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22 of us went to Shikinejima for the weekend. The weather was good for a change. Santa Belgica organised a trip to Shikinejima island. We met at Hamamatsu harbour on Friday evening and hopped on the ship at 11pm. Sebastian’s and Eddie’s love songs kept the girls away. We landed at 7am in the middle [...]

We had a picnic down by the river and watched the Fireworks. There were fireworks in Ireland when Meath and Dublin met in the Gaelic football Leinster championship final and Cormac got his photo in the e-papers like the Independant and even in the Denver Gaels. BATTLE ROYALE . . . Dublin’s Ian Robertson is [...]

Went back to Ireland for two weeks summer holidays. Saw Mike Oldfield in concert in Wembley Arena, and then again in the Point in Dublin. We went back to Ireland for the summer holidays. On the way we stopped in Wales to visit Fiachra and family for a few days. The weather was great – [...]

Want some music to surf to? Try some Incantations Tubular Bells When he was only 17 years old, Mike Oldfield composed ‘Tubular Bells’, which was #1 everywhere it was released. Tubular Bells was released May 25th, 1973 It was used as the soundtrack music to the horror movie ‘The Exorcist’. ‘Tubular Bells’ spent over 5 [...]

Started playing Everquest. Hiro came over and showed me the basics. It looks cool because it’s in 3D… like a mixture of UO and Quake. I’m not sure if I like it yet, but it’s taken over from all the other games I used to play. Dahi Genjutsu Human Wizard of the 52nd Burnt Hand [...]

Today I tried to get my recordable CD working again. I’m running out of room on my hard disks so I thought I’d copy them to CD. The recorder software which came with my drive was outdated so I downloaded the upgrades of DirectCD and EasyCD on the Adaptec pages. I also upgraded the firmware [...]

Last updated: 17th February 1999 This is a sample of Internet providers available in Japan. The rates below are for standard dial-up services. Most providers offer selection of different services which may increase or reduce the costs shown below. Check each providers service pages carefully to see what’s included in each package. Some charge extra [...]

If you don’t care what address your web pages are at, there are a number of free web page providers such as Geocities, Yahoo, MSN and 50Megs, to name but a few. Search for more at Yahoo If you want your web pages to be located at www.yourdomain.com, you’ll need a virtual hosting account. These [...]

I got tired of the green background on my old pages. I reckon it was the reason I never updated them. I decided today to start again and make a sort of journal of projects I’m working on and interesting pages I find. First I’m going to try organising my photo albums.