Month: September 2004
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Knockmealdown Mountains, Co. Waterford
I quite like this lake up in the Knockmealdown mountains, it is a pretty peaceful place. And I really like how these pictures are turning out. Apologies to those on dial-up, this picture is 250k in size. View image
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In the Caucasus, another crisis threatens: Neal Ascherson
Neal Ascherson writing in the IHT discusses the other problem in the Caucasus: Abkazia. While the world’s media has been focused on the school siege in North Ossetia, and the related Chechen problem, is has paid almost no attention to the brewing problems in either South Ossetia or Abkazia. Neal writes in depth about the…
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Wikipedia != Authoritative?
Slashdot covers some recent controversy about how reliable Wikipedia is. I have often wondered just how accurate some of the coverage is, and the fact that five errors inserted over five days and all of them stayed there until they were removed by the author at the end of the experiment, is pretty damning. But…
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Dubai's blue skies and white elephants
Peter Day for the BBC has a good long article on current goings on in the Gulf city of Dubai. Readers may know I have visited there on a few occassions, and plan to do so again this month. He covers it all pretty well, I am looking forward to seeing the new archway almost…
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Salih Brandt & Roisin Duffy
Salih Brandt, a former European spokesman for the Chechen government, made some curious remarks on This Week today. Roisin Duffy was even a little shocked. You can listen to him being interviewed here. But I have gone to the trouble of transcribing the most curious bit: Salih Brandt: In the background of this you have…
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High death toll in Russia siege
I have been following events in North Ossetia, as my readers know, I follow events in this region with a keen interest. South Ossetia was recently the scene of some skirmishes with Georgian troops, a situation that is likely to flare up again in the near future. It now seems that these Chechens in North…
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Old Chimney
Old Chimney:
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Ladder in tree
Ladder and rope in back garden
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Cobh Cathedral
The famous steeple:
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White flower
A test close up shot: