Archives for 2006
I love my Off the Mark cartoons, I have a daily calendar that I treated myself to this year. Spotted this one last week and just had to share it!! © Mark Parisi www.offthemark.com
So it’s all over the news this morning that Ryanair has launched a takeover bid for Aer Lingus just over 1 week after it was floated. They’re offering a very reasonable markup on the current share price, and I have to admit, I’d take it if I was a shareholder. We mustn’t forget that [...]
A few interesting things that caught my attention this week while surfing around the blog-o-sphere… Spotted on the invisible Mr Mulley’s blog: Glass bridge for the Grand Canyon – A phenomenal idea for the Grand Canyon, when you’re there you have an irresistible urge to get close to the edge and a few people have gotten a [...]
‘Cos if you’ve been sitting on the throne for a while, then your legs might fall asleep…. And if you try to stand up, then they might buckle under you… And you might try to grab the towel rail for support… And the towel rail might come away from the wall…. And you’ll need to spend Saturday doing DIY… (Couldn’t [...]
In a similar vein to my presentation at BarCamp last weekend, I found an article this week over on “back in skinny jeans” that explains RSS the ‘Oprah’ way. It’s a really clear guide that would be perfect to give to a non-technical person of any age, nevermind your granny – one of the [...]
or I Want One Of Those, for the uninitiated… Two things showed up this week: The Multi-function Desktop Digital Frame – digital photo frames are a great idea, but until recently they were wayyyy too expensive… This one’s fairly reasonable at $70, it slideshows through 22 pics, shows the calendar and temperature as well as functioning as [...]
before it’s even released… According to news sites, Sony will be releasing only 400,000 units of the PS3 in North America and 100,000 in Japan in November, with no more than 2 million in total by the end of 2006… And nothing at all in Europe until at least March 2007… And since there’s already a Xbox 360 [...]
Well, that’s what it feels like at least… I started entering my books into www.librarything.com tonight, I’ve completed 3 shelves so far, have 6 more to go and that’s before I start on the boxes upstairs… I can see this taking a while… My current author cloud looks a little something like this… can you tell which [...]
Except thats no excuse, Istanbul Park in Turkey has more money than the Nurburgring, that’s for sure? So just what were they thinking when they sent the F1 drivers out on their ‘driver parade’ clinging onto stripper’s poles??? Credits to Sutton photography for the Istanbul photo, and to My Hubbie for the Nurburgring photos… Istanbul Nurburgring [...]
Chocolate, Chocolate everywhere, way too much to eat! Trying in vain to decide on what type of wedding cake I want…. too much choice out there! All I know is that I don’t want a traditional fruit cake, it’s really not my cup of tea! Take a look at these and let me know what [...]
Socks with Crocs? Whatever was he thinking? I know that Josh Bancroft calls himself a technical evangelist, but that’s no excuse for him to consider dressing like a minister on holiday…. [UPDATE: photos above do not depict Josh Bancroft!] Josh, check out the Crocs site – all the photos there show the crocs without socks – are [...]
Apparently I managed to break my RSS earlier this week and I never even noticed! All has been repaired now, but if you had previously added me to your Aggregator then you may need to do a re-add to get it all to pull through. For those using NewsGator (and face up to it, if [...]
My hubbie found a wonderful site for me today! We’ve been using DVD Profiler for a few years now, it’s a great way to keep track of your DVD/movie collection. And the hubbie has spent many, many hours doing a fantastic job of ripping all of our music to the PC, tagging it and adding [...]
Is it that time already? Been playing with the blog template for a couple of hours now, going glassy-eyed from the HTML… I had tweaked the CSS settings ages ago, and liked them, but when I moved over to my own domain instead of blogger and added a bunch of new code, it all went a [...]
A wonderful post from The Nonist. You need to be into books to enjoy this one! Hot Library Smut, or alternatively, Sex Libris
We’ve had a lot of publicity over the last few days and it’s really increased the traffic on the site. I blogged on Monday about how it all started with an article in the Irish Independent that morning. From there we had TV appearances, radio and newspaper interviews that Ciaran and myself spent the [...]
Got a mail from the toothpastefordinner mailing list today, just occurred to me that I’d been missing Drew’s ramblings as they dropped into my mailbox each week or so… Turns out that he’s blogging instead these days! Took me ages to find his RSS feed on his site, but it’s there now… In case you’re not [...]
What a day it has been! www.neighbours.ie, the site that I have been helping with it’s media relations and publicity effort had an article in the Irish Independent this morning… and the phone has barely stopped ringing since! Ciaran and I have had offers from various local and national TV, Radio and Newspapers so we [...]
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