Assuming the answer is not aws eu-west-1....

www.blacknight.com are a native data centre services company.

Living for the Final 6 to be revealed

Sad to hear the passing of Moya Brennan.

Lots of mentions about the haunting melody of Harry's Game - a tune of the dark 80s

For me, her contribution to Saltwater by Chicane. Put our ancient language on the world dancefloor. It's post- GFA, Celtic Tiger era, an anthem of a thriving Ireland in 🌞

Legit searched for alternative options like getting my Spanish drivers licence, doing it up in Donegal or Carlingford, even taking up residency with cousins in Belfast ...

All options probably faster than waiting for the Tallaght test centre.

Checking where I am in the RSA Driving Test Queue ..... now It's even further into the summer before I can even look for a slot...

I really shouldn'tve gotten too close for comfort to that mini bus on my original driving test back in November :/

In my QA background, I confess, on occasion,I too ditched, closed the laptop, walked out the door at finishing time before actually running that smoke test I planned to run.

i can now forgive claude

🗑️

Claude code is great and all but apparently when you hit a rate limit you cant resume from a new session. Had to manually feed it it's own markdown it left outside of the workspace, Which in itself cost over 10k tokens

Claude Code: "Research Preview"

The fuel blockades are reason number 1 million we need to move away from fossil fuels and export focused agriculture

I did a DIY today.

Finally made shelves and drawers for my desk

How many pesatas could get me to my hotmail inbox and back to MSN Messenger in time?! The mental arithmetic of pesetas to kbs was real.

Now I don't know where this so limit quota is going. I'm spending pesates here cleaning up code after it is has "completed tasks", done and signed off

The Fake News Subspace is CRAZY, or just plain CORRUPT! We have completely destroyed the Gorn Military, including their entire fleet, and everything else. Their Hegemony is DEAD! The Hekaras Corridor will soon be open. But, Fake Subspace says, we’re losing! #StarTrek #Sisko197

Open the Fuckin’ Wormhole, you crazy p'taqs, or you’ll be living in Gre'thor - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Kahless.
President GUL DUKAT
#StarTrek #Sisko197

I've never once blatantly and knowingly subscribed, currency payable to compute time since slipping coins into an internet cafe booth at a hotel in Salou, aged 13... until now and I'm paying & waiting on Claude to lift my rate limit so I can complete some vibe coding of a turn based game.

Fuck.

This skeet got the song stuck in my head I had to watch the video to dislodge it.

Gotta love an artist who not only pumps out the bangers but still makes music videos

In other news a calculator confirmed I'm not as old as I thought. While failing mental arithmetic, 40 is further away than I thought

Much like my reaction to tasting that lacroix shit

@theauldsthretch.bsky.social has me thinking about the audacity we have for calling the summer time... Irish Standard Time... as if all things summer 🌞🍹 🌴 are just standard Irish things .

Would still die on the Irish Standard Stime hill though over whatever the Brits call it.

#Speirghorm

Such an iconic episode

The latest will they or won't they romance tension storyline in Grey's is ridiculous considering the whole series circles around inappropriate workplace relationships.

Meanwhile I've pulled my back so catching up on my shonda TV

Health Service Executive ransomware attack - Wikipedia

It actually felt very normal to us here thanks to the incompetency of the Irish Healthcare system

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_...

Twink Death

Somewhere between 2009 and 2026

Teachtaireacht na Féile Pádraig - St Patrick’s Day Message 2026 YouTube video by Áras an Uachtaráin

Teachtaireacht na Féile Pádraig ón Uachtarán Catherine Connolly

St Patrick's Day Message from President Catherine Connolly

youtu.be/JqP29E2kTJk?...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Perk of visiting the UK

Oh fancy modular faceplates...
That nobody tested 🤦‍♂️

And yes. That's the big light it turns on. How phobic

X-Ray. I put them in carry-on thinking cameras could bypass the x-ray and just get a swab (usually ok for sensitive work stuff I carry) but apparently the rules are the rules.

Film alone can bypass if taken out of camera. Can't take Polaroid film out once in 🫠

Now to find film in London

I've learnt a crucial lesson about traveling with Polaroids.

Do not load the camera before going to the airport.

London in the morning for work. Brushing up on the culture

And everybody spends a week or so getting over them. Exhausting.

But if you're lucky - good food! (and memories blah blah)