James rises to the challenge:
Browsing Posts published in February, 2007
I’ve gone and got a Twitter account anyway.
What is Twitter you may ask? Well it is a web-site where you say what you are doing right now. You can do it via web, SMS or IM. Cos we all have such interesting lives and all our friends need to know exactly what we are doing at every moment in time. “finger up right nostril” “finger up left nostril” “bogey rolling” “bogey flicking”. Still it’s probably more interesting than the next Marian Keyes pot-boiler.
The reason I signed up was not cos of the original purpose of it but more for the interesting things that geeks are doing with it. Tom Morris scrapes Tube delay notices and twitters them so you can subscribe and get those updates via the same methods you use to send twitters. Kinda like the the District Line saying “right now, I’m bunched” “right now, some leaves are annoying me”. Neat.
It’s also far easier to twitter from your phone than it is to blog. So I will try to do a bit the next time I’m travelling: “I’m driving down the M8″ “I’m swerving into oncoming traffic” “I’m flying through the air”.
Looks like I’m one of the cool kids now. Check out what I’m doing in the sidebar of the blog. Next thing you know I’ll be getting a Second Life account. Nah.
What a great line-up for the final! Well done to everyone who got through, there is some real quality in there. A ton of my fave Irish blogs are listed. Looking forward to the night of the awards already. Will the concierge mind the baby tho?
Damien just posted the short-list for the Irish Blog Awards. I got through in all four categories in which I was long-listed. I think I need to lie down.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now – I have the smartest, sexiest, wittiest, funniest, bestest readers on the planet. Thank you all for responding so well to my daily emails begging you to vote for me. They’ll stop now.
You’ll hate yourself in the morning if you don’t.
Just to whet your appetite, you can expect more of this sort of thing in 2007 from The Bandonites/Bandonians/OldChaplers.
(Via A Hamburger Today)
Poor Oisín is terribly unlucky with his front teeth. When he was 2-ish he fell off a changing table and impacted one of his front teeth up into the bone and split the lip and gum. Nothing could be done except let it heal. That tooth was much shorter than the other one until yesterday. Then yesterday evening, he fell off a stool and did a repeat performance, this time knocking out his other tooth and making a mush of his upper lip again.
Once again, the advice from the doc was to do nothing and let it heal. He rang the dental hospital and they concurred particularly considering they are his baby teeth.
But we are worried about the full teeth and what the likelihood is that they’ll come down ok. Anyone else have kids where this happened? I’d hate for the poor mite to have to get implants at an early age. I know too many people with those already.
I hope he gets something nice in town with Catherine today. The tooth fairy gave him a tenner cos she felt so sorry for him.
Ivan Pope has voted for me in the Irish Blog Awards. Ivan runs a great tech company in the UK called, wait for it……Snipperoo. I knew there was a reason I put his widget in the sidebar of this blog rather than my business one!
In any case, 21 hours to go in the voting. Check out my nominations to the right there, check out all the others over at Jason Roe’s blog, and if you think I’m worth it, gis a vote.
And check out Snipperoo, if you like adding extra functionality to the sidebar of your blog, it really is sweet. I’ll be adding it to Argolon and LouderVoice as soon as my currently very dicky tummy settles down.
Catherine, ReviewBlogger extraordinaire, has posted her review of our meal in Cafe Paradiso last Saturday. It was bloody lovely.
So far so good, I’m able to guess most of them.
Ah crap. JD posted a comment here earlier letting me know that he went to Gourmet Burger in Portlaoise the other day and they have already closed down to concentrate on their Dublin business. I’m so pissed off about this. I don’t think it is lack of market in this case, but lack of marketing. How many thousand cars go up and down the N7 and N8 every day? I never once saw an ad for them. I did see some attempt at putting a truck trailer on the side of the road at Christmas with ads for the overall Food Court but that’s it. People do need to know you exist before they’ll try your business.
Anthony from Ummera mentioned to them that I had blogged about them. Not once did they contact me or post a comment on this blog telling us what they were trying to do and how they’d love it if people would tell their friends. For gods sake, it would’ve been free advertising. Arrggggggh. Clueless Train Manifesto.
Surely someone with a bit more marketing nous and budget can make a go of such a great idea in an ideal location?
UPDATE 1: David from Gourmet Burger has posted an excellent comment here explaining exactly why they shut down Port Laoise. It makes total sense.
Now I’m between a rock and a hardplace aka Iarnród Eireann Sambos or O’Brien’s Sambos. Where’s me tupperware?
