No, just more dumb blind desperation. Living, as I do, so close to the famous moving statues of Ballinspittle, I love it when other nationalities can act as clueless as us. Statues moving? No? Squint. Moving now? Nah. Here drink … Continue reading →

I was sent this a while back and I laughed my ass off. Inspired single cartoon summary of my working life for the past 13 years. Check it out: Deepak Alur’s Blog

I’ve seen plenty of mentions of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine but I only just tried it for the first time today. Bloody ell! Put in www.conoroneill.com and it gives old snapshots of my web-site going back to 2001. You … Continue reading →

I’m doing a trial of a client-hosted tool called w.bloggar to see if it can work reliably with Blogger and reduce the overhead of making posts. Seems fine so far for the simplistic stuff I do.

I’ve been trying out del.icio.us for a week now and I still don’t get what the big deal is. Yeah it’s handy to have the online bookmarks. The RSS feed is kinda irrelevant for oneself but I suppose if someone … Continue reading →

Sam’s earlier homage to Yakult as read out on the Gerry Ryan radio show a few months back. I cannot believe this did not win a prize. ————————– Let me share with you my tale of woe, It happened not … Continue reading →

No more Princess Bride quotes I’m afraid. Sam entered a world-class poem into a Gerry Ryan Pot Noodle competition today. Unfortunately she was not selected to go on air (unlike her last piece of genius which was up there with … Continue reading →

I wish someone had told me this in late 2001. It took me until late 2002 to figure it out for myself. Best Laid Plans

We don’t have it too bad for restaurants down here in Cork. We’ve had great meals in Gleesons in Clonakilty, Casino House in Kilbrittain and Broly’s in Bandon. Unfortunately most of the places in Bandon target the lower end of … Continue reading →

OK-bleedin-Computer? How stupid is the average Channel 4 viewer? Fat-bloated-prog-rock-whinge-fest pap voted the greatest album of all time? Maybe it isn’t so shocking when you learn that they also voted The Verve (the Verve!) higher than Jimi Hendrix, The Smiths, … Continue reading →