darragh murray

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Archive for February, 2008

The Dogs of Santiago

Friday, February 29th, 2008

History says that the South American continent fell to the swords and faith of the Spanish and Portuguese. History is quite clearly wrong. Eons have past with little or no recognition of the true rulers of South America and yes, my friends, I refer to the almighty dog. I write this from the city of [...]

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Santiago, Chile

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I´m currently bunking down in Santiago - the capital of Chile - been a bit haywire at the moment, I´ll have more to report soon. Jetlag ++.

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Save the Regent!

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

It has been in the news of late that the Regent Cinema in Queen Street, Brisbane, is under threat from EVIL developers, wanting to build a giant monolith atop the nearly 90 year old theatre/cinema.
While I don’t often go the Regent, I oppose any proposed redevelopment due to the fact that the developers are claiming [...]

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You’re on top of the world again!

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

All questions of international diplomacy, crisis and law should be settled by a eurovision-style talent contest.
“You want your independence? You must out-sing me first!”

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My Big Trip - 2008.

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Well, after a small hiccup with servers, my site is back up and running.
If you didn’t know already, I’m a bit over a week away from hitting the travel trail again – this time taking in South America, the states, and back to Europe. From time to time I’ll attempt to regale with tales [...]

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Programming an form filter in Ms Access is simple enough. Assume you have a combo box with two values - TRUE or FALSE - on some sort of boolean control. You want the filter to set this value to TRUE when the combo box reads TRUE, and vice versa. Usually you would simply put some [...]

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