September 2007 – Something Odd!

Such bitterness and anger

A week away from the Internet really desensitizes one to the ranting and raving that is part and parcel of life online. Reading through some of my feeds is a struggle. This did cheer up my morning however! Does anyone else have good news?

Donncha

Back from Dingle

Oh wow! We really have a beautiful country here in Ireland! We are just back from a week in the town of Dingle, Co. Kerry (or An Daingean as it’s officially known, why can’t they have both English and Irish names on the signs? It’s silly. Locals stencilled “Dingle” on many of the signs anyway!) and it was both amazing and refreshing. 7 days without Internet access. Could you survive? I admit I was tempted by the local net cafe but I resisted and we wandered the roads and explored the beaches of that rugged coastline instead. Weather is always […]

Photography

Kinsale Art Gallery

Haydn’s Gallery in Kinsale is now showing my work and Ryan’s as of this week. I visited the framer on Monday where I signed a number of prints and I have to say I’m very impressed with the prints made by those Hewlett Packard Z3100 and Z6100 printers. I wish I could print all my stuff on them! If you’re in the area, call in, say hi to Haydn and browse around. The gallery is open every day but Monday and is situated on the quayside in Kinsale. Here’s a map of Kinsale courtesy of Yahoo. The cross-hairs mark approximately […]

Movies , Music

Don't Stop Believing

Thanks to Ray Foley I have Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” going through my head all the time. Just a bit of fun for your auditory organs on a cold Wednesday night. JD, the main character in the tv series Scrubs is a huge fan of Journey. The same song made an appearance in that show too. Just try to ignore JD’s preachy soppy talk over bits Posting has been light on this blog because I’m too darned busy but check out the photo of my son Adam I posted on my photoblog today. Yes, I may be biased but I […]

WordPress

GPL'd MT vs GPL'd WP

Mark has a great post about the release of the GPL’d Moveable Type and the differences between it and WordPress. Welcome to fork city!

Music

All wacked off of Scooby Snacks

You either know immediately what this video is or you’re going to be hopelessly lost .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHDYfoRYcqQ Yes, Fun Lovin’ Criminals and their first hit, “Scooby Snacks”. Marvellous tune. I saw them when they played in Cork a few years ago and unfortunately they sucked because the sound quality was crap. Brilliant band recorded, not so great live. *sigh* They do however deserve an award for the most gratuitous use of bikini clad young ladies in a music video for Loco:

blogging

Verify your comment

Verify your comment As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This test is used to prevent automated robots from posting comments. Oh dear. How many times have I clicked submit on a Typepad blog comment form and moved on to the next site only to accidentally come back hours later and discover the CAPTCHA waiting for me? I don’t think I’ve lost a comment yet, but they could have put the CAPTCHA on the same page as the comment form. If that’s impossible, the comment form should warn […]

WordPress

WordPress MU 1.2.5

A new release of WordPress MU, the multi-user, multi-blog version of WordPress is now available. This is a security release to address issues brought to our attention by Alexander Concha who I must thank for his unfailing patience while we sorted out this release. Edit: this release is based on WordPress 2.2.3. Unfortunately a last minute bug crept in where post titles looked like post slugs when viewed on your blog. I quickly rolled together a new minor release, 1.2.5a which has an updated wpmu-functions.php. The download page has been updated too. If you have already updated your install, all […]