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Okay as mentioned in a previous post, I installed Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, giving it 10GB, leaving 50GB for Windows XP. All seemed well until I tried booting into XP this evening and found that not only was NTLDR gone, but the whole 50GB partition (the C: drive) had become corrupted, meaning that Windows was essentially fucked. Ubuntu still happily booted and worked fine though, clearly oblivious to the mess it had made.

I’ve now reset it back to one single partition and am mid-way through re-installing Windows.

Just as well everything important was stored on an external hard drive. The waste of time re-installing all my apps is just going to be a pain in the arse though.

Likely won’t be updating the blog (much) over the weekend… although I WILL be keeping an eye on offensive/rude comments and deleting them. You know who you are…

If I’m going to play with Ubuntu again, it won’t be in a dual-boot situation - or, at least, if it is - it won’t be using GRUB and the two systems wont be sharing the same physical hard drive!

As Michele says, Google desktop is now available for Linux (download here) - now that I’ve at least partially ported over (gave it 10GB on my hard drive - still dual-booting with XP) to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I’m looking for reasons to make it my primary O/S of choice. Feel free to give me suggestions of great programs to install in Ubuntu…

Meanwhile, I used to be a fan of what they call ’sports entertainment’ so I’m still shocked by the ever-changing story of the double-murder & suicide of WWE wrestling superstar, Chris Benoit. Now it’s emerged that Benoit’s doctor’s office has been raided by officials - and, perhaps, more interestingly (much as I hate quoting Fox News), there’s the story that someone (possibly within the WWE) posted the story of Nancy Benoit’s murder “at least 13 hours before police in suburban Atlanta said they found her body along with her husband’s and that of their 7-year-old son”. The Wikipedia article itself has been disabled until July 8th because of the vandalism, but is a good source of information if you’re wondering what’s going on there.

Dublin is getting it’s own underground rail system by 2015. Believe it when you see it, eh?

Finally a few videos…

Via UnaRocks: After the interview that Paris Hilton gave with Larry King, which got more than it’s fair share of media coverage, MSNBC News anchor, Mika Brzezinski ripped up the headline news story about her and refused to report on it. Brilliantly done! Frankly, more journalists should do the same. The less media coverage the stupid spoiled whore gets, the better!

I just watched Rocky Balboa (again) and now I’m can’t wait to see this:
(Warning: Extreme/bloody violence)

The Edge from U2… HE DANCES LIKE YOUR DA!:

Mock rockers Spinal Tap are reuniting for Live Earth. Now there’s a gig I’d like to go to!

Here’s me, driving home to Dundalk today along the M1 from Dublin …
and here’s the cars in front of me … (Note: pictures were taken quite safely and quickly with a mobile phone)

A minute or so after this picture was taken, the traffic slowed a bit and became more condensed together. There was a line of traffic at least 20 cars long sitting in the overtaking lane with only 2 or 3 cars in the left-hand lane in the same length of road. I can never, for the life of me, understand why people do that - sit in the overtaking lane while NOT overtaking! There should (at LEAST) be signs along the motorway saying “right-hand lane for overtaking ONLY” and more gardaí on the road enforcing it.

Later on, after I’d gotten past this - admittedly, by overtaking on the left (- or “undertaking” as it’s been referred to a couple of times on boards.ie) in a few cases, the traffic slowed down even further with a long line of cars going very slowly in the right-hand lane. The idiot at the front of this line of cars was holding a mobile phone to his head and was both driving slowly and wobbling a bit from side to side. He should have been pulled over and fined on the spot. And possibly kicked around a bit. Gah.

Once again, I believe we need more gardaí on the roads pulling over bad drivers who inconvenience and annoy other drivers. It’s all very well having the penalty points system - it has to be enforced.

Anway… rant over…

3. This is my blog. It’s not a high traffic site by any means, but it IS mine and I WILL delete any spam or rude/ignorant comments which appear and I’ll disable commenting if I feel it’s required. I don’t feel I need to explain myself for that and I honestly don’t see why I should care about any of these comments I delete or the opinions of the people who write them.

To correct my earlier post… Donncha O’Caoimh’s photo blog In-Photos.org IS nominated for the Photo Blog Awards - you can vote for him here.

Thanks to Donncha for pointing that out to me. I hadn’t voted yet