Archive for November 17th, 2005
Le Singe est dans l’arbre et peut etre l’auto aussi
Posted on November 17, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Gadgets, Personal.
JWZ has a link to a fabulous piece of footage which will give any petrol-head goose-bumps:
Early morning in Paris in 1978 at 140MPH in a Ferrari 275 GTB!
The original story, with lots of updated detail is here.
I’ll dream happy dreams tonight.
[tags]jwz, paris, ferrari, vroom[/tags]
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Numb-nut did his permalinks wrong
Posted on November 17, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Technology.
None of my recent posts were appearing on Planet of the Blogs and I assumed they were doing something wrong. So I finally mailed them today and they were able to suss that my RSS feeds were all buggered. Why? Because I cannot read simple bloody instructions. I wanted to change from the normal Wordpress link style for posts (e.g. http://conoroneill.com/?p=178) to a more meaningful permalink structure (http://conoroneill.com/2005/11/17/pork-from-china/). What did I do? I copied the sample code and forgot to change it for my site. Nitwit. Thanks lads. But even after fixing, the Atom feed is still bunched. So there goes the next hour or two trying to figure out why.
UPDATE: I just got the Atom feed working too. After a ton of googling, it turns out I had to go into the MySQL DB with PHPMyAdmin and hand edit some of the guid entries in the wp_posts table to fix the screwed up old permalink structure. A bit unimpressed that a simple typo in a setting could bugger up the DB like that. But all is well again in Conor-land.
[tags]potb, rss, planetoftheblogs, wordpress[/tags]
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Pork from China?
Posted on November 17, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Blogging, Food.
I set up Google Analytics and AdSense on this web-site for no real reason other than messin. Watching the ads that appear could become a full-time hobby.
Most of them are as expected - “Holidays in Donegal or Galway”. I’ve had a few “buy sausages and herbs from us”. But one made me do a click-thru on my own site: “Buy Pork”.
Hmm interesting. Then I read the detail of the site a little closer, “Buy Pork from China”!
Ye know, I’d almost be tempted by “Frozen Pork Sides Origined in Shandong province, China with high quality”. I don’t know if I could have a communist in the house tho.
[tags]adsense, china, pork[/tags]
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For those of you who have been living in the tora-bora mountains for the past two years
Posted on November 17, 2005, by Conor O'Neill, under Humour, Ireland.
And have never heard of Langerland, get yerself over to www.langerland.com and watch their latest cartoon.
A snot-ejecting moment when Sean Óg’s All-Ireland speech started with “Bhí mé ag dul go dtí an siopa chun rudaí a cheannach”
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“Agus Cheannaigh mé uachtar reoite!!!!!”
These guys should be as famous as Atom Films. Keep it up.
[tags]langerland, cartoon, atomfilm[/tags]
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