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I grew up in Cobh—pronounced “cove”—Cork, Ireland. There’s a statue in the middle of town; an angel presiding over the figures of local fishermen who lost their lives 100 years ago when a German U-boat torpedoed and sank The Lusitania off the old head of Kinsale. They were attempting to rescue survivors.

On the outskirts of town there’s an old cemetery where a mass grave was dug for the bodies of the Lusitania victims.

Cobh’s history is filled with ill-fated ships. It was the last stop of The Titanic. The ships are now memorialised as pub names.

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Previously on this day

10 years ago I wrote The format of The Long Now

Betting on HTML.

12 years ago I wrote Building the Real-time Web

Liveblogging a spontaneous panel from XTech 2008 in Dublin.

12 years ago I wrote Browsers on the Move: The Year in Review, the Year Ahead

Liveblogging a talk by Michael Smith at XTech 2008 in Dublin.

12 years ago I wrote Using socially-authored content to provide new routes through existing content archives

Liveblogging a talk by Rob Lee at XTech 2008.

12 years ago I wrote David Recordon’s XTech keynote

David delivers a state of the Web address to the geek nation.

16 years ago I wrote A musical interlude

Here’s a song guaranteed to bring a smile to the face of anyone who owned an 8-bit machine in the eighties… Hey, Hey, 16K:

17 years ago I wrote Same planet, different worlds

English footballer, David Beckham is worth £10.53m.

18 years ago I wrote Attack of the 50 foot iMac

If you go down to the centre of Brighton, you’re in for a big surprise.

18 years ago I wrote Salter Cane

It’s time for me to unveil a site I’ve been working on for a while now.