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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 – [...]
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:
Seeing that Google Maps now allows open collaboration, I’ve started a European Travel Map that allows anyone to add to it. View Larger Map Feel free to add in any useful info you can think of: Hotels to avoid, ones that are good Memorable restaurants The best pubs & clubs Engaging museums or art exhibits I would envisage that in the future, [...]
Nokia have announced a battery recall for some BL-5C phone batteries manufactured between Dec 2005 and Nov 2006. In very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Since so many people carry Nokia phones, I though it might help to post [...]
If you’re a geek like me, you’re always being called upon to fix computers and explain new websites and concepts to your friends and family. A while ago a short video did the rounds on blogs and email, explaining RSS in plain English. It was quite popular and now Lee LeFever is back with another [...]
Oh God, I’ve been meaning and promising to post this for ages, and now that the wedding is out of the way I no longer have an excuse! Our wedding was originally planned for 120 people, but as a lot of them were from overseas we ended up with 85 at the ceremony and meal. [...]
Interesting Argument About Global Warming – Watch more free videos
Maybelline Superstay Lipcolor Stays in place for 16 hours On my regular trips to the US, I’m always asked to pick up tons of Maybelline [...]
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, [...]
Today I set off on my 3-week round-the-world odyssey. So far I’ve flown Dublin -> Chicago and am currently waiting for my flight on to Phoenix. Then on 19/20th it’s Phoenix -> San Francisco -> Hong Kong -> Saigon/Ho Chi Minh And finally on 24/25th it’s Saigon/Ho Chi Minh -> Hong Kong -> [...]
Last week I flew from Dublin into Paris and on from there to Tel Aviv. Security on internal European flights was always more severe than internal US flights (pre-9/11), and since the threatened attacks in the UK a couple of years ago, it’s been even tighter. At each checkpoint I need to remove [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m part of a virtual team in work, with 2 members and my manager in three different states of the US and 2 of us in Ireland. 95% of our meetings are done over the phone, so we’re well used to viewing documents from each other via NetMeeting or Communicator. One [...]
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 [...]
I have some French friends of friends coming over to Dublin for a 2 week English placement tomorrow. They’ve asked me to take them out on Saturday night to give them a flavour of Dublin nightlife, which should be easy enough – a few traditional pubs, then onto Temple Bar for the wilder side. Then [...]
Very interesting video and good to see a usage of new technology to try and spread a message. Easy to see how it could happen here or anywhere too… From here: http://video.sheriff.org/psa_cartheft.shtml With thanks to my safety department at work.
With Xmas coming, people are starting to buy their Christmas presents and more and more of these are being bought online. If you’re anything like me, then you try to get the best value for money and I’ll certainly be doing some of my shopping on ebay this year. One thing that bothers me about [...]
One of the reasons that I hadn’t blogged over the past few weeks (apart from being sick) was that I had got bogged down and behind in all my surfing. I read a ton of blogs and news sites via NewsGator every day and if I don’t make time every day I soon fall [...]
It’s been another week since I last posted, this is not going as well as I thought! Things have just really ramped up in the last week and I don’t think that it’s going to get much better throughout July. Quite a few things on over the next weeks, including the visit of Anne and [...]
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