Tag: Vox archive

Nothing like adding insult to injury

The Irish economic situation might be completely screwed, and the most extreme austerity measures may have been brought in with the latest budget, but it seems that AIB, one of the banks that largely pulled Ireland down into this mess by needing massive bailouts, still has the gall to proceed with 40 million in bonus […]

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The plan

What’s the glorious plan then? I have a few options for how I’m going to approach this. This becomes just a general place for posting ramblings, interesting links, etc This becomes a blog and a photoblog. This becomes just a photoblog. One way or another I’m definitely feeling quite good about working off my own […]

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What about an export?

So I’m thinking about moving my personal blog to my own domain, alex.leonard.ie, for no major reason but it feels like it’s the right thing to do. I’ve had a few people mention the fact that they have to join vox to comment here, and I don’t want to think that I’m excluding anyone 😉 […]

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How to respond to sexual competition

Came across this today here: http://trashpile.net/upload/white%20whale.png I’ve tried to find out where it came from originally but can’t seem to find any reference to its creator. Entertaining though 🙂 Other Spectacular Shows! You can bet on my brother XP makes a comeback at Dell Would you like some dressing with that? Word Press 2.5 not […]

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QotD: I Left My Heart in…

What do you love about where you live? Submitted by Emu with a Clue. I love the fact that I’m in the middle of nowhere. Very peaceful and quiet. Lots of space, and cheap! Here’s a photo taken from the back of our house nearing dusk. All we have to see is a lot of […]

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The future of Facebook

I have to say that I found this very amusing.. I found it here: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2008/04/11/5009 However they don’t seem to know where it came from originally! Other Spectacular Shows! Vox Hunt: Make Us Laugh Un PC Joke The Short Big Lebowski (Obscenity Filled) The most evil police force in the world The future of Google […]

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The 2008 Gmail Appeal

You may or may not care about this, but as a designer this is definitely important to me. Taken from http://www.email-standards.org/gmail-appeal By the way, my ugly mug is the very last one in the video. Other Spectacular Shows! Windows Live Mail When the cat jumps out of the bag Making waves Last FM – the […]

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Bertie’s gone

Huzzah! Bertie Ahern, head of the Irish government, has resigned. He’s a crook, and should never have lasted as long in power as he did. You can watch RTE’s news reports about it here: http://www.rte.ie/live/ I found his brother’s comment amusing, on being asked what he thought of Bertie’s decision to resign: He’s usually right […]

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Vox Hunt: Allergy Season

Show us something you’re allegic to. This is the only thing I’m aware of – the problem is that it’s really small and I can’t avoid it when it’s around… Actually, when you look at it up close like this I can see why I might be allergic to it – it looks pretty nasty. […]

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