darragh murray

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Archive for July, 2008

Pet hate

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Pet hate: The use of acronyms in articles without explanation of what the acronym means.
Yeah, WTF is with that?

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Yes, wordpress is being annoying.
I was having a problem with publishing new posts after upgrading to the latest wordpress. I would write a post, hit publish, and the post.php would appear, BLANK. No real explanation was given. I did notice that the post I had selected to publish turned up as a draft. Trying to [...]

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Zebras are doing it for themselves.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Former Brisbane based band The Zebras seem to have recorded a few new tunes. And what tunes they are! As far as I can see (and read), they’re off a new EP. You can check out the songs “Make It Stop”, “A Day on Black Mountain Road” and “Push Our Way to the Front” at [...]

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Boris - Electric

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

There is nothing like a bit of Boris on a Monday morning.

And while searching for the Boris song, I came across this HILARIOUS japanese guy adding death-growl vocals to some electro-metal song. He is so funneh.

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History, yet again.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

It is sometimes that weird how ones brain works. On a whim, I started looking into part-time history degrees offered in UK, and then began searching for a copy of my honours thesis that I completed last year, and realised it was exactly a year to the date in which I received the rather pleasing [...]

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Bowie done by the ‘Fields

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I’m always interested in hearing a cover - some can be bad (i.e. Celine Dion’s covering AC/DC), some can be strange (Of Montreal covering “Know Your Onion” by the Shins), and some can sound as good or better than the original (Elliot Smith’s divine cover of the Kinks’s “Waterloo Sunset”).
You can listen to what I [...]

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