Not an April Fool
From yesterday’s ElectricNews:
Irish company Vordel, the XML web services security company, announced the appointment of German firm, SHE-IT as a reseller of its XML security software in the German marketplace. SHE-IT has a strong reputation for delivering security systems integration expertise to leading companies in the financial services, telecoms and industrial sectors in Germany, Vordel claimed.
Anyone else have an image in their head of a southern US good old boy stubbing his toe, spitting out some chewing tobacco and swearing “she-it”, probably followed by “goddam”.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Why Dave Barry is God
From a 1992 Column in the Miami Herald Tribune: Speaking of true quotations, please repeat the statement that Sonda Ward of Nashville, Tenn., swears she heard made by a man expressing concern to a woman who had been unable to get a ride to a church function.
He said: ‘‘Estelle, if I’d a knowed you’d a want to went, I’d a seed you’d a got to get to go.’’ Please un-retire Dave, please.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Bawstan Bound
A week in Massachusetts from 9th-14th. Staying in Framingham, working in Hopkinton. I was in Boston once in 1996 whilst I was working in Silicon Valley and I met up with Catherine there. Great place. Felt small even tho it wasn’t. Brass Monkey weather in November. Looks like it isn’t too cold there now. I’ve already Google Mapped my way from the hotel to CompUSA, Toys R Us, Best Buy and Baby Gap.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, May 8, 2005
Loo Blog
Saw a funny cartoon in The New Yorker (courtesy of sis Fiona) yesterday about guy sitting in traffic, blogging his utterly banal whinges in real-time. Today, I read that Google have launched Blogging from your Mobile Phone. US only for now but hopefully I’ll be able to blog my musing from the lav some day soon.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, May 7, 2005
Tim Nice But Dim
Well it was obvious since Paul was fired but what a disappointment. Tim has not excelled once in the entire series of The Apprentice. Can you think of one thing he did where you went “wow”? The series for me consists of some great scenes involving Paul, James and Saira.
But maybe that’s what Sugar wants - an average MOR guy who won’t challenge him and will do what he is told.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, May 7, 2005
Potential - Not everyone gets to be an Astronaut when they grow up
I’ll be reading this site all day.
Consulting - if you’re not a part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Despair Inc.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Nice Car Mate
That Vauxhall Astra ad is an absolute stonker. I love it. Catches the concept of a petrol-head perfectly.
Oisín, my 3 year old, is already well on the road to being a car nut. But somethimes it’s just spooky. We were stuck in a traffic jam in Killeagh on Sunday and were stopped beside a new Bangle-era BMW 5-Series. Oisín looks out his window and says “that’s the same as grandad’s car”.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Extinct Woodpecker Found
A large woodpecker thought to be extinct for sixty years has been found living in the “Big Woods” section of eastern Arkansas.
I crack me up.
Ok, here’s the right link: Ivory Billed Woodpecker
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 29, 2005
6 Years of Electronic Engineering
I bought my first soldering iron and multimeter by mail-order from Maplin when I was about 16 (1984) to build some add-ons for my ZX Spectrum. None of my creations ever worked :-(
I still have the soldering iron. I finally retired the analogue multimeter only last week after 21 years of sterling service and replaced it with a no-name digital one that I picked up in B&Q for €25.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 28, 2005
Blogs for Dummies
Actually it’s a great tutorial on how to use Bloglines to track RSS feeds of peoples blogs. I have converted fully over to Bloglines for managing my feeds but they still have a lot of improving to do on the actual blog feature. Blogger is still far better for running your own Blog.
Using Bloglines
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 28, 2005