Monthly Archives: April 2009

Wall-E Case Mod

Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 by Peter

A friend of mine emailed this to me this morning. It took 18 days of work, but it’s all kinds of  awesome! More photos: http://englishrussia.com/?p=2487

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A Quick Favour

Posted on Saturday, April 25, 2009 by Peter

My friend (and one-time American Football team-mate) Emmet Ryan has been nominated for this year’s Irish Internet Association NetVisionary Awards in the Journalist category. When he’s not doing whatever it is that journalists do, Emmet also runs marathons for a … Continue reading →

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Installing Arch Linux on the EEE 701

Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 by Peter

Before I went travelling I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my EEE because I wanted something relatively stable and that I was familiar with. Now that I’m back, I want to hack around with it a bit so, so yesterday I … Continue reading →

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Revoking My Old Public Key

Posted on Sunday, April 12, 2009 by Peter

A few months ago, my laptop suffered a filesystem crash and I had to perform a complete re-install. I had back-ups. No big deal. However, while I was in Australia, the back-up of my GPG key was on an inaccessible … Continue reading →

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Mac Mini WiFi Trouble

Posted on Saturday, April 11, 2009 by Peter

One the most common arguments I hear from my Mac-loving friends is that OS X is better than linux because it “just works”. Bollocks! I’ve just spent the last day and a half trying to get my 2nd generation Mac … Continue reading →

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Osaka Castle

Posted on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Peter

Osaka is only about half an hour from Kyoto by train, so we decided to spend today there and visit Osaka Castle. It was first built in the late 1500′s, and even though it has been rebuilt and restored a … Continue reading →

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Pictures of Kyoto

Posted on Monday, April 6, 2009 by Peter

I went for a walk around Kyoto today and visited Nijo Castle and Kinkaku-ji (The Golden Pavilion). I took some pictures.

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High-Speed Train to Kyoto

Posted on Sunday, April 5, 2009 by Peter

I’m lucky enough that I’ve never been subjected to the UK rail network for more than a couple of hours, but still, I try to avoid it where possible! The Japanese rail network is totally different! It’s spotlessly clean (even … Continue reading →

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Wandering around Akihabara

Posted on Saturday, April 4, 2009 by Peter

Akihabara is Tokyo’s “Electric Town”, and as a self-confessed electronics geek, this is somewhere I wanted to spend a good bit of time. Akihabara is the sort of place that could easily take up an entire day. I wandered around … Continue reading →

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Watching ASIMO

Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2009 by Peter

Today we went to Miraikan (Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) and were just in time to see ASIMO come out of his* cupboard and run around for a bit! ASIMO was only out for about 15 minutes, … Continue reading →

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