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Guardian Unlimited :Newsblog
By: seoras on: Jul 4,2005 In: NewsLooks like George Bush might be willing to talk seriously about getting rid of agricultural subsidies, in the EU and the US. No More Beating About the Bush….
www.g8bikeride.org.uk
By: seoras on: Jul 2,2005 In: NewsGet on Yer bike to Gleneagles………………….. www.g8bikeride.org.uk
Gleneagles Demo – G8 Alternatives
By: seoras on: Jul 2,2005 In: NewsGleneagles Demo – G8 Alternatives
BBC NEWS |Thousands flock to poverty march
By: seoras on: Jul 2,2005 In: NewsThe march in Edinburgh to highlight the make povery history campaign, as reported by the BBC. BBC NEWS | UK | Thousands flock to poverty march Some protesters in Edinburgh coralled by police who claim they were violent.
Just finished watching the Live8 concert here in the UK. Whilst events of this kind in themselves don’t change anything they can however help to raise awareness. As far as we know humans evolved in Africa so it’s about time we recognised the the importance of the birthplace of humanity and did everything in our [...]
Google & Gmail
By: seoras on: Mar 15,2005 In: NewsFound this cheat sheet on Google to help with searches, always useful as I can never remember these operators. If you have a GMail account here’s an excellent tool that allws you to uses your 1Gb allocated storage as a virtual drive. Files are stored in your Gmail account as email attachments. If you don’t [...]
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
By: seoras on: Mar 11,2005 In: NewsDouglas Adams was in in advanced talks about bringing the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to the big screen when he died suddenly in 2001. However the film has finally made it and will be released in the UK on 29th April. There is an excellent trailer on the official site, but there’s an even better bonus trailer narrated by Stephen Fry. The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy started life as a radio programme, which was excellent. Douglas also wrote a series of brilliant books. There was a BBC TV series in 1981 based on the first 6 radio shows, but this was rather low budget (ala Dr. Who), however, the books were fantastic. From what I’ve seen of the film it looks really good although there does seem to be a certain amount of Americanisation, which is to be expected since the backers are probably American. I really hope they have managed to retain the unique Douglad Adams humor in the film.
MySQL and PHP
By: seoras on: Sep 26,2004 In: NewsI recently managed to get the server for my work web site upgraded to handle PHP and MySQL. I am used to MS Access databases and so MySQL was quite new to me and I found the administration of the database through MyPhpAdmin quite foreign. I searched for some free MySQL admin tools and found [...]
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This is the personal web site of Seòras, pronounced Shaw-russ, Gaelic for George. I'm from Aberdeen (Scotland),I'm a scientist, union activist, researcher, web designer, photographer, cyclist, hill walker, guitarist & father.
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