Archive For September, 2007

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?

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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!) [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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!

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All wacked off of Scooby Snacks

You either know immediately what this video is or you’re going to be hopelessly lost .. 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Friends don't let friends see adverts

This post has been a long time in the writing. Ever since I started advertising on my blogs my strategies have been tweaked continuously so consider this post a snapshot description of what I’m doing with Adsense advertising now. This is a long post, but read through it. The plugin I use to do most [...]

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It's a beautiful day

It’s a beautiful day, so I’ll leave you with Queen’s song of the same name.. I’m off outside.

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