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Been swamped at work the last few weeks, but in the current climate that’s nothing to sniff at! All these 12 hour days take their toll however, and even though I’m nearly fully recovered from my ergonomic injury (8 months of physio later), the last thing I want to do when I come home of [...]
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 – [...]
I was at the inaugural PodCamp Ireland in Kilkenny on Saturday, which proved to be a really fun day. As it was shortly after the honeymoon and I was still tired AND I don’t podcast, I was simply planning on turning up as the driver for my mother, Grannymar, I had no plans to talk or [...]
How’s your grammar? For a lot of people I know, it’s not very good… Test your knowledge here. I got 100%.
I’ve been himming and hawing about whether I should write this post or not – the last time I opened my mouth to stand up for girl bloggers (choosing of categories for the las Irish Blog Awards) I was shouted down quite vociferously! But I think I can get away with this one…. K8 recently [...]
Darnit, I’ve been tagged by Grandad, so I now need to do some thinking. Eight things that you didn’t know about me: I’ve played in two ‘men-only’ rugby matches when I lived in France. First time was for the local town team second string, they had 14 players for a match and the opponents [...]
If you’re not familiar with the letters and numbers above, they are US movie classifications. Via the Limerick Blogger this week is a little service from Mingle2 (a dating service I believe) that looks at your blog, website or My Space page and then gives it an appropriate rating based on the words used within. [...]
Another one from Mingle2, via Paul Walsh this time. Apparently I’m 84% addicted to blogging, which makes me more addicted than Paul! 84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
I’ve had various drafts of this post floating around my head for a while, but I was pushed into action this week by a post by Flirtysomething (which has since been removed) – she linked to an article in the Sindo and asked if it was similar to one of her blog posts. Well, [...]
Donncha will be delighted! I finally got moved over from Blogger to WordPress thanks to the wonderful Niall from Blacknight! Niall slaved away over my blog for an evening and managed to undo all the screw-ups that I had mangled my blog with! My Archives hadn’t been working properly before but they are good [...]
So who are you? I’m the infamous ellybabes. What’s your real name? If you have a good hunt around the internet you should be able to find out – but I’m not telling! Why do you have a blog? ‘Cos I felt like creating one, and being able to inflict my ramblings on the world. Why don’t you [...]
Nominations are now open for the 2007 Irish Blog Awards. The field is strong this year, and I doubt that I’ll get nominated for anything, but you never know. Twenty is bound to be a shoo in for a few awards again – how he keeps up his phenomenal content in such a prolific fashion [...]
Conor O’Neill posted about Roos and Hadyn’s blog entitled One Breast Less this week, so I popped over for a nosy. They are posting about Roos’ experience with breast cancer, it has been prevalent in her family and she’s now dealing with it herself. I took time out and read all the posts [...]
Just thinking of something that came up in the pub after the Blogging the Election Conference when someone asked me where I was from: ‘Northern Ireland originally.’ I replied. The questioner immediately tried to engage me into a conversation on Northern Irish politics and see what my opinions were. ‘I’d rather not discuss that.’ I continued. ‘Why?’ came back [...]
I came across something yesterday that may develop into quite a neat little project… 365 fewer belongings The ‘give it away girl’, based in Seattle has decided to blog about giving away/selling one of her possessions every day for a year… I think it’s going to be quite interesting if she keeps it up. [...]
One of the undercurrents running through the day-long “Blogging the Election” conference in Dublin is a follow-on working group for elected officials. It’s a little like merging “Writing for the Web” with “Effective Blogging”. Anyone who reads blogs appreciates blogs with content more than blogs with pretty adornment. Sourcing quality content and then presenting it [...]
‘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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
It’s been ages since I posted, but hopefully I’ll get more regular at this again… I finally got around to updating my website and worked out how to host my own blog, and even modified the style sheets for it myself! HTML is not as easy as people make out – the basic idea theories [...]
The title of that should really be “George has given up smoking“! To try and keep his mind off the cravings I suggested to him that he should try a blog whenever he felt the need. He did and he’s turned into a more prolific blogger than me!! Have a read and give him some support…
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