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Batman Says No

Donncha O Caoimh — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:40:40 +0000

The Fiscal Treaty approaches. Batman will vote NO and fight on against all odds.

Favourite part? Gilmore as Two Face, or the explanation for the Joker’s name. (via)

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Harness racing on Cork’s roads

Donncha O Caoimh — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:42:25 +0000

Two harness racers on the Cork to Mallow road defying Garda attempts to stop them and driving against traffic on a very busy road. Crazy guys, crazy.

The Stability Treaty: How are you voting?

Donncha O Caoimh — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:05:31 +0000

Like all the other European treaties the Irish public is being threatened with doomsday scenarios by both sides of The ~~Fiscal~~ Stability Treaty. Reddit user cianomahony posted the photo above in response.

The Government says that the country won’t have access to any money if we vote no, but the Sunday Times asked the IMF and the Department of Finance if that was the case and they both said the country could apply to the IMF regardless of the outcome of the Treaty. It’s just the ESM we won’t have access to. Today’s Sunday Times goes on to say that Ireland will have to pay 1.27bn Euro into that fund if the Treaty is ratified. Where the hell does that money come from? We’ll get a loan ..

Campaigning has been going on for only a week so far, I haven’t listened to much of what the No side say but right now I want to vote No. I wonder if the Government will rerun the Referendum if we vote No the first time? Fianna Fail and the Greens did it twice, time for Fine Gael and Labour to do likewise?

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The Placebo Effect

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:24:12 +0000

Via The Cork Skeptics who showed this video at their last meeting when Rebecca O’Neill talked about being a health food shop worker. (Audio of the talk here, Colm’s going to love all the pingbacks!)

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Wikipedia Irish Style

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:21:53 +0000

WordPress on Mickopedia via r/Ireland.

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The Irish Indie Bundle is looking for games

Donncha O Caoimh — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:22:40 +0000

The Irish Indie Bundle is looking for submissions. Follow the discussion on Facebook too.

Will there be extra marks if it’s as Gaeilge? (via)

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Luigi’s at lunchtime

Donncha O Caoimh — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:05:24 +0000

Amazed that the place is empty!

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Irish Household Charge SEO

Donncha O Caoimh — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:29:41 +0000

The Government’s householdcharge.ie website could probably do with some SEO love. When I search for irish household charge the first page of results are news websites, a political party and a property website’s blog.

Maybe they need to open a blog there talking up the household charge and, oh I don’t know, making us feel better about introducing a new tax.

I’m obviously not the only one looking either. They don’t even make it easy to give them money.. Not that I or any of the other householders want to either.

BTW – today’s the last day if you want to set up a direct debit. There, that’s the Public Service bit out of the way. Now, where’s my credit card?

So, if you own a house in Ireland, what do you think will happen if you don’t pay this charge?

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Government plans to sell Cork to stabilise economy

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:38:58 +0000

So long guys! (via RTed by troopstorm)

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Three Days in Dungarvan

Donncha O Caoimh — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:42:51 +0000

I spent the last few days in Dungarvan, staying in the Park Hotel with my family. It’s a really nice town, small enough that you can walk around it in half an hour but plenty of places to eat and drink.

I took my camera of course and almost always shot in b/w mode with my Canon f1.8 50mm lens. I cheated a little as I used RAW+Jpeg mode but I’m happy with the results. RAW lets me recover the colour information while the Jpeg records a useful b/w image I can check against during post processing.

I love that 50mm lens but rarely use it so a whole holiday was a challenge. With such a short depth of field it’s really important getting the focus point right. I usually used the center point or a side point rather than trust the matrix to pick out the right one!

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