Archive For September, 2006
My brother Donal celebrates his first blog birthday today! Go on over there and wish him a happy birthday! Apparently the first post on my blog was on January 1st, 1998. I doubt it was on that exact date but the second post is dated the 1st of February that year. Maybe I was posting [...]
Pat Phelan is organising a dinner on the night of October 17th for anyone interested. Shel Israel and Rick Segal will be there so it should be an interesting and lively night. Venue is the Taste of Thairland, Bridge St. Cork at 8pm. Shel Israel visited Cork last June to attend the Web 2.0 conference [...]
Why list 50 adwords when all a greedy website owner wants is the most expensive one? It’s school loan consolidation, with an average cost per click of $69.16 apparently. I expect to see a lot more blogs springing up around about … now on this very topic. Makes you wonder how much the banks make [...]
If you use the Google sitemap plugin for WordPress it’s probably a good idea to disable the auto rebuild option. This is especially true if you have a large blog and a small server! Go to Options->Sitemap and uncheck “Rebuild sitemap if you change the content of your blog”. You can regenerate the sitemap by [...]
Would you like to have a job where you’re paid to watch Fawly Towers? Mairead on Ray D’Arcy’s show has never seen a full episode of Fawlty Towers so she’s watching the episode with the Germans. Classic comedy!
The Charlie Harper Sucks website really does exist! I watched the episode of Two and a Half Men last night where Rose setup a Charlie Harper hate website so I had to see if it was really there. Unfortunately it redirects to a Warner Brothers site but at least they created a site with that [...]
Press the button on the traffic light, wait for the green man, walk. It’s simple. Cars generally stop and obey a red light or risk two penalty points if seen by a member of an Garda Siochana. Unfortunately they can’t be at every street junction every hour of the day. Jacinta and I were walking [...]
If you have driven past the construction site on Eglinton Street you may have noticed all the expensive looking posters promising something, “better than you expected” and calling it “Ireland’s Biggest Secret”. Right, maybe the marketing department went overboard, but this evening I spotted a URL on the posters: http://www.theelysian.ie/ The brief was simple, create [...]
