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		<title>Inside of Titanic rendered using Crysis 3 graphics engine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The James St pub crawl</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Christmas is just around the corner, my thoughts are turning towards a good pub crawl. For something completely different, how about a James St pub crawl? Having a look at google maps. Start with: Carrigans (yes yes I know it&#8217;s on Old Kilmainham road); then Kennys Lounge opposite the hospital; admire the nice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=272&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M &amp; L Szechuan Chinese Restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got taken here by a couple who were familiar with the place and have eaten there loads of times since. The location is great, if a little hard to find for the first time. The prices are superb value. As for the food, it&#8217;s the most authentic Chinese food I&#8217;ve had since I was actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=268&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Winding Stair restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were there before but I wasn&#8217;t feeling well at the time so we wanted to give the Winding Stair another shot and sad to say, it doesn&#8217;t really measure up. We went for the set menu. I had the pork chop main with chicken terrine starter. Herself had the lamb round main with asparagus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=266&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Splinter Cell in the Mediterranean</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody been playing this new game? I&#8217;m after getting stuck on one of the missions and I just can&#8217;t seem to get it right. Basically, I&#8217;m a super-soldier in the Israeli special forces equipped with more firepower than Robocop and more tech gear than the Apple product development lab. I&#8217;ve breezed through earlier missions, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=260&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Democracy &#8211; An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in July, I looked at the curious case of Ned O&#8217;Keeffe who has come up with a new and novel approach to winning elections. Under our current proportional representation system, we vote the people we most want in a dail seat in order of preference. We then get a situation where (in theory) 51% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=244&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes 9 and trashing iPod classics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case, you&#8217;re wondering what the hell this is all about. Link. The short version is that iTunes 9 is killing iPods, mainly iPod classics but there have been reports of dud Nanos as well and a mate reports a dud Shuffle. My sister is one of the unlucky people and her video iPod has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=246&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money saving tips &#8211; mobile phones</title>
		<link>http://gaiusc.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/money-saving-tips-mobile-phones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these recessionary times, it pays to watch the pennies and where they end up. One of the things that really jumped out at me from my bank statement was my monthly phone bill. This was around the same time as I was looking to change my phone and I looked at upgrade options. Needless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=241&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safari: a neat trick</title>
		<link>http://gaiusc.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/safari-a-neat-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open Safari and paste the following into the address bar: javascript:(function(){var d=0;setInterval(function(){document.body.style['-webkit-transform']=&#8217;rotate(&#8216;+ d +&#8217;deg)&#8217;;d+=1},10)}()); Thanks Zen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=239&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into The Wild: risk -&gt; opportunity</title>
		<link>http://gaiusc.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/into-the-wild-risk-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I intended this to be a spoiler-free review but it turned into something of a retrospective. There&#8217;s no major spoilers but if you want a completely &#8220;clean&#8221; review of the film, just stop here rest assured that it&#8217;s very very good. Every now and then, you watch a film on dvd at home and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gaiusc.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3322292&amp;post=229&amp;subd=gaiusc&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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