darragh murray

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Archive for February, 2007

Maxine McKew. I love You.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Terrible Short Poet Alex “James Frain” Moss sends in this rather topical and contemporary ballad concerning former ABC reporter and presenter, Maxine McKew. Be warned! Its a bit of a tear-jerker.
“Maxine McKew
I love you,
Come into my house,
for a drink or two.
You’ve got foxy eyes,
and a toothy grin,
you’re running for the seat,
that John Howard’s in.
I remember [...]

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Writing a History Thesis - Weeks 5 & 6

Monday, February 26th, 2007

I’m presently losing track of which week I’m up to with regards to thesis study, and it looks like I may have miscounted. According to my spreadsheet where I keep track of the hours I spend on the thesis, I started my intensive journey on the 13th of January, and that makes today the end [...]

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Weeks three and four of thesis progress have been long indeed. They have been mixed with feelings of elation and hopelessness. Week three didn’t feature as many hours as I had hoped to put into research, however I did manage to get some high quality work done, or at least what I consider high quality. [...]

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Small Head, Big Head

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

“No man with a small head has ever been truly great.” - Dr. Charles Caldwell, 1833.

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Random Useful Things

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

A small page to put up some random useful applications and other related gadgets that make life easier.
Random Useful Things - Software
PDF Creator - the best free PDF printing software that I’ve found on the ‘Net. Outperforms even Adobe in some cases - click http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator.
Avast! Virus Scanner - Free virus scanner. Fairly good. Click http://www.avast.com/.
Notalon [...]

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Jihad Rap Shown at Terror Trial

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Link - http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21218452-2,00.html
One wonders if it is genius, or stupidity, to utilise a black American musical/cultural export to mock the ‘War on Terror’. One wonders if the rap genre was chosen for this reason, or perhaps for the reason that it takes little more than being able to speak really fast to be able to [...]

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