Val’s Kitchen has done a nice review of Donkey Ford’s – the famous eatery in Limerick

Last of the summer whines
and to find it – here is a map
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At times it must have felt like this:

A German teenager accidentally climbed out of a fourth-floor window and fell 10 meters to the ground where he kept on sleeping, albeit with a broken arm and leg – German Sleepwalker Steps Out of 4th-Floor Window
Vista has a bug/feature – [...]This throttling effect occurs when someone launches Windows Media Player and tries to copy [...]

Bebo adds RSS feeds and Conor spots a clue in the URL
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Spotted by Damien Mulley in the Examiner and then Damien Blake(FF Cllr.) in the Donegal News
How it works:
1. The victim receives a cheque and lodges it to their own bank account – because the scammer cannot open one….
2. The victim thinks the cheque has cleared after 1 to 5 days, takes a commission and wires [...]

Via Stewart Curry – video about content-aware, dynamic image resizing – http://tinyurl.com/2fhcua
Does Vista forcing reboots? (under certain common settings)
Via Walter – Orphaned Projects
Via blognation DownloadMusic.ie based around independent Irish artists but also makes novel use of SMS
A bad day for Ubuntu servers – problems with “the network cards and later kernels”
skiing ostrich

Via Brian Greene
“there are people who will forever feel I suppose that Shannon is under threat and some of them will be doing that for political reasons” Tony Killeen TD on RTE before the election – fast forward to 13:09 MP3
Note how I’ve refused to put Aer Lingus in the title. That’s because the company [...]

Welcome to Dysfuncional Ireland written by Joey.

Colm Burke MEP for Ireland South (Munster minus Clare) has a new website and blog to keep everyone up to date with his work in the EU, having taken over from Simon Coveney
We were privileged enough to be invited to Inniscara for a party organised by Colm and his super assistant Catrina
Near the [...]

German banks have had to make €17.3 billion ($23.3 billion) available to the Saxony state bank (.de) to cover Dublin-based affiliate/conduit Sachsen LB Europe(.ie). That affiliate (or off-balance-sheet investment vehicle) had a fund called “Ormond Quay” which had invested in “asset backed commercial papers” and got into liquidity problems. It has two other funds also [...]