Archive for March, 2007

We’re not Brazil, but we’re getting closer

(Stole that headline from the Belfast Telegraph)Video: British Broadcasting Corporation © MMVIIElsewhere on the world wide wonderland…

BBC Sport - Northern Ireland goal hero Healy targets finals
Belfast Telegraph -We’re not Brazil, but we’re getting closer
Everything Ulster - Sweden? Victory? Top of the table? Speechless!
Irish Football Association - ‘HEAL’ DO FOR [...]

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The European Union - together since 1975

“By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN COMMUNITY. The Community shall have as its task, by establishing a common market and an economic and monetary union and by implementing common policies……..“
Fifty years ago today the leaders of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sat down and signed [...]

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Happy St Patrick’s Day!

“An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman each order a Guinness in a pub. Upon being served, each finds a fly in his beer. Repulsed, the Englishman sends his back. The Scotsman gently flicks the fly out of his mug and begins drinking. The Irishman, carefully lifts the fly up by its wings and screams, [...]

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Photoblog - East Strand, Portrush

Daytrip to Portrush with David and Jáníne. I should really have been revising, but it was a nice sunny day!
Keithout.

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Five things you may not have known about me

CyberScribe over at The Bog Standard Blog tagged me to list five things you may not have known about me. This might take a long time to think about…

I have just recently got my placement year sorted. I’ve got me a Web Design placement at Slemish College in Ballymena Hi!1.
In 2001 I took part in [...]

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Vote 2007 - The good and the bad.

THE GOOD

Ulster Says Yes
Anti-agreement Unionists/Republicans have been effectively blown out of the political waters.
Lo and behold - UK first for Alliance’s Anna
Anna Lo is the first Chinese woman to be elected to a legislative assembly in Europe.
Greens make assembly breakthrough
‘Bout time. The North Down councillor Brian Wilson received 2,839 FPVs.

THE BAD

McCartney voted out of [...]

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Ulster Folk and Transport Museum launch ‘Titanic’ website

No, it didn’t just launch a really big website (bet you didn’t see that one coming?). The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum has launched what it calls one of the most wide-ranging website ever dedicated to the RMS Titanic and its history.
There is a huge (or ‘titanic’) collection of contemporary photographs and designers drawings from [...]

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BBC content to appear on YouTube, legally.

The BBC has today started providing content on video community site YouTube. The Beeb will supply three channels on the site:

BBC
BBC Worldwide
BBC World (launch later in the year).

The BBC channel will provide content which is UK orientated , with no advertising. The second BBC Worldwide channel will provide content for an international audience and will [...]

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