Sat, 04 Sep 2004 - Ireland
After leaving NY I headed home via Ireland for a week for a bit of a
holiday, and to catch up with Seona who moved to Dublin earlier this
year. The weather was a pleasant change from the weeks of hot humid
weather in Austin and New York, though it appears an Irish summer is
kind of like an Adelaide winter, only wetter. I don't think a single
day went by without at least some rain.
Seona took me on some really pretty hikes north and south of Dublin,
and during the week I spent a few days visiting the various tourist
spots of Dublin city. Took a day trip via train to Kilkenny to visit
the castle. The castle had been converted into a manor home, and was
missing one of the walls. Cromwell has a lot to answer for! The town
itself was also very interesting with lots of interesting old
buildings. The Black Abbey had some of the most beautiful stained
glass windows I've ever seen.
Coast just south of Dublin
When Rowan, Nikki and Seona's cousins Victoria and James arrived later
that week we headed up to Northern Ireland to see some of the sights,
visiting the Newgrange
Tombs along the way. It was quite wet, but we did manage to visit
the Carrick-a-reed rope bridge, and the Giant's Causeway. And one last
castle, Dunluce, which perched on the edge of a cliff. Unfortunately
it appears that most of the castles around have either been heavily
modified or are in ruins.
Tower at Powerscourt Estate
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Sun, 04 Jan 2004 - Another Tivo Install
My parents and I bought my brother a Tivo for Christmas, so it was up
to me to set it up. Most of the initial setup was very easy, though
getting the guide data onto it proved frustratingly
difficult. Telnet'ing to the Tivo and transferring small files worked
fine, but larger file transfers to the Tivo froze. Large file
transfers from the Tivo also worked ok. We initially thought that the
serial cable was faulty as the ppp connection would drop if you played
with the cable a bit, but a second cable had the same transfer
problems. Played around with various ppp and rsync options for a
while, before finally setting the mtu of the connection to
200. Although its slow in transferring files, it will now at least
eventually get the guide data onto the system.
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Sun, 04 Jan 2004 - Winking Baby
I'm back in Adelaide for a few weeks so I've been spending a fair
amount of time with my niece and nephew, Catherine and Peter. Peter is
about 11 months old and after a few days of trying I've managed to
teach him how to wink. Its very cute, but he's not yet doing it often
enough to get a photo of him doing it.
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