http://www.avalon5.com Politically Incorrect & Randomnly Insane Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:58:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THEY SAY the first step is acknowledging that one has a problem so here goes... I'm addicted to sci-fi, and the worse the better. Think of it like a B movie addiction, the type of guity pleasure you wouldn't even admit to your wife, and this weekend I couldn't resist the lure ... http://www.avalon5.com/personal/guilty-pleasures/a-seriously-crappy-sci-fi-weekend/ THOSE DILIGENT developers in the Wordpress community have gone and released the latest iteration of Wordpress (V2.6) almost a month earlier than planned, but I wouldn't be rushing to upgrade just yet if I was you. I'm a long time Wordpress user and should have known better, but driven by all ... http://www.avalon5.com/wordpress/web-development/wordpress-26-is-out-but-id-recommend-some-procrastination/ WANTED finally hit the screens here a couple of weeks ago and I've been meaning to post a quick review, but I got distracted by a minor disaster  for a while. Actually, distracted is a good way of summarising my thoughts on this movie because the combination of bending bullets, slow ... http://www.avalon5.com/arts-and-literature/films/wanted-more-nudity-and-maybe-a-plot/ I KNOW America loves its guns, but this is weird on a whole new level folks. A Church in Oklahoma city decided recently to hold a weekend conference for teenagers, and what better way to entice some nice young faithful into the fold than by offering a prize of a semi-automatic ... http://www.avalon5.com/weird-and-whacky/weird/preaching-faith-through-superior-firepower/ I'M FINALLY BACK IN ACTION after a crazy few days. The technical issues that had plagued my PC have all been resolved and I've put a new backup solution in place to avoid the same happening to me again (hopefully), but it was a strange series of events that knocked ... http://www.avalon5.com/news/site-news/disaster-recovery-complete/ SORRY for the inactivity of the last few days folks, I've been trying to recover my computer from the depths of tech hell since it all went horribly wrong on Saturday afternoon last. I blame Nokia myself, but the long and short of it is that I've had to hand ... http://www.avalon5.com/news/site-news/technology-will-always-shit-on-you/ THE IRISH BROADBAND market got a much needed shot in the arm today with the announcement that ComReg (the Commision for Communications Regulation) has directed Eircom to slash its LLU line share pricing by 65 percent, effectively droppng the wholesale price for LLU line share from €8.41 to €2.94 for ... http://www.avalon5.com/science-and-technology/technology/internet/broadband-in-ireland-finally-gets-moving/ NEW RESEARCH has indicated that some drugs used to put patients to sleep may also increase post operative pain from the procedure itself by boosting the activity of a protein called TRPA1 on the surface of pain-sensing nerve cells. I don't know about you, but when it comes to dentists I'm a complete ... http://www.avalon5.com/science-and-technology/science/new-research-anesthesia-actually-increases-post-surgery-pain/ IS IRELAND still a democracy? I know that sounds like a crazy question, but based upon the latest news worming its way out from central Europe I'm beginning to question if we do indeed live in a democracy or are we in fact operating as a form of oligarchy, or worse ... http://www.avalon5.com/politics-law-and-religion/politics/no-deal-on-lisbon-treaty-but-another-referendum-on-the-way/ WAR IS IN THE WIND. Or at least that's what the Israeli military want everyone to think since Israeli forces have just staged an 'exercise' which pretty much replicates a full scale attack on Iran and in particular the Iranian nuclear facilities. Military and political analysts seem to agree that the purpose ... http://www.avalon5.com/editorials/world-domination/israeli-sights-set-on-iran-send-in-the-elders/