Archives for 2008

Winter getting you down?

Then watch this – all of it. I guarantee that you can’t get to the end while keeping a straight face!


Until 1 October 1916 time in all of Ireland was based on Dublin Mean Time which was GMT minus 25 minutes.


I’m a little late in posting this – Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama on “Meet the Press”, 19th Oct 2008.


Make up yer mind lads!


Before: After: Michelangelo’s David


Update: First video is not showing in feed readers, please click through to the post to see it. Sorry. Before the last of the Presidential campaign debates, Barack Obama was in Ohio and was questioned by Joseph Wurzelbacher, since nicknamed “Joe the Plumber” by the US news channels. (It’s since been found out since that Joe [...]


Election 08 – McCain Humour

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Election 08 – Palin Humour

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Election 08 – Barack Humour

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We’ve all done it before: “I’m meeting this guy, not sure if I like him, give me a call at 8:30 and if I need out I’ll use you as an excuse, right?” Except what if your mate forgets to call? Then you need this website – getmooh.com – “Get me out of here!” Getmooh is an automated call [...]


So you’ve decided to be evil…

Go here. Put in your choices, click generate. Post your Evil Plan! Your objective is simple: World Domination. Your motive is a little bit more complex: Sadistic pleasure Stage One To begin your plan, you must first expose a pope. This will cause the world to swallow nervously, bewildered by your arrival. Who is this evil [...]


BarrackRoll’d


Word of the Day: Donnybrook

donnybrook \DON-ee-brook\, noun: 1. A brawl; a free-for-all. 2. A heated quarrel or dispute. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for donnybrook


How society changes


Going? I’m tempted…

Turtlehead presents: MASER versus GAETAN BILLAULT with free beer! Those rocking t-shirt designers Turtlehead (“touching cloth since 2006″) have done it again with their latest Versus. Local graffiti star Maser will be dueling it out with Gaetan Billault hanging, spraying and sticking and drawing directly onto the walls, ceilings, floors and windows. Date: Oct 2nd 2008 Time: 6:30pm Location: 1/2 Smock [...]


then this is it! Just go and read it! She came home to meet my parents. I think it sums up exactly why I’m proud of “me mammy”, in words that I’ve never been able to string together. Go and vote it for Blog Post of the Month via the link here.


Who’s bidding on “ellybabes”?

I was checking out Cuil.com tonight, the new search engine from some ex-google employees. I decided to test it against Google, and I searched for the term “ellybabes”. Whilst Cuil (pronounced “cool”) does return more results than Google (12,929 vs c.12,300), I think its ranking algorithms could do with some work yet. As Twenty commented, you [...]


Random bits

Still haven’t got the inspiration for a full post, so here’s a few more bits that caught my attention over the last few days. —————————– Today is the day! After the slippy-sliding and pandering from the government & police 8 months ago, the law banning 2nd provisional licence holders from driving alone came into force at midnight [...]


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Resume Tag Cloud

Robin had a brilliant idea to run his resume (CV) through a Tag Cloud generator, and perhaps to use this as a visual guide to the dominant themes running through other people’s CV’s. Here’s mine:


Random bits…

Firstly and most importantly, the long awaited day is here! Moo.com have just announced their latest product – full size business cards! All the same rules apply, up to 50 different images per pack of 50 cards, customisable text on the back (which can be done in horizontal or vertical orientations) and best of all [...]


Best Dilbert Cartoon Ever!


Useful Office Ergo Stretches

A playlist from YouTube.


I’ve got internet!

…and a new house, but since I’ve been almost totally offline for 2 weeks, the getting of internet seems more important than the new house at the moment – totally sad?? It’s been a tough couple of weeks, lugging boxes around, packing, unpacking, putting together all the furniture (was there anything we bought that wasn’t flatpack?!?), [...]


Me, a false idol?

Never…


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