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Archive for July, 2008
First night… African Journey Pt. 3
I woke with a start. All I could hear was barking, all around. Dogs, moving around in the streets and roads and constantly barking. It took a long time for me to get back to sleep. I read later on that dogs are a huge problem in Nairobi, especially at night when they travel in [...]
Read MoreArriving in Kenya… African Journey Pt. 2
View part 1 here if you haven’t already…
The flight went well – I love flying, and its even more enjoyable with BA – and with the banter and a good book and some in flight entertainment, the nine hours seemed quite short… well as short as they could be. With the earlier delay I was heading [...]
Heading out to Kenya… African Journey Pt. 1
During the summer of 2006, due to my beautiful girlfriend working in a hospital in Nairobi, I had the chance to head out to East Africa when she was finished working so we could go on safari and do some travelling around in the region.
The trip to Kenya started in reality about 6 weeks before [...]
iPhone release day – Failure by Apple…
Well. My iPhone was purchased this morning. I changed my account from 3 to o2 and sat back ready for the previously mentioned greatness.
Only I couldn’t. Activation time came and so I connect my Phone to my Mac but alas – it doesn’t work! Some error about the iTunes store and my network. So no iPhone for me today. There’s a [...]
Countdown to iPhone 2.0
Countdown to the real iPhone for us Irish users that is. A lot of users who would normally jump on the original iPhone(me included) have been holding off because we knew this was coming… And on Friday the 11th of July we get ourselves the 3G iPhone. Edge was never really going to cut it [...]
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