darragh murray

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Archive for October, 2008

A Quick Word on the North London Derby

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Well, the North London derby certainly was an entertaining game of football. For those who do not know, it ended as a four all draw, Tottenham somehow coming from behind to score two goals in the dying minutes of the match, after Arsenal being four-two up.
The atmosphere was electric, and the game was a [...]

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North London Derby

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

It is always seems funny to me when daydream-like boyish aspirations suddenly seem oh so much closer to full realisation. Today is one of these days.
As you may or may not known I am a great fancier of Arsenal football club. You might not be wrong in assuming that I moved to London to be [...]

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I was doing some recordset juggling in vba and out of habit I usually close every object I open up explicit using the .close method on that object.
For example if I open up a database using something like this
Dim db as dao.database
Set db = currentDb
I will close it at the end of the function or [...]

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Happy Birthday Wenger

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Oh great day! Happy birthday to Arsene Wenger!

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Oh, I liek Quotes

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

I love the google quotes widget.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day [...]

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Nightclubs, eh?

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Clubs are such insufferable dungeons of misery, the inmates have to take mood-altering substances to make their ordeal seem halfway tolerable. This leads them to believe they “enjoy” clubbing. They don’t. No one does. They just enjoy drugs.
Drugs render location meaningless. Neck enough ketamine and you could have the best night of your life squatting [...]

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