darragh murray

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Archive for January, 2008

Fact#34: The only thing I hate more than genocide is ironing.
Over the past few days, whenever I log into my facebook account or sign into msn messenger, I have noticed the increased number of people with tags attached to their names exclaiming their disbelief that Heath Ledger has passed away.
Well, I have news for these [...]

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Glen Hansard for the Oscars

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Well, Glen Hansard of Irish band The Frames has been nominated (along with Marketa Irglova) for an academy award in the category of ‘Best Song’ for “Falling Slowly” from the film Once.
Not my favourite Hansard tune to be honest, but it will be great if he won it as it will mean that I have [...]

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Spunk Records 10 Year Show

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Well, I’m going to the Spunk records 10-year anniversary show in Bangalow on Monday the 21st of January. It’s a pretty incredible bill primarily due to Jens Lekman and Spoon playing. Jack Ladder, Holly Throsby, and Andrew Bird are also playing on the bill. Spunk have promised another international act, presumably who is one of [...]

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Elevator Blues

Monday, January 14th, 2008

For some unknown reason, one of my absolute pet peeves is overhearing somewhat empty conversations in elevators. Monday is the worse, where collegues sit and talk about their rather uninspiring weekends spent doing rather mundane house alterations and wandering the aisles at Bunnings warehouse. Perhaps it is jealousy that these people seem to be leading [...]

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Well, according to the New Zealand Prime Minister.
Sir Edmund is dead! And the New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark had this to say.
“Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus.”
Hrm, the original meaning of the word Colossus is defined as an ‘exceptionally large statue’, i.e [...]

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Here’s a quick tip with regards to report, and to a lesser extent, form design. Many times when you’re design Ms Access reports, often you will come across spatial problems, where you simply trying to fit too many controls (usually textboxes) on a report - even when you’re designing in landscape mode.
Two extremely handy [...]

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