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Tweets on 2007-04-09

Posted on April 9, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-08

Posted on April 8, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-07

Posted on April 7, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-06

Posted on April 6, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-05

Posted on April 5, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-04

Posted on April 4, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-03

Posted on April 3, 2007, by , under Tweets.

@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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Tweets on 2007-04-02

Posted on April 2, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-04-01

Posted on April 1, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-31

Posted on March 31, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-30

Posted on March 30, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-29

Posted on March 29, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-28

Posted on March 28, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-27

Posted on March 27, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-26

Posted on March 26, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-25

Posted on March 25, 2007, by , under Tweets.

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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Tweets on 2007-03-24

Posted on March 24, 2007, by , under Tweets.

Bed 12.30, up 6.30am, 5 kids need feeding. Sorted. Now for Sossie Saturday and then off to do ShareIT in UCC. #
Tried to brush 7-year-old’s hair. “noooo, I let my pillow decide my hairstyle”. Smartass. #
@TomRaftery – 1 x bouncy castle. 1000 x sweets, crisps and crap usually does the trick for our gang. Or Chuckies! #
Jenny gave great presentation on communications at ShareIT. Me up next. #
@damienmulley – well done on ShareIT. I had a great time. Sorry I had to bail early. My poor back too. Will put up PPT tomorrow #

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Tweets on 2007-03-23

Posted on March 23, 2007, by , under Tweets.

Hafta do a PPT for ShareIT tomorrow in UCC. If you haven’t signed up to attend, do! http://tinyurl.com/3dtknc #
Hmm, the Planet Feedreader with some regexes may do the trick for my cunning plan and not require Yahoo Pipes. Fun for later #
@PaulMWatson – SIngle biggest gripe about Flickr is lack of “private URL” you can send to non-members to view family pics. Real drawback. #
@damienmulley – I shall sey zis only wance. #
Blummin Skype+Paypal – why do they want a new Credit Card from me? They already have one. Used Gizmo instead. $3.70 for 20 mins to UK mobile #
@PaulMWatson – I watched half an episode last weekend and despite my best efforts enjoyed every second. #
Phew presentation for ShareIT done. Supposed to be an hour, I’ll just have to talk reallllly sllllowly. Attendee profile will be interesting #
It’s 4.45, it’s friday, it must be curry time. Damn, used up all my tikka paste, need to make some more. #

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Tweets on 2007-03-22

Posted on March 22, 2007, by , under Tweets.

Oisín aged 5. “We should keep having more kids until we have enough to buy a limo”. A limo to school would be awesome I must admit. #
Holy Crap – firebomb attack on cop station in Bandon! Previous most exciting event there was when Fionn puked in the waiting area. 1 injured #
Anyone ever get Palm Tungsten T working with Nokia N70 via bluetooth to get 3G data connectivity? Non stop probs. 6230 worked fine. #
Mark Pilgrim moving to Google! Now that half the world’s Python gurus work there, any chance of Python Blogger libraries lads? #
@damienmulley name and shame the non-paying awards sponsor. Does that leave you out of pocket? I’m sure Irish bloggers will help out. #
@eirepreneur As the message gets out around the greater Limerick area of the value of Open Coffee, the numbers will definitely swell #
Sittin’ Pretty by The Datsuns – 3 minutes of pseudo-Heavy Metal perfection. Ooh ooh, anyone done a last.fm to twitter mashup? #
“You idiots! These are not them! You’ve captured their stunt doubles!” Love it when your kids enjoy the same stupid movies as you. #
Hurrah, Vista laptop being replaced so it looks like it was a hardware problem. Will be a mobile warrior again soon. #
Via tommorris. New browser for Palm http://www.wapuniverse.com/. Works on TT! But still have N70 data problem #
Dell Latitude D420. Tiny 12.1″ job but core duo so quite fast. First Dell laptop that has really impressed me. Will dual boot Ubuntu soon! #
Not much work happening tonight as I have Studio 60 and Heroes. Looooove the Japanese guys in Heroes. Doctoro Spocko. #
@elana – getting Studio 60 and Heroes on Channel 6. And I said I’d never watch a TV3 clone. Actually have lots of good US stuff. #
OK, done for the night. latest code deployed. Should start seeing LouderVoice reviews peeking out from the odd blog here and there. #

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Tweets on 2007-03-21

Posted on March 21, 2007, by , under Tweets.

Well Yahoo Pipes has fried my brain so it’s bed-time. #
Lots of offers to do our CSS+XHTML work. Hurrah. Blogger publishing working (but messy). Figured out regexes in Yahoo pipes too. #
Casio returned watch for fourth time rather than replacing it. Different fix this time. I wonder how long it’ll last before screwing up? #
Off to Farran to talk to a dev. Back around lunch-time. #
Not convinced by phonics/fonics. 5-year old just did his ABCs as Ah Buh Cuh Duh Eh Fuh Guh. Red Book with black dots worked for me. #
Finally! Ballincollig/Watergrasshill/Carrigtwohill dual-carriageways up to 120kph and Old Chapel down to 50kph. Key is “appropriate speed”. #
Watching classic Curb “I’m surprised Hitler didn’t just kill all the toupee people”. Spoken like a true fellow slaphead. #
W00t, just spotted this via Alex King. http://www.tinytwitter.com/ Twitter app for mobile phone. No more bazillion SMSes. Checking now. #
For N70, jad file no good. Open in notepad to get URL of jar. Or directly this: http://tinyurl.com/37hgoy #
Feedburner now enabled on web2ireland. Back to another session with Yahoo Pipes. #
The Yahoo Pipes discussion board seems to have no facility to subscribe to a thread via RSS or otherwise. Cmon it’s 2007 already. #
No CDATA or markup allowed in pipes regexes due to bug. Damn, there goes that cunning plan until they fix it. May have to write real code! #

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