I think there is a strong possibility that there will be a run on the Euro. I am moving to liquidate my Euro denominated savings tomorrow morning to purchase Yen. The current system is unworkable. Even if it survives I think it’s going to take a huge hammering on the exchange market relative to the [...]
Fri, January 29 2010 » Economics » No Comments
I finished Final Fantasy XIII today. Before I got it I had tempered my expectations as I was so disappointed with Final Fantasy XII that I didn’t even finish it. I had also played the FFXIII demo that came with FFVII Advent Children blu-ray and felt let down by the performance. So I was all [...]
Tue, January 19 2010 » Games » 1 Comment
I made this massive smoothie today. Contains “mixed berries”, grapes, banana and semi-skimmed milk. I’ve never identified with the culture and society of my own country (Ireland) but I think this kind of captures my idealised view of what the place should be more like. Recently as the whole ponzi scheme of an economy has [...]
Sun, January 17 2010 » Food, Solidarity » No Comments
I had Yellow Dog Linux installed on my PS3, but looking for improved performance I tried installing Xubutu 9.10 last night. It runs far better, likely mainly because I’m now using xfce instead of gnome. With only 256MB of RAM, a PS3 is brutally unforgiving to bloat. I also managed to setup the VRAM to [...]
Fri, January 15 2010 » Hardware, Software » No Comments
With this season of anime series at an end I must say I have been very lucky to have 5 series all to my liking that kept me entertained for the past 3 months. The great thing about Japan having such a large population is that it has the economy of scale to rigorously cater [...]
Tue, January 5 2010 » Anime, Japan » 3 Comments