Conor’s Bandon Blog

• Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire passed the time. Another late night. Back to Bandon in the morning #
• Wow, Rosslare to Bandon 100% improvement in cop coverage. One at Carrigtwohill, Ka-Ching and one in Innishannon, Ka-Ching-Ching #
• One other cop – tailgated me for two miles out of Kilmeaden. Finally I pulled into hard shoulder and he passed at 70mph. Late for lunch? #
• Fantastic weekend with family. now back to work. #
• Forget the web, wife should become a professional gambler and support us all. Just won a few bob on the Grand National. #
• Amanda Peet is one of the most under-rated actresses doing both movies and TV in the past five years. Yeah another enjoyable Studio 60. #

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• Gosh the bloggysphere must all have taken an easter holiday. It’s soooo quiet out there. #
• Easter Egg Hunt starting soon. Oisín worried they’ll be put in the dogrun and the dogs will get them. He should be more worried about adults #
• Dear PaddyLazyWeb, is there any way of putting a .forward on a free eircom.net email account? #
• @topgold, no time to read Damien, too busy online #
• Balmy. Horrible winter forgotten already. #
• Learning all about XBox modding. Oscar decided he wants modded old-school XBox instead of Wii for birthday. Suits me, €100 less! #
• @donncha – InPhotos.org a bright spot on an otherwise dull bloggy day. Off to a Folk Park to non-twitter for a few hours. #
• Sunday Independent plagarising blogs after doing a hatchet job on them recently. As I said then, smell the fear. http://tinyurl.com/yoobcc #

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• Wow, 6 of us in room and they all slept despite their daddy’s snoring. Up 7.20. Sooo glad weather is good so they can play outside #
• Spam gone mental in the past week and Akismet letting quite a bit through. Added Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behaviour to blogs to assist #
• Why does Bad Behaviour cause 400 Error on conoroneill.com but not on argolon.com or blog.loudervoice.com? No joy on google #
• FON up and running between Rosslare and Tagoat. Only €3 per day. All proceeds go to the conoroneill benevolent fund. #
• Both CBS in US and BBC in UK refuse to stream Amen Corner live to Irish IPs for my Da. The joy of web-proxy sites! #
• Nephew just pointed out that web proxies are how they get around all the lockdowns on their machines in school! #
• Bandon to Rosslare. One cop at Carrigtwohill at the site of that lethal piece of arrow straight dual carriageway where no-one has ever died. #
• 22 year old french wine. Strange crust on cork. Not great but drinkable. Oldest wine I’ve ever quaffed. Thanks Dad. #

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• I can’t stop thinking of the word Payola. Anyhoo, off to Rosslare en famille to go to a house with 18 people! #
• 4 out of 5 in bed despite noise of 14 other people. FON nearly live in Rosslare. Kids lovin hanging out with all their cousins #
• Sifry to step down as CEO of Technorati? Wow, the rumours were true. No smoke etc. #

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• 7-year old has discovered “am I bovvered”. Promised to show him Catherine Tate vs Doctor Who on Comic Relief #
• Can we have an EU-wide referendum to ban the use of the phrase “I’ll give it 110%”? Particularly on The Apprentice #
• Running Thunderbird 2.0.0pre. Rock solid and fewer problems than 1.5. Still has stupid “new mail notification” bug when spam is filtered. #
• considering using GMail fulltime but with backup using fetchmail to grab everything via POP and store on server here #
• @imeallach : trust no-one! My data on my machines is the rule I live by. I just let others “borrow” it. #
• Hope Google MyMaps isn’t bad news for Click2Map as I really like their product. #
• Azureus -> Zudeo -> Vuze. Whatever ya wanna call it. New site vuze.com #
• This time tomorrow Rosslare will have its first FON access point. Should have coverage of up to 3 or maybe even 4 houses #
• Nice bit of TJAMC to block out sound of fighting children outside so I can get to grips with Spam Karma 2 on WPMU #
• Tina Turner “River Deep Mountain High” – In my top ten of all time. Even the crappy non-Spector version I’m listening to now. #
• So now I know what journalistic integrity and factual reporting looks like, I think I’ll stick to the wild west of blogs. #

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• The Jesus and Mary Chain are playing Electric Picnic 07. I felt too old for outdoor gigs at Guns n Roses in 1992, what hope now? #
• it really does look like the non-stop bluescreening on my as-new Latitude D420 was due to Vista. XP rock solid on it. Damn, I like Vista. #
• All Google properties down or Cork routing problem? #
• Woo hoo, back on top for google search of “Conor O’Neill”. In constant war with pub chain of the same name in USA. Blog Awards did the trick #
• Co-incidence? You decide. http://tinyurl.com/y9dchw and http://tinyurl.com/2nd3nk #
• How much does Vodafone Ireland charge you and caller if you set redirect on your mobile to landline? Or to Skype-In? #
• @damienmulley – eircom upgraded exchanges to what? 24MBs broadband for everyone? #
• Courtesy of Sweary: http://tinyurl.com/2qawa4 . This is the “next python” stuff I was talking about recently. Up with this kind of thing! #
• Nice cuppa tea and a biscuit with TSL, TSG and MiniMe. We’re awfully civilised down here in Cork. #
• Looking at world map on kid’s wall. Scranton is marked in the USA. The equivalent of Slough in the US Office. Maybe not so small after all. #
• Bloody chocolate manufacturers. Why aren’t the sweets inside the easter eggs like they used to be? Surely slave labour could do it cheaply? #

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• @JasonCalacanis – Watching you interview Ev on the phone. And I need video for this why? MP3 please, MP4 is for turtleneck wearers. #
• Does Twitter public timeline contain all updates or only a selection? Was trying to build a Yahoo pipe to find all tweets targeted at me #
• Does Twitter public timeline contain all updates or only a selection? Was trying to build a Yahoo pipe to find all tweets targeted at me #
• Vista laptop arrived back “repaired” i.e they replaced Vista with XP!! Stable so far, will monitor closely. #
• Damn, couldn’t stop myself looking at Heroes page on Wikipedia and ruining some surprises. I’m an idiot. #
• Just realised how weak Thunderbird address book is. Imported CSV into an address book but no way to bulk add all to a mail-list. What can? #
• Just invited all the LouderVoice Beta Testers to start publishing reviews to their blogs. Problem reports already which saves us pain later. #
• Ended up doing CSV->LDIF in TB on XP. Then LDIF->Evolution on Fedora and then drag-drop to mailing list in Evolution. All to BCC a few #
• didn’t think of CRM. Good idea! #
• doh, forgot to use “d” to send that message direct. #
• New design proposal for LouderVoice looks sweee-it! #
• Another awesome US Office and a pretty good Studio 60. Very tempted to get first series of Heroes on DVD and watch all the way through. #

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• Nice mention of Irish OpenCoffees and Irish start-ups from Saul Klein. http://tinyurl.com/26snpw #
• Might even consider installing iTunes and stop calling Steve Jobs “Damien Thorn” after the EMI announcement of DRM-free music downloads #
• Steve Jobs, Damian Thorn, EMI, Thorn-EMI. Oh no, the apocalypse is upon us. #
• Ulster Bank Online Business Banking still stuck on IE4+ or Netscape 4.7. This level of incompetence shouldn’t be allowed near the web. #
• @PaulWalsh – Ulster Bank has a FAQ page an accessibility. Unfortunately it’s not *cough* very accessible #
• EuroVPS DNS giving me gyp. Normally expect that to work out of the box without tweaking. Need an Ops guy. #
• Thought I had tons of baby leaf lettuce seeds. Don’t. So planted cos, rocket and carrots. Saladini and scallions tomorrow. #
• @donncha – I tried Digging your InPhotos SEO post too and they can’t access the URL. DNS problem at their end? #
• Just registered corkopencoffee.com and corkopencoffee.org. Pointing them both to the upcoming page for now http://upcoming.org/group/2849/ #
• Spent day doing EI feasibility study grant claim. I’ll never be an accountant. #
• Windows Media player can’t play MP4s and Quicktime is a disaster on Windows. Trying Democracy player now #
• So much for that idea. I click on anything in Democracy player and it says “action is not a registered protocol”. Handy, thanks. #
• Did the same moron design all DIY web-sites like B&Q, Woodies, Atalntic? Try searching for cuprinol. Feels like 1995. #

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• High quality April Fools in our house. “Look Dad there’s a dinosaur behind you” #
• Best April Fools so far: “Eventful switches to an all-Twitter interface”. http://tinyurl.com/ysx2kh #
• Reminded that I was convinced GMail was an April Fool when it was announced. #
• Casino Royale now on equal footing with GoldFinger as my favourite Bond movie. Finally caught it on DVD. Superb. #
• For fun pulling my feeds OPML into RSSBandit. First desktop reader I really like. Have to use it due to Trac protected feeds. #
• Caught up on tech reading. Now to plant some lettuce. #
• Weeding, digging and raking done. Only the seeds to go now. #
• How much did EI/IDA/etc spend making “Responding to an Influenza Pandemic” and sending to every business in Ireland? And why? #

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• 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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