Archive For July, 2006
The impossible has happened. When you're outside over the next few days watch the skies. If you looks carefully you may see pigs flying through the air! Why? My Apple MacBook arrived yesterday and I'm playing with it now. After some initial problems with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router I got the laptop online using [...]
Via Podz, the I [heart] WordPress thread continues and is a sticky on the wordpress.com forum. If you like penguins then you'll enjoy this message! Make sure you turn up your sound too! I'm still quite fond of my original "We [heart] WordPress" on the beach! We Love WordPress
Radio DJ, Ray D'Arcy and Jenny Kelly are expecting a baby in a few months time it was revealed yesterday in the Tribune. For those of us who don't buy that fine newspaper, Ian Dempsey announced the news this morning. Ray and co. were inundated with texts this morning congratulating the couple on their good [...]
Over at IBM Developer Works there's an interesting article on PHP patterns. If you've never come across patterns before it's a good introduction. Just remember that these methods of solving software problems are most useful when you've got lots of code. Using the MVC pattern to print "Hello World!" is probably a little overkill! For [...]
This site has moved. It's now at ocaoimh.ie where I can play with a more up to date version of WordPress. Upgrading was a breeze: I dumped the old database tables and copied them over here. I installed this site with the usual defaults included near-empty tables. Then I fed my old db tables back [...]
I just caught a few minutes of a report on Radio 1 about the dangers cyclists face on the roads and it reminded me of an almost-incident last night. As the sun set last night, I was driving down an urban road when a girl on a bike drifted out into the middle of the [...]
Who really controls the man the White House? Here’s a video interview with the controller himself. Excellent, and enlightening! (via)
What would you do without your national tongue? Richard Waghorne argues unconvincingly that we can do without Irish. My brother Donal provides a very fine rebuttal on his blog. Donal’s reply is startlingly cool and measured, considering how angry I feel after reading Richard’s post. You should definitely read it.
I’m off to San Francisco at the end of the month! Matt is organising WordCamp, a free WordPress conference on August 5th in San Francisco and I’ll be there along with the rest of the Automattic guys. I’m really looking forward to it, meeting people I talk to every day online, hacking on WordPress stuff [...]
