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In September 2006, Lifehacker published an article on using wget to grab mp3 files from music blogs. That article was based in turn on Jeffery Veen's article, and that's where I found out about Fingertips Music. Every week, the editor of Fingertips publishes mini-reviews and links to three free-and-legal mp3s of indie bands. The criteria [...]

Picture: Chance and Paxton on Cave Hill, with McArt's Fort behind and Belfast below.

(OK, it's been nearly three months since we did this - it's high time I posted it.)

Our big excursion for the weekend was over to Belfast Castle, and a hike to Cavehill above it. Ginger went with the boys and Evelyn during [...]

Lanes wide enough so I don't have to worry about squeezing over for oncoming traffic
Chipotle, Willy's, and Moe's
Publix sub sandwiches (this was one I didn't realize I'd missed until I had one - OMG so goooood)
Someone at said Publix (and pretty much everywhere else) putting my purchases in a bag for me
Places taking Amex (although [...]

I haven't talked yet about why we're here in Belfast - this is a personal blog, I'm pretty sure I know all of the visitors here IRL, and I don't like to talk too much about company business here. But I've had an interesting few weeks, and am relaxing these a bit. For a bit [...]

The Giant's Ring was really the first true tourist thing we did as a family in Belfast. It's probably less that three miles from our house, and one of these days we're going to try to walk it from the Minnowburn Beeches near Shaw's Bridge.

The ring itself is about 220 yards in diameter, and [...]