Archive For November, 2005

WordPress guy, meet Microsoft guy

Jacinta and I met Tom Raftery, Robert and Maryam Scoble this wet and cold morning to do the tourist thing in Blarney! Robert and Maryam were really unlucky with the weather today but that didn’t dampen their mood! Want to see a picture? I’ve posted a photo of us after coming down from the castle. [...]

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Us in Us!

Myself, Ryan and Peter all made it into Ray D’Arcy’s photography book, US! I bought the book today in Waterstones after my brother texted me to tell me it was on sale. Some of the images are amazing! I got several shots into the book and I’m delighted!

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Upgrading to Ubuntu Breezy

I resisted for as long as possible, but I finally upgraded to Ubuntu Breezy. It was quite easy in the end. The upgrade notes and this page were of some help of course. Be warned, that if you have GNUcash installed on Hoary, you should uninstall it. I didn’t and ran into these problems with [...]

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Top 25 Irish Blogs

Michael Larkin has posted a Top 25 Irish Blogs based on Technorati stats. The inbound links for this blog are most definitely skewed by the fact that I’m a WordPress developer because there’s a shiny link in every new install! I’ll be very happy when In Photos shows up on such lists. I haven’t read [...]

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Cork blog – all about Cork City and County

Now, this is interesting. The Cork blog covers topics related to, you guessed it, Cork! For some reason I found the entry about busses around Cork fascinating, possibly because busses are such a major part of urban life! 2007-11-01 – Bah, looks like the domain is gone. An MFA site is there now so I’ve [...]

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Cute Kittens

Who could resist cute kitten pictures? Well, Tom could of course

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Mario Unleashed – live!

I still prefer Gianna Sisters but this video of the Super Mario music and icons played live made me smile

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Me and WordPress.com

Matt finally reveals what perhaps a few people have known or suspected for quite a while. I’m working with him, Andy and Ryan on WordPress.com. I am very very happy with what we’ve achieved so far and can’t wait to get cracking on the new features planned! That does explain why I don’t post as [...]

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Kayak.com – cheap flights and travel search engine

I’m not looking for cheap flights anywhere now, but when I am, I may very well use Kayak.com. It labels itself as, “not a travel agency, it’s a search engine that’s free to use.” (via)

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Photos From Space

APOD had two interesting photos over the last few days: APOD: 2005 November 14 – Everest Panorama from Mars – click on the image for a *huge* panorama! Lunation – animation of the moon over the course of a month. Jintle has a lot more space photos too!

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