Went to Mullingar last night to see Syrys, the lead singer is a friend of a friend. Unlike most ‘friend of a friend’ bands, Syrys were actually good! Nice loud Rock, with a hint of Gothiness. http://www.syrys.com/ has a couple of mp3’s. They are playing a couple of gigs this month in Dublin and Dundalk […]

A few weeks back I started talking to a friend about something. He stopped me before I finished the first sentence to tell me that he knew already, he had read about it in my girlfriends blog. Tonight my girlfriend went out drinking with some folks. We usually agree to at least let each other

Downloaded the SunRay3 software for linux on Friday night with the intention of getting it working over the weekend. It didn’t work straight out of the box on my SuSE 9 machine so I thought I’d upgrade to 9.1 with the online update tool in yast2. Now I have never done this before. And it’s

I own an LXD55 10″SN telescope from Meade Instruments. It’s a fine telescope, big mirror, decent enough mount (just), goto, tracking… However it is on the cheaper end of their catalogue thanks to the Schmidt Newtonian design – spherical primary mirror with a corrector plate at the front, this is cheaper to manufacture than their