1836 The Alamo falls to Mexican troops, defenders including Davy Crockett massacred, Texas
10:10
Belgian Leo Baekeland patented the world's first synthetic plastic, which he called Bakelite.
10:16
The constant trill of sirens. The hostile children drinking like rats. The cascading sounds of rubble falling through the morning air.
10:18
Impetuously downloaded a Judge Dredd game from the Playstation store late last night and went to bed. Woke up this morning and found it was 1997. Feeling ripped off for my fiver and decade. I'll be shooting perps at last, though.
10:37
PAT: A danger to shipping?
ECO-INVESTOR: Oh it only weighs 120 tonnes of concrete and produces a whole 1.5mw of electricity so it's not just a danger to shipping. This wave-generator is also bad for the environment.
10:42
Not as bad for the environment as breeding the animals like are nesting next door partying on gut rot beer at 10am with school girls in tow.
10:43
Electrical output is down to 500kw now. That's two lightbulbs and a doorbell for four hours a day's-worth. Thanks for being honest. I'll be honest now too. Your results are mickey mouse and the machine does more damage than it could ever hope to reverse.
10:52
Two tracksuit bedecked buddies have left my floor and hit the street clutching cans of AM Bud beer. Destined for greatness.
11:05
Another Irish billionaire magnanimously throws €2m down to a sports outfit. What an extraordinary gesture. For a tax exile. More sports means more drink, of course, but we're putting our face to the floor about that, thanks very much.
11:18
Woman with a fat voice still holding the mic too close to her big box. Can hear that lisping sound. That kicking, spitting sound. The pops they warned us about in the half-day radio course we were sent on once at the age of 12.
11:32
Tara Valley is buried in tar. China has more accountability. The Milesians consecrated this land as sacred. The forum area of ancient Ireland. The agora.
PAT: It's a hole in the ground. A cattle market in times of yore.
MINISTER: The problem doesn't exist. It's simple and I'm surprised you're talking about it like we're the Taliban. In the future they'll be saying, "Didn't they have a good idea building a road through the valley."
12:03
The Minister for Children has announced a new prison for young offenders. Thank god for progressive social policies. Where?
- Eh, it's in the middle of nowhere with no trains or buses.
12:05
A second later I click on disturbing new photos from Abu Gharib, previously unseen. Which circle of hell are we on now?
12:06
Can confirm that there are no Nazi photos I've yet seen (and I've looked) that are as bad. Might be the full colour that makes it lurid. Might be the individulisation of torture. Could be the pretty women making the men suffer pain, naked bloody finger-fucking pain. Must be reminiscent of a reform school in Ireland.
13:20
Made guy comes on the radio saying there is a copy of the European Reform Treaty online at http://www.reformtreaty.ie/ but there isn't because I just checked. Calling the lo call number now.
13:28
Brnnng. Department of Foreign Affairs?
COMRADE: Hi the minister just said on the radio that there was a copy of the treaty on the reformtreaty.ie website. Could you tell me where? I've checked under every section under FAQs and all. I've even applied the google site search to it and I can't find it.
DEPT: Errr - I'll get one of my colleagues to ring you back. Do you know the freefone number?
COMRADE: I dialled but I must have got the wrong number because it doesn't work.
DEPT: Errr - I'll get someone to ring you back.
13:37
Drunx freak out again indoors. The "information" on the government website is what you might call "skewed", to say the least. (EG Minister says "Vote Yes!" and Minister says "Don't worry about it! We approve this message!"
14:15
I'm tired of hunting them down. Fishinabarrell.
15:27
Nay boors acting the bollox again. Never not ever able to ever just give it a rest not for one second.
15:41
Searched the Lisbon treaty PDF I downloaded (thanks to the BBC) for the word "sovereignty" and it was not found. I think that about sums it up, eh?
14:16
Wednisfuckingday. Even James Joyce took 7 years to write Uselessess. Ended up printing everything he ever wrote down. The damp sicktoid fantasies of a dapperdan Dublin man. He tells us he left lots of things in it to keep critics going for years. That's not writing, that's wanking. Yeah well here's a final word for you, Mr. Magoo: sick fucker!
14:18
Safe: get your retaliation in first.
14:22
Mother's milk. Yummy like blended salty porridge.
14:48
Said they're going to place the PDF of the Reform Treaty on the website. Also reminded them that the majority of people (60%) don't have internet access because of a failed telecoms strategy. She didn't understand that point.
16:05
They said to close my other windows and refresh my browser. I said I went to the BBC to get what I needed and advised them that technically and democratically it's the best thing to have it as a single downloadable PDF. Fuck them. Our young people are going to be drafted into Natural Gas Wars with Russia started by France and Germany and Britain.
Hang on, come to think of it, maybe that's not a bad idea ...
