Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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One blog created 'every second'
With all these new blogs, will there be the readership to support them, or do bloggers care whether they have readers or not? In its latest State of the Blogosphere report, it said the number of blogs it was tracking now stood at more than 14.2m blogs, up from 7.8m in March. It suggests, on…
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Photos of Kenmare
Always interesting to find a headstone with one’s family name on it. Or this holy well beside the beach, with trinkets and beads tied to the holly bush above it. One note put there with a 2p piece on it had a wish from children asking St Finian if they could fly someday. Maybe I…
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3 new books
I have 3 more books that I will eventually get round to reading: Burke, Jason Al-Qaeda, Penguin 2004 Sachs, Jeffrey The End of Poverty, Penguin 2005 Reid, T.R The United States of Europe, 2004 Penguin
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Sheen Falls Hotel
I stopped off in a lovely hotel called the Sheen Falls Lodge on the Glengariff side of Kenmare in Kerry.. What a lovely area, so quiet and secluded! Well worth a visit.
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New look
After seeing Rymus’ blog I decided to go with the same theme. Hope you all like the new look. Does anyone have a suggestion for the headline picture? And how do I make my archives list shorter? Perhaps a drop down thingy?
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3 goes live in Ireland
I might wait for the PAYG version of 3, but given their performance in th UK I am tempted to move. The lack of 3G coverage doesn’t really bother me, its the calls and texts coverage I would be more worried about, and apparently that coverage is reasonably good. And 3 will soon be offering…
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Japan plans mind-boggling number-cruncher
Now will this computer one day sit on my desktop? Japan has revealed plans to build a supercomputer so staggeringly powerful that it will be five times swifter than the 500 fastest systems on the planet today – combined. The supercomputer will boast a peak performance of 10 petaflops and should be completed in 2011,…
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Shuttle returns to space
So Discovery made it, but some debris appeared to miss damaging any parts of the shuttle. I remember posting about the aftermath of the disaster, it is great to see the shuttle back up, even if the shuttle program expires in 5 years time.
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A comment from a source
Given the recent controversy one of my ‘sources’, has asked to put his views on here. Speaking as one of the âsourcesâ? for some of Gavin’s stories from London and in particular from the London Underground (LUL) side of things I take exception to the remarks made by fmk. I could go on all day,…
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On sources and rumours
In light of FMK’s much commented upon remarks I guess I should respond, given that my blog has been implicated, and complained about. I guess I should quote the remarks, but as Colm noted, none of these complaints are personal. Here is the Yahoo Groups comment: Yesterday, Gavin informed his readers that “sources” had reliably…
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