Archives for 2008
Via Slashdot. Stephen Dolan, a student from Trinity College has calculated the “Six Degrees of Wikipedia”. Based on the popular US college game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” – from Wikipedia: The trivia game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is based on a variation of the concept of the small world phenomenon and states that any actor [...]
Yesterday I began to receive text messages from a number I didn’t recognise, from a person called “Jay”. These messages were full of descriptions of what Jay wanted to do to me – and they were disgusting! Normally when something like this happens, the first person that I would talk to is my husband, but [...]
He still loved me – even when I borrowed his clothes He still loved me – even when I threw tantrums He still loved me – even when I couldn’t understand why his illness was affecting my childhood He still loved me – when I acted like a typical teenager and didn’t want to be seen with my [...]
Zenato Lugana 2006 The Zenato Lugana 2006 was provided to me by Sublime Wines to review. It retails for 11.90 from Sublime wines and is made from the Trebbiano grape variety. Mary’s review from the website states: Made on the shores of Lake Garda this wine is as scenic as the area it comes from. It is [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. Getting to the track on race day wasn’t quite as simple as the day before. We set off at around the same time, but traffic ground to a halt about 2km before the motorway exit we needed to take. The first kilometre took us [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. The next morning we left Maranello behind, heading along the Riviera towards Aix-en-Provence, on the way to Troyes. We didn’t have the time to stop off in Cannes or Monaco as we had planned, but the drive was smooth enough. Reaching France also meant that I [...]
Photo owned by James Cridland (cc) Work has me travelling for the next week, I’m off to Arizona to meet my new manager, so posting will probably be light. There are a few scheduled posts to complete the honeymoon series, but I doubt that I’ll get to write any more – too busy visiting friends [...]
Another of my favourite websites is Moo.com, where I buy my mini-calling cards (or Moo cards as they are ubiquitously known). They are quite common within the tech community, but if you haven’t heard of them then here’s a description in Moo’s own words (and pictures): They offer a range of products: Greetings Cards, Postcards, Notecards, [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. The next morning we joined up with some guys from South Africa and New Zealand to be guided around the Lamborghini factory, museum and private collection, the Pagani factory and showroom, the Ferrari Museum and an external tour of the Ferrari factory by our effervescent guide Francesco. We [...]
Well, what a stormer of an announcement today – Bertie Ahern finally got around to announcing that he will be stepping down as Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland on 6th May. While I greeted his stepping down news with delight, I quickly stopped when he mentioned the 6th May date – “That’s my birthday you bugger!” [...]
I’ve written about Blurb.com in the past as one of my favourite sites. In their own words, Blurb is: a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. So we put our minds together, and developed a creative publishing service simple and [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6. The next morning we headed down for a delicious buffet breakfast, which we ate to the sounds of Pavarotti on the stereo and F1 cars testing in the background – I’ve never seen George look so satisfied! We headed off to locate a self-service laundrette to wash [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. The next morning we were once again up bright and early to head back to the track. The party atmosphere was in full swing and the walk in was entertaining enough to keep us from thinking about the blisters on our feet. This time when we arrived at our stand [...]
Well Saturday night’s Random Drinks session (organised via Twitter and our blogs) turned out to be a roaring success, with 14 attendees (plus a couple of blow-ins from my IRL friends). As with any event that I’ve been to like this, it’s not easy walking into a large pub and trying to locate people that [...]
Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4. We arrived in Stezzano, a small village on the outskirts of Bergamo – this was to be our base for the Monza Grand Prix weekend. As usual for Grands Prix, accommodation close to the track is nearly impossible to come by, so we chose a hotel about 45 mins [...]
Parts 1, 2 & 3. From Amsterdam it was time to hit the road again, and head down through the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and finally into Italy where we would pause for another few days. We collected the car at Schiphol airport, loaded Wiesbaden into the GPS as our first destination and we were on [...]
 LOOK FOR THE YELLOW HELIUM BALLOONS TO FIND US TONIGHT. Just a quick reminder about the Random Drinks on Saturday this weekend. If you’re in Dublin and fancy joining us, then we’ll be in O’Neills pub on Suffolk St from 7:30pm. Map and current list of sign-ups on the original blog post. Update: The pub is a bit of [...]
It’s been a long time since I published any posts about our honeymoon last year. After the first couple of posts, which you can read here and here, the project took a different turn as I decided to turn the story into an illustrated book as a Christmas present for my hubbie. Using the software from [...]
Best video so far this year! Just got sent this via K8. Credit to Tim Hawkins
Spotted the photo below in a Spar shop window this morning, right beside the door. Which means that none of the staff on their way in spotted the glaring error (first thing that caught my attention). What annoys me here is that they managed to spell it correctly once and very badly the next time [...]
The Order of the Phoenix Park Twenty Major’s first book, based on the characters from his blog, pulls no punches from the first page. A twisted story about brainwashing the Irish populace into becoming acoustic loving drips, it’s up to Twenty, Jimmy the Bollix, Stinking Pete, Dirty Dave, Lucky Luciano and Ron the barman to save [...]
Sabrina gave a great session at CreativeCamp Kilkenny last weekend on how to blog like a boy – or in other words how to make your blog look great and be user-friendly. Her slides are available here, with her talking points in the comments of each. One of the points that she raised was about blogrolls – [...]
LOOK FOR THE YELLOW HELIUM BALLOONS TO FIND US TONIGHT! Update: The pub is a bit of a maze, so Laura & I are planning on getting there early to stake a claim to an area/tables. I’ll twitter our location once we get settled, so make sure you have twitter updates turned on! If you want [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } WWMD?, originally uploaded by Red Mum. Several days after the blog awards and they are still appearing everywhere! If you were at the Irish Blog Awards and wondered where these came from or what they meant, then [...]
Have you been asked the question “What is Twitter?” or “Why would I join Twitter?” Several people have said it to me, including grannymar. So here’s your answer in a nice video format – Twitter in Plain English:
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