Conor’s Bandon Blog

• Wossey improved. Gervais funny as ever and John Travolta not bad. FFed throught Gareth Gates and Macy Grey. Wedding Belles good. QOTSA rules #
• Read that O’Leary to be a judge on X Factor. Gutted to find out it was Dermot and not Michael. Now that could have been a great programme! #
• The Read/WriteWeb article on Irish webapps made it to the front page of Digg! Hazzah. #
• Do my blog readers love/hate/not_bovvered about the summary tweets which appear every day over on conoroneill.com? #
• Check out http://aft.donutsoft.net/ for sending tweets from phone using your free webtexts. < 1cent! Ireland only. Way cool. Tested. Work #
• Ach flaw in cunning plan! Twitter number is UK based and Webtexts only go to national numbers. Damn. So close. #

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• Should be a good day. OpenCoffee followed by a meeting about Coworking #
• Top Irish Web Apps including LouderVoice profiled over at Read/WriteWeb! http://tinyurl.com/2662aa #
• Another super OpenCoffee with a bunch of new faces and a person from Corporate Finance. This is the mix I had hoped for. #
• Badger on The Apprentice after-programme. “You have to do more than step up to the plate, you have to eat too”. Someone tell her, would you? #
• Are local newspapers and magazines the last remaining publications to use the word “swanky” when trying to big something up? #

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• Up and at them (done in the voice of Rainier Wolfcastle). Slow start to day. One call, tons of specs. #
• AnthonyC having non-stop pop-up blocking on FF and IE7 for GMail. Anyone know why? #
• Baby’s first solid food not rice but Jelly Bear from her big sister. Grin on face says it all. #
• LazyTwit asks if any of our active LouderVoice Beta Testers use Movable Type? If not, any Movable Type users want to be a Beta Tester? #

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• Worked until 1.30am, now my brain is mush. What can I do? Read a backlog of 20 must-read PDFs? #
• Doing the upgrade from WPMU1.0 to 1.1.1 plus our customisations. Delicate stuff. I should have been a brain surgeon. #
• Looking into Google Apps for your domain. Apart from yesterdays glitch, interested in existing user feedback. Also any news on JotSpot? #
• Any way to get your Google Calendar reminders via GTalk? Seems like an obvious integration. #
• @eirepreneur – I don’t want gtalks for every mail, just the event reminders. Oh and why isn’t Gmaps integrated into location field? #
• On a Google rant now. Why no to-dos in GCal? Playing with “Remember The Milk” integration. Works but kinda obvious hole in the offering. #
• well that took longer than I thought but new WPMU and theme up and running. Hurrah. Dinner time. #
• Google Docs n Spreadsheets growing on me. Tried Zoho for a few mins but didn’t like the default setup on planner #
• Arrgh, I finally upgraded http://tinyurl.com/29jexo to WPMU 1.1.1 today and Donncha just announced v1.2. Long night. #
• Google custom home page not that bad. Have RTM, GCal, GMail and twitter widgets all on one page #

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In a more litigious country, the HSE would now find itself on the end of a class action suit due to the non-administration of the BCG to children in the Cork region. The only region in the country that does not do it.

The HSE now have a moral duty to to provide the BCG to every single person born in this region who was never given it. Or maybe it would be cheaper to fill the Cappagh and Blanchardstown again. 1950′s here we come.

UPDATE 1; Just to clarify – 5 tested positive for the antibody and three of those were due to BCG.

• John Allsopp just release microformats book http://tinyurl.com/2b6mbg. Looks excellent but 4-6 week delivery on amazon.co.uk? #
• Interested to know how any WordPress users have Rich Text Editor turned on? We need it turned off to stop the RTE converting div’s to p’s #
• Google = Global. Google Blog = Valley. “Simply text your flight number to 466453″. Hmm, wonder if that works in Cork Ireland……… #
• @imeallach – I know the technical angles on the editor (I’ve hacked it). I’m more interested in actual usage. Who enables/disables? #
• I’m a huge WP fanboy but the Six Apart products are all far superior at preserving user markup in posts. And Windows Live Spaces? Arggghh. #
• Roos says that Martin Carey in Bandon sells rabbit. Excellent. Never gutted one but should be fun. Lovely meat. Ah pretty bunnies. #
• @PaulWalsh – We want to know what editor our potential customers use on WP. If many have RTE turned off then we have no issue. PollDaddy? #
• Anyone doing Supernova in June or Innovate in May? Both look good. #
• WordPress Rich Text Editor usage poll on LouderVoice blog. http://tinyurl.com/2uk3qj #
• I sooo wish Google would release JotSpot. Using Docs n Spreadsheets to do some mini-specs. Prefer Wiki. Socialtext impressed yesterday. #
• Julian suggests a combined streaky bacon and rabbit come-back. He may be on to something. Martin gave ratatouille recipe. The 70′s are hot! #
• @PaulMWatson – I believe there are several places around Ireland rightly looking at replicating the it@cork idea. #
• Harsh, but anyone driving fast in peasoup fog in Kildare today without lights got what was coming to them. I pity their poor victims. #
• Wife and kids love The Killers. Until now they’ve done nothing for me but goddammit they’re growing on me. Gotta love that last.fm #
• @damienmulley – Blogger Code of Conduct my ass. I have manners, others don’t, you can’t regulate for that. One for emailers too? And SMSers? #
• 3-year old announced she wanted heelies. Got her the old Fisher Price roller-blades with stabilisers out of attic. One happy child. #
• @mattverso – not forgetting Twitter! We could use up 130 chars in each tweet with the appropriate code of conduct byline. #
• No binary of PyLucene for Fedora Core 6. Used to love building from source. Now it’s just a PITA. #

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At what point in the 1980′s/1990′s did back bacon take over from streaky bacon? I assume it was all the low-fat food nazis who caused it to happen. Go to Tesco Wilton now and in an entire row of bacon, you may see one crappy pack of “pale streaky rashers” on special offer. Oh and pancetta of course, which is tooooooootally different.

I always look forward to bacon in US hotels when I travel because they still understand the art of the streaky rasher. Ultra thin and cooked till crisp. At the other extreme here we have these monster thick slices of bland minimal-fat back rashers which do nothing for me and are like chewing through a piece of rope.

Catherine grabbed a few packs of streaky in Martin Carey’s on Saturday. Only €2.50 for a big pack. I put em in a large pan with oil on Sunday morning and cooked them slow for over half an hour. What we were left with was fabulous crunchy bacon that made the ultimate BLT. Throughout the day, as we passed the cooker, each of us would grab a rasher or two. Perfect snack food.

Anyone with me to start a campaign to “Bring Streaky Back!”?

• Brutal nights sleep with the sore elbow. Allegedly slept with arm in air for part of the night! Quiet night on twittersphere. #
• Great way to do Twitter Technorati claim via Mr Messina http://tinyurl.com/2aqbtm. Pity T’rati bombed out 4 times before working. #
• Health Board does it again. After “Sibín O’Neill”, then having TWO children called “Sibéal” they now name Catherine “Mrs Grainne Sheehy” #
• @fergusb – WIll there be a red carpet in Cannes? Madoona? I’d be very surprised if you didn’t find a Shoarama down a side-street #
• When did Calacanis start using MP4s for his podcasts? 185MB transfer to Nokia N70 via USB fails regularly and doesn’t play anyway. MP3 pleas #
• Argh. Spent most of day trying to get to bottom of email issue on loudervoice to discover 5 mins ago that it is a DNS problem. #
• Slaps hand. Non-creatives should not “have a quick look” at an icon problem for four hours. As you can see, a very productive day for me. #
• @tommorris – Started programming aged 14 in 1982 on a ZX Spectrum. Pretty much stopped in college (Electronics). Always done a bit since. #
• @tommorris – even when I shouldn’t be programming. Never do anything big any more but like to do the odd script for efficiency. #

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• Just watched the departed. Superb. Which Hong Kong movie was it based on? Infernal Affairs? #
• @tomraftery – Hope babba is recovering well. Kids and hospitals always scary. Shout if you need anything. #
• Hmm, none of my kids like “Happy Feet”. First half an hour comes across as subtle as a sledgehammer. I also rate “tap” down near “mime”. #
• Fair weather gardener. Set foot out there for the first time this year. Weeded the raised bed and replaced rotten wood on shed. Need a nap #
• Oh never got that nobile twitter app working on N70. Complains about incorrect credentials. Pity. Looks good. #
• I ruined a lovely chicken in white wine, olive and caper sauce by burning the f**ker cos I was pulling weeds. Speedy tomato n garlic instead #
• Drive Manchester to Nordschleife and then last 7 seconds on Nurburgring before crashing. Clip of the month! http://tinyurl.com/328ssv #
• Oh dear, first episode of new series of Jonathan Ross rubbish. Harry Potter, Thandie Neton and some boxer. Yawn. FFed through it all. #
• Elbow paralysed after weeding. So much for Udo’s oil cure. Voltarol and Sauvignon Blanc seems to be helping. Another great “House”. Bed #

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