December 2011
1 post
February 2008
3 posts
Dammit
They lost by one point with 70 seconds to go. Fuck it I’m off to Africa for a fortnight. True and True
I contemplated blogging again tonight
Full domain the works … an urge but don’t know if it’s a sustainable one. It’d still have to be anon… Probably feel different in the morning, but Ecto felt so familiar. Know what I mean?
More respect for Leo
Having watched ‘Catch me if you can’, ‘The Departed’ and ‘Blood Diamond’ for the first time I’m starting ti get a bit of respect for Mr DiCaprio
January 2008
21 posts
Getting older
You can probably tell from the Youtube trawl below that I was having a bit of a nostalgic trip. It was my birthday yesterday, and a significant one. So after the TV shows it was a trawl through the music (Youtube never let’s you down). The Missus … being younger … went to bed with a pitiful look in her eyes. Ah you had to be there to love it I guess, can’t blame her....
Thank God for Twitter
Everybody who had nothing interesting to say, now says it on Twitter.
More memories from many clicks
This was released too late to be out at the time (by about 10 years I think), but it triggered vivid memories of me being in the southwest of France one summer. A penniless traveller drinking cheap and nasty red wine, playing backgammon, eating fries in a baguette for most meals, falling madly in lust with a French Girl I could hardly talk to (shite at languages) and dancing till the sun came...
Terminally Incoherent - Adding Comments to Tumblr →
Should I ever want to … which I don’t right now
The Nikon D40 Resource List →
Super cockroaches conceived in space
now this is the kind of thing you see at the start of a sci-fi movie just before the super cockroaches take over the Earth … eek “Cockroaches recently conceived in space are superior to those born on Earth, reports the Russian Space Agency. The roaches were conceived during a September flight of the Russian Foton-M biological research satellite. From the Russian Information Agency...
Source of Sunday stress is...
Driving around South County Dublin getting lunch and doing a little bit of shopping while trying to avoid the pricks in their 4x4/SUV/Tank’s who can’t even drive the god damn things properly! Never mind the learner drivers :/ And don’t get me started on the fuckers who missed parking school up at Carrickmines… What should have been a relaxing day ended up with the comment...
Very strange Google thing
If I log into GMail settings using Safari - no option to enable imap. If I log into GMail settings using Firefox- I get an option to enable imap. Why discriminate against Safari?
Vista
I just had my first exposure to Vista today. Helping somebody configure their new laptop. I’m hoping the throbbing pain in my head goes away soon. Dear God it’s annoying “Er are you sure you want to do that?” YES I FUCKING WELL OPENED THE APPLICATION!! OSX at home and Windows Professional in Corporate Life … hopefully they don’t make us upgrade soon.
What happens if the techs run the show?
When Ruby on Rails was released I was a big fan and looked at it very carefully. Then lost interest because of certain development directions. My background is straddling the divide between “The business” and “The techs” in real life. So what happens if you let the techs run the show and decide on direction? Well read this: DreamHost Blog » How Ruby on Rails Could...
Winning the fight
2008 - eep where is my life going Okay so I had the 31st off. Work was glorius because it was quiet and I could catch up a on a zillion things. But having a long weekend was a lot like slamming a car going at 140kmph into first gear … it’s going to be messy. So I feel the fingers of a cold reaching out for me but I’ll be damned if I’m going to get it. Having great fun...
Youtube embedding sucks for the post below →
December 2007
10 posts
“For fucks sake they’re killing each other over a turkey!”
– Overhead in a Southside Dunnes today
“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster...”
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Breathe out ... and relax
Presents bought. Too much money spent. I need to research what’s good and what’s not for women a little better next year. Scored last year with the prezzies, so hopefully I’m on a roll.
Oh shite
Friday before Christmas. No shopping done. Bollox my relaxing weekend just went phut!
2 annoying things...
Number the one - why does FF on my Powerbook suddenly decide to hog 80% of the CPU for no reason? Number the two - Radio 1 censors Pogues’ Fairytale … unbelievabe!! Eejits.
In or out
I once had an entire site that I wiped off the face of the virtual world with not a second’s hesitation. Sometimes I miss it, normally when I have ten minutes to myself, which is pretty rare these days. I miss it from a technical point of view. Would I set one up again? Maybe but i just don’t have the time. It would just get neglected very quickly. I like being to drop in and out...
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today”
– Abraham Lincoln - 16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
Vinegar - not just fer chips →
November 2007
23 posts
Facebook account binned
Enough said. Didn’t like it or need it
Into the Blue (2005) →
Um, it’s about treasure and diving I think … sorta zoned out when Ms Alba went diving so lost the plot trail … the missus is not happy :)
Halo 3 - Fun, but best game eva, as the kids say? ... →
Cleaning house
I hadn’t done any real maintainence on the powerbook for eons. But there was so much development crap on there that it was getting a little shaky. Nothing to do with the OS, but more of an issue of me playing in it’s bowels - so to speak. Complete reinstall feels good. I would have bought Leopard but we’re looking to get an iMac so it’ll come with that.
BlackBerry 8800 - my new phone, iPhone is a no for... →
Ick
King Kong - the remake - the newest one. That scene where the bugs are crawling all over them is NOT a good thing to see on the TV first thing in the morning when you haven’t had yer first cup of coffee. Trust me
Blur Studio →
Game trailers bring in the cash, but it’s the animated shorts they do that are great
The X Factor
Oh the missus likes it, but thank God it’s stopped being like a Trócaire ad with singing
Stephen Fry →
Deliciously refreshing
The majority of blogs fall into two categories
1. Gaze at their own navel and write about it 2. Gaze at what 1. is doing and write about it one day later
“WASHINGTON (AFP) — The number of foreign visitors to the United States has...”
– AFP: ‘Unwelcoming’ US sees sharp fall in visitors since 9/11 That’s why I’m not going unless I have no choice. I’d meet Homeland Security and itd cause an international incident
“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the...”
– Sun Tsu (related to annoying moment of the week)
Annoying point of the week … when somebody gave me an unsolicited opinion, I gave one back and they got annoyed at it. Eye rolling moment in time.