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Decided to do a back post about Jean’s Christening cos Mark reminded me I didn’t write anything at the time. By all accounts it was a great day. Went round to Dave’s place for bout 2 so everyone could meet up and then travel to the church in Leixlip. The three of us were in suits which looked a bit ridiculous considering we’ve never had cause to dress up before.

The Christening itself was at 3 and everything went smoothly with Mark as godfather needing help with “Ephitians”. 🙂 The baby was christened Jean Patricia and was suprisingly quiet throughout the whole ceremony. Afterwards we went to the River Forest Hotel for food and refreshments. The United vs Arsenal game was on so we were popping in and out of the function room to watch it on the big screen. United beat them 2-0 which was a major result as it brought their unbeaten run to an end. Nice one. 😀

After that we went down to the Three Sisters pub in Leixlip for a few more drinks and a laugh. Great band on doing rock stuff. Dave was really enjoying himself dancing away. 😆 We went home bout 2 ish. All in, a great day.

Finally got around to buying a new PC after having the same one for almost five years. I decided to take the plunge with the prospect of Half-Life 2 being released in the next few weeks. I got an AMD 64 3200+ processor, 1Gb of memory, MSI K8N Neo 3 motherboard, 2 x 200Gb hard drives, a Sapphire Radeon 9800 256-bit graphics card and a 12x Dual Layer DVD-RW drive. I’m salvaging a couple of bits (DVD ROM drive, modem) from my old machine so I can save a bit of money there. This is what it looks like. 😀

Thinking about investing in a 19-inch flat panel monitor and will make the call over the next couple of weeks. Not sure if the graphics card will run games that well at the monitors 1280×1028 native resolution though and that’ll be a deciding factor.

Dave’s Mary gave birth to a little baby girl this morning at 11.18am. 😀 They’re both over the moon and named her, Jean. This entry is actually back dated as myself and Mark went in to see them on the Saturday.

I gotta start learning to use the blog more. It’s getting ridiculous cos I set it up and continue to upgrade and improve it but just don’t use it. So, I’ve decided to teach myself to use it more. I’m gonna post about links I find on the web more and hopefully include more “diary” posts as I like to look back on whats gone on in my life over the past while.

Went down to see Frank Flynn an old college friend today at lunch. He’s working in the college and one of his work mates had a problem setting up Tomcat on her machine. I said I’d have a look but I spent an hour and a quarter at it and still couldn’t get it. I’m sorta out of practice at the moment with Java/Tomcat as I haven’t used it since college and have been doing PHP/ASP/whatever work ever since. Gonna research the errors and get back to them via mail cos I’m busy over the next while. Gotta watch the second last episode of 24 season 3, as I taped it on Monday and haven’t had time to watch it since. 😐