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15-inch PowerBook reaches End-Of-Life...

Apple this week announced shipment of their new MacBook Pro range of Intel-powered portable computers. The MacBook Pro range debuted at the January MacWorld 2006 conference in San Fransisco with expected shipping times of February. This later slipped due to a processor upgrade from the initially announced 1.67GHz Intel CoreDuo processor to a new 1.83GHz processor that promises speed increases of up to 4 times that of...
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Croeso i Caerdydd...

Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, is known the world over for its feature-rich battleground of sport, the Millennium Stadium. But this city has so much more to offer than a world class rugby pitch and a worthy adversary in any rugby tournament – Cardiff has a passionate population rich in culture and diverse in nature. Cardiff is situated in the south of the country near to the Vale of Glamorgan. Although I passed...
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Why take the bus?!...

I’m setting off for the wonderful city of Cardiff in South Glamorgan in Wales today. As if to prove my earlier point about Ryanair, I probably wouldn’t be taking this route if it weren’t for the low fares airline. Booking the trip just 3 weeks ago netted me a return flight to the Welsh capital for a meagre €75.00 – a pittance when compared with the cost of the flight today! Having hit the financial...
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Be My Valentine…...

Valentine’s Day is for many what Christmas is to the Holidays – another feature on a calendar that allows for all manner of foolish doings and giggles. Marked as an international day of love and romance, so many of us are being carried into this demesne as fawns of the commercialisation of the world thanks to the innovation of the US that touches all our lives. Love is something many writers and poets all...
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Dispatches: Ryanair Caught Napping...

Channel 4 tonight aired the documentary that has caught Ryanair off guard. Titled Caught Napping, it suggests through video and audio documentary footage taken on-site by undercover reporters that in the pursuit of lower fares and high profits, Ryanair has become complacent with regard to issues of safety of aircraft and passengers, cabin crew fatigue and flight deck rostering. Ryanair hadn’t seen this documentary...
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Persecuted Philosophy...

I have a very mixed and modal philosophy each time I wake every morning. Some people call them mood swings – I call them approaches to life. See, every day is in itself unique and each place you visit takes the uniqueness of that day and turns it to monotony. But my philosophy for the past few months and years has been that of a simple approach that requires definition in order to fully understand it’s entailment. My...
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Viva Espa...

It’s been a little over a week since I departed the Republic of Ireland in search of a friend of mine in the northern city of Santiago de Compostella, in sunny Spain. Having taken a highly complicated route to the Iberian Peninsula, taking in 3 aircraft flights and a number of taxi connections, I arrived comfortably in the airy and quiet airport in one of the Spanish capitals of pilgrimage. Aer Arann ferried me...
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