Offaly Bad Driving
27/12/06 00:00 Filed in: General
Nonsense
There has
been so much written in Irish blogs about drivers
that it might seem superfluous to add anything more.
But as a newly-installed resident of Laois, I feel
that I should write something. Not about Laois
drivers, I should stress, but those from Offaly.
Here's a short guide on how to drive in Offaly, particularly of you want to pass yourself off as a native Offalian:
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Here's a short guide on how to drive in Offaly, particularly of you want to pass yourself off as a native Offalian:
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Merry Christmas
24/12/06 21:48 Filed in: General
Nonsense
Signing off
for the festive season, I'd like to wish all visitors
to this site a very Happy Christmas.
Lights
24/12/06 21:35 Filed in: General
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Yes, We Know It's Christmas!!
22/12/06 23:44 Filed in: General
Nonsense
For the last
month or six weeks, radio playlists have become
drearily formulaic. Go into any shopping centre and
you can guess what music will be playing before you
set foot in the place.
OK, I admit that I'm probably a teensy bit more cynical about Christmas than most, but by Jesus, I frigging hate Christmas music. Every year, it's the same ould shite that gets dusted off and wheeled out. The greatest offenders:Wait! There's More…
OK, I admit that I'm probably a teensy bit more cynical about Christmas than most, but by Jesus, I frigging hate Christmas music. Every year, it's the same ould shite that gets dusted off and wheeled out. The greatest offenders:Wait! There's More…
Gratuitously Cute Christmas-Themed Pic
21/12/06 23:40 Filed in: Personal
Being the
besotted first-time parents that we are, my wife and
I dressed the wee one up in a little Christmas
outfit, took a blast of photos of her, and then used
one of them to make a Christmas card. (Whether we
will keep this level of activity up for any further
offspring is a subject of debate among my siblings.
My elder sister, herself a mother of three, drew my
attention to a poem by Ogden Nash:
First Child…Second
Child.)
Anyway, this is from that photoshoot, when Aoife decided that sucking her thumb was more rewarding than having her photo taken.
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Anyway, this is from that photoshoot, when Aoife decided that sucking her thumb was more rewarding than having her photo taken.
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Blast From The Past
21/12/06 22:56 Filed in: Blogging
One of the
earliest entries on my old blog was about Newgrange,
written this day two years ago. As today was the
winter solstice, you might like to have
a read of it
again.
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Great News For Western Mac Fans
21/12/06 22:39 Filed in: Mac
There was
some welcome news for Mac fans of in Galway recently,
with the opening of a new shop specialising in Apple
products.
3G, one of the big players in the retail mobile phone market, is also an Authorised Apple Reseller, and it is they who have opened the new store in the Eyre Square Centre in the city centre.
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3G, one of the big players in the retail mobile phone market, is also an Authorised Apple Reseller, and it is they who have opened the new store in the Eyre Square Centre in the city centre.
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Surely Not…
19/12/06 00:30 Filed in: General
Nonsense
Signs Of Frustration
18/12/06 23:53 Filed in: General
Nonsense
I have been
doing a lot of driving recently, as is the case every
December. In the last month or so, I have been to
almost every extremity of the country, travelling on
motorways, N roads, R roads and letterless roads.
The one thing I find really frustrating about driving around Ireland (apart from the shit roads) is the general shittiness of road signage. For example:
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The one thing I find really frustrating about driving around Ireland (apart from the shit roads) is the general shittiness of road signage. For example:
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Just A Thought
18/12/06 23:43 Filed in: General
Nonsense
I was
scanning the headlines of the tabs in Centra on
Sunday morning, and one in particular caught my eye.
I think it was in The Star, and it said something
like "Killer Will Go To Funeral", the jist of the
story being that the killer of Marlo Hyland will be
in the congregation of his funeral, to pay his
respects to the man he dispatched to oblivion.
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The MacBook Pro That Had To Go
18/12/06 22:56 Filed in: Mac
Jim, a long-time Mac user
and has just sent back his new
Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro
to Apple
and asked for a refund.
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BUPA's Withdrawal
15/12/06 00:31 Filed in: Politics
BUPA's
decision to pull out of the Irish market leaves the
PDs, and Mary Harney in particular, with a lot of egg
on their faces.
For a long time, the PDs have sold themselves as the champions of the free market, competition and deregulation. That a PD minister (and former leader of the party) could preside over the implementation of such an anti-competititve monstrosity as risk equalisation is a bad joke. That she should just shrug her shoulders when the main competitor to the VHI folds its tent and leaves, shreds her credibility completely.
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For a long time, the PDs have sold themselves as the champions of the free market, competition and deregulation. That a PD minister (and former leader of the party) could preside over the implementation of such an anti-competititve monstrosity as risk equalisation is a bad joke. That she should just shrug her shoulders when the main competitor to the VHI folds its tent and leaves, shreds her credibility completely.
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Headline
15/12/06 00:25 Filed in: Sport
I'm not a
cricket aficionado by any stretch of the imagination,
but my wife is an avid follower. The third Ashes Test
is on at the moment and England bowler Monty Panesar
has been in devastating form.
I'm going to check the back page of The Sun in the morning, to see if their headline chimes with my suggestion.
I'm going to check the back page of The Sun in the morning, to see if their headline chimes with my suggestion.
Sure...Sure...
13/12/06 23:15
I'm not
normally one for wringing my hands and asking what's
the world coming to and saying things are desperate,
but the events of the last few days could drive even
the most resolute to considering phoning Liveline.
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Busy, Busy, Busy
12/12/06 23:52 Filed in: Work
Up to me
oxters with work at the moment, so little time to
blog. I have plenty of ideas, but when I finally get
to sit at the Mac of an evening, I'm too knackered to
gather my thoughts effectively.
One idea I had stemmed from the story that thousands of Irish people were going to New York and Boston to do their Christmas shopping. I thought a rewrite of the Pogues' classic song of emigration "Thousands Are Sailing" might be appropriate.
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One idea I had stemmed from the story that thousands of Irish people were going to New York and Boston to do their Christmas shopping. I thought a rewrite of the Pogues' classic song of emigration "Thousands Are Sailing" might be appropriate.
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Fly On The Wall
07/12/06 22:54 Filed in: Mac
Doug Morris,
Group Chief Executive of Universal Music, having
agreed with Microsoft that Universal will get $1 for
every Zune sold, is
looking longingly at the iPod and wants a
piece of it. Wait!
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Silly Joke
05/12/06 23:15 Filed in: General
Nonsense
I can't
remember exactly where I heard this - I think it
could have been on Today FM.
Construction workers building the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh find a network of copper wires buried several metres below Holyrood. Archaeologists examine the find and come to the conclusion that the ancient Scots had an advanced telephone system in prehistoric times. Wait! There's More…
Construction workers building the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh find a network of copper wires buried several metres below Holyrood. Archaeologists examine the find and come to the conclusion that the ancient Scots had an advanced telephone system in prehistoric times. Wait! There's More…
A Short Musical Interlude
05/12/06 21:54 Filed in: Music
Apple have
introduced a "publish to web" option for iTunes
Playlists, so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
It's a selection of some music I have been listening to over the last year or so. Not necessarily a "Best of 2006" or anything like that, as some of it dates back to 1998.
If you feel motivated enough, you can buy it in its entirety from iTunes, or just pick individual tunes off it.
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It's a selection of some music I have been listening to over the last year or so. Not necessarily a "Best of 2006" or anything like that, as some of it dates back to 1998.
If you feel motivated enough, you can buy it in its entirety from iTunes, or just pick individual tunes off it.
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Thierry Ennui
04/12/06 23:50 Filed in: Sport
Could
Arsenal's captain be on his way out of the club? On
the face of it, it would appear not. Thierry
Henry
insists he will finish his career
at Arsenal, and that there is nothing in the rumours
of a rift between himself and Arsene Wenger.
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Refuge Of The Lazy Blogger
04/12/06 22:33 Filed in: Blogging
Going through
the referral list from your traffic stats is seen by
some as a lazy way to get material for a post, so it
should come as a surprise that this is my first time
to do it.
Some that caught my eye recently:
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Some that caught my eye recently:
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What To Get The Mac Lover In Your Life
03/12/06 22:04 Filed in: Mac
Under €50:
A six-month subscription to ScreenCastsOnline.
Don McAllister's weekly video tutorial on Mac apps, tips and tricks is absolutely invaluable. (Not just Mac either, by the way. Don has just started a series of screencasts on what Google has to offer.) For $25, you get 26 weekly shows, mostly about 20-30 minutes in duration, with superb production value. If this was twice the price, it would still be a steal.
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A six-month subscription to ScreenCastsOnline.
Don McAllister's weekly video tutorial on Mac apps, tips and tricks is absolutely invaluable. (Not just Mac either, by the way. Don has just started a series of screencasts on what Google has to offer.) For $25, you get 26 weekly shows, mostly about 20-30 minutes in duration, with superb production value. If this was twice the price, it would still be a steal.
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You Know You're Living Down The Country When...
03/12/06 21:54 Filed in: General
Nonsense
...you see an
unattended BMW 320 outside a Centra with its engine
running, as I saw this morning. That would last about
0.4 seconds in Dublin.
...your local corner shop doesn't stock The Irish Times, but they have all the British tabloids.
...you can pull up on a double-yellow line outside the bank, go in and arrange a mortgage, safe in the knowledge that you won't get a ticket.
...shops close for lunch every day, at 1pm on a Saturday, and for a half day Wednesday.
...your local corner shop doesn't stock The Irish Times, but they have all the British tabloids.
...you can pull up on a double-yellow line outside the bank, go in and arrange a mortgage, safe in the knowledge that you won't get a ticket.
...shops close for lunch every day, at 1pm on a Saturday, and for a half day Wednesday.
An Obvious Omission
03/12/06 00:25 Filed in: General
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Maybe They Really Meant To Do This...
01/12/06 23:19 Filed in: General
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On the face
of it, Threshers,
the biggest
chain of off-licences in the UK would
appear to have been caught out
by its own web carelessness.
On the company's website, an offer was made to suppliers to avail of a special 40% discount, by using a special coupon that could be downloaded. It appears that more people that they planned got wind of this, and about 800,000 vouchers have been downloaded, and the company will have no choice but to honour them if presented in any Thresher shop.
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On the company's website, an offer was made to suppliers to avail of a special 40% discount, by using a special coupon that could be downloaded. It appears that more people that they planned got wind of this, and about 800,000 vouchers have been downloaded, and the company will have no choice but to honour them if presented in any Thresher shop.
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Some Silly Links
01/12/06 22:57 Filed in: General
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OK, so you
like wine. And you like dogs.
Put the two together and you get ... Winedogs
I know this is not genuine, but it's funny anyway:
Put the two together and you get ... Winedogs
I know this is not genuine, but it's funny anyway: