Archives for February, 2007

Ireland banning smoking in cars??

I’m not sure how I missed this article last week, but according to Yahoo, ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) have started campaigning to get the Irish government to ban smoking in all cars. WTF??? They claim that it’s bad for children. Fair enough, but I don’t have kids – why should I be stopped from [...]


Our Xbox 360 is officially dead… Typically, it died after 13 months, seems to be a recurring issue.  And of course, this meant that it died about 3 days after the hubbie had just renewed his €60 a year Gold membership! When I got a reminder today about my membership (took me a little longer to get [...]


This ones for Damien….

Damien wrote a really heartfelt post yesterday and I just want to send this to him – a big virtual hug: And here’s a cartoon that might put a little smile on his face, I’ve had this one stored away for ages and never had a reason to use it… Love ya Damien!


Vote Oldbones for Best Podcast(er)

It’s your last chance to vote in the Irish Blog Awards! Voting closes at 5pm today (Ireland time). I’ve been nominated in the Best Newcomer category, but more importantly – Grannymar (my Mum) has been nominated for Best Podcaster and also for Best Podcast for ‘The Favour’ on her blog ‘Oldbones’. So please head over and vote [...]


Best Hotel Booking Sites?

The Hubbie and I are trying to book our honeymoon at the moment, a three week tour around Europe in September. We’re planning to take in 2 Grand Prix races, firstly in Monza, Italy and then the following weekend in Spa, Belgium. We also have tickets for the Nurburgring Ring Taxi, which should be [...]


Jetlag, Blog Awards and Updates…

As I’ve said in a few other posts, I was attending meetings in the Phoenix area of Arizona last week. Although we were in solid meetings all day from 8am – 5pm (and sometimes later), I was still able to get out and about seeing old friends and shopping. I have a huge amount of thoughts [...]


After spending a week driving around the Phoenix metropolitan area, had you asked me several days ago, I would have said that ‘Google is my best friend!’. Now, I’m not so sure… When you’re in America, Google really is all powerful. For example, I searched for the name of a restaurant that I went [...]


My RSS feed has changed…

Just brought to my attention by my hubbie, my RSS feed changed during my recent move from Blogger to Wordpress. Subscribe to the new feed by clicking here.


BarCamp Dublin is go!

This is a copy of a post that I just loaded up over at the BarCamp Dublin blog. Remember to head over and subscribe to the RSS to keep up to date with our updates. ——————————————————————————– Following the success of the first two Irish BarCamps in Cork and Waterford, we are pleased to announce that BarCamp [...]


Well I arrived safely in Arizona, even if my luggage didn’t!  It’s about time, in fairness, as I’ve been traveling a lot over the past few years and mostly through Heathrow when accessing the USA.  I’m not totally sure what happened, as my colleague and I arrived in Heathrow with 2hrs 30mins to spare, had [...]


I’m packed and I’m ready!

And off to Arizona in the morning… Superbowl party on Sunday, team meetings for 4 days and then a glorious day spent shopping before taking the overnight flight home… So if you hadn’t already guessed, posting will most likely be even more intermittent than normal as I’ll end up spending the week running around catching [...]


I’ve been meaning to load up my presentation that I gave at BarCamp a few weeks ago, but it kept slipping my mind. I had a decent turnout, made harder that I was running against one of the more popular panel session! My session really did pose more questions than it answered, and one of [...]


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