It appears that the tallyman is safe. An Independent Commission has found the proposed electronic voting machines cannot be recommended.
In other news, it appears that the recent appearance of Jason Byrne on the Irish team in Poland could cost Shelbourne 50,000 euro – or about 10,000 euro a minute – as part of the deal they signed with Bray Wanderers when he was transferred. Even Roy Keane doesn’t cost that much 
Scores a goal and the cup comes home!
I see from the news report on ireland.com that Jason Byrne, who is cousin of Keane the smaller, was capped for Ireland tonight in Poland. Okay, so he was only on for all of two minutes, but its still great to see a former Bray player get his cap. Congratulations!
Here is what the official Bray Wanderers site has to say.
Last night was of course Tuesday. It being Tuesday, it’s time for the regular choral society practice (if anyone cares, we were doing John Rutters “O When the Saints” and “Down by the Riverside”). Afterwards we go to the pub as we often do.
When I get home, TOP has already left to go bed (I presume – she was N/A in ICQ and a “Are you awake” message didn’t elicit a response). It left me thinking that this is the really bad thing about LDRs – if I saw TOP most days it wouldn’t bother me that we barely talked last night, but the fact we didn’t talk does bother me – a lot. Maybe its just the fact this is a new thing, but when in an LDR, you clearly need whatever contact you can get.
I find it interesting how the public perception of what happened as opposed to what actually happened, even on very recent events (ie within the last three years) is often very different.
For instance, Roy Keane did not, in the final analysis, leave Saipan from choice. He was in fact sent home by Mick McCarthy. Despite this, a survey for the Sunday Independent shows that 55% of people believe Keane walked out on the squad (he had walked out – then been talked around into staying).
Another instance is a couple of comments in the Irish Times about the retirement of Cardinal Connell – Patsy McGarry comments on the row a couple of years ago about the Taoiseach and Ms Larkin hosting a reception in his honour. A lot of people seem to forget that the original instigators of that row were two clerics from the Church of Ireland who objected to the Taoiseach’s private arrangements, and said publicly that they had no intention of going to the reception in order to make the point. Seems a little unfair to blame the Cardinal for starting that particular row methinks!
NSCD kept me up last night. We had a problem with mrtg not collecting data. Problem was that it was accessing the wrong IP, despite the fact dig and host were showing the correct IPs. Problem turned out to be a bug in nscd, so I turned off host caching.
We then looked on a debian box that has some very rude things to say about nscd and host caching
Yes it does exist. Somewhere.
I’m currently playing with FreeRadius to try to get it to send L2TP attributes to the NAS that makes the request if the realm specified is not “the usual” one.
This is proving a little tricky – if the user doesn’t exist in the local database, everything’s fine. Service-Type is set to Outbound-User.
However, irritatingly if userpart exists in the local database, Service-Type is set to Framed-User. This is clearly a problem. I need to fix this.
I am that thick!
So anyway – after much of the dithering that seems to surround any decision I make ever about women, I recently finally got around to not dithering and making up my mind.
Of course part of the hesitation was uncertainty about TOP (the other person) felt. Discovered that TOP has been agonising over this decision for months (it was a little mind blowing to discover this goes backs to weeks before Christmas).
TOP showed me her blog. She did ask me not to pass the URL on – but I do feel a complete idiot right now.
I must learn to not forget my password.
I must learn to not forget my password.