Keith Drummond

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  Fancy a Ride this Sunday? AAI Info/Reg Ride-Out

  With the Irish Motorcycle Show only taking place every two years now the organisers of the Annual Across Ireland have taken to organising information/registration ride out when they can not have a stall at the Motorcycle Show. This years event will be held on Sunday 28th March with everyone meeting between 10am – 12pm at…

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  25 March 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  The Dropout Revolutionaries

  Times are a changin’, as the lyric goes, but this is not the sort of change to believe in or even one that many politicians would even desire. A type of antipolitics is emerging along the lines of John Robbs resilient communities. Around us we see the formation of new underground banking systems regulated only…

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  15 March 2010
• Politics & Political Science

  When is a Pilot Not a Pilot? The Unmanned Air-Force Emerges

  For the first time the US Air-force is producing pilots who have never flown a plane, this is the first class of pilots just trained to fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). There is obviously some friction emerging from the old guard who believe there can be only one kind of pilot. However, the air-force is…

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  13 March 2010
• Hobbies & Interests Technology

  Change We Can Believe In – Ubuntu Rebooted

  Believe it or not, 6 years have passed since the Warty Warthog jumped onto out screens. Since then Ubuntu has grown and spread into the stable and secure operating system we find ourselves with today. But now it is time for change, when ‘Human’ gives way to the ‘Light’ of a new dawn for those…

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  3 March 2010
• Hobbies & Interests Reviews & Opinions Technology

  Kindling Interest: Amazon Kindle 2 in Ireland

  I will put my hands up and admit that I was highly sceptical of the recent explosion of ebook reading devices. Amazon and Sony seem to be leading the way, with Apple’s new iPad also being marketed as being suitable for this role, and it was an introduction to the Sony reader that really peaked…

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  24 February 2010