Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Tent up, weather ok, now where's my cans?
Posted in From the Field | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Right, so off to the Picnic tomorrow for 3 days of fun and frolics. If the mood takes me (and the network is ok), then I may upload a few photo-posts.
Otherwise normal service will resume on Monday/Tuesday.
If you're there and you see me, give me a shout and we can ...
Posted in Announcements, Ceól, Electric Picnic | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Right, so this fell off a lorry that's been driving near a lot of Irish Blogs recently.
It's a big file at 3.4MB, so if you're not on a fast connection, I wouldn't even bother.
The reason it's so big is because it's not just the map or the line-up, it's the ...
Posted in Ceól, Electric Picnic | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Seriously, kudos to whoever in Dublin City Council commissioned this ad!
It's got it all, funny concept, important message and disturbingly catchy tune...
Posted in Obscure Nonsense | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
If you haven't already heard, Niall O'K has setup a new site called ShiteDrivers.com on which you can register and vent about the idiots we all see driving.
He's been getting some serious coverage for it, in everything from the Sunday Tribune (including a photo from one of my posts) to ...
Posted in Blogs, Insane People, Obscure Nonsense | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 24th, 2007
So Brian Cowen gave a few words up at John Cooney's Humbert Summer School today, one section of his speech discussed the Media's treatment of Bertie Ahern coming up to the General Election. One section stood out to me -
"after 10 years, the public know him pretty well by now ...
Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Just for the record, Vodafone (Ireland) Business Email is a waste of time.
As I've mentioned before, I recently got a new mobile. With it came the possibility of access to said email service.
So, like a good little Vodafone bunny, I called them up and asked to be setup. No bother ...
Posted in Random Gadget Nonsense, Tech Stuff | 2 Comments »
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Herr McDowell quit, then Sargent, now Pat*..
So it's official, Pat Rabbitte has stood down as leader of the Labour Party. Whilst not unexpected, it is, as one person I know put it, "Weird". I like to think I'm quite informed on the politics front, but I didn't really get into ...
Posted in News, Politics | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
I'm in with Twenty on this one. The new Irish Blogs layout is less attractive than a public toilet run by the corpo.
Posted in Blogs, Colossal Mistake waiting to happen, Obscure Nonsense | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 20th, 2007
Seriously, am I the only person who sees this as a security nightmare waiting to happen?
RFID tagged Credit cards? I thought the idea was to reduce credit card fraud, not make it easier?
Posted in Colossal Mistake waiting to happen, News, Security, Tech Stuff | 5 Comments »