memories. Non-Speccy fans … Continue reading
March 18, 2006
by Conor O'Neill
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One of the business blogs I read is Fred Wilson over at “A VC“. He regularly recommends music worth listening to. The other day he mentioned Black Sabbath Vol 4. Apart from watching Ozzy on the TV and thinking that … Continue reading