Conor's Bandon Blog

Running, Food and Local stuff from a blow-in

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

Software Development Approaches

Who needs SOA or AOP when you have the far more interesting POSD: Politics-Oriented Software Development

O'Neill History

Neat summary of the history of the O’Neill’s. No famous Conor’s sadly. http://www.araltas.com/features/oneill/

More Technorati messing

No idea what I’m doing Technorati Profile

If you're not, you should

Of the zillions of web-sites I access in an average week, only one is unusable with Firefox - the online banking one from the donkey’s over at Ulster Bank. Has someone not told them that even MS now recommend the use of the Sun JVM? Get Firefox and at the very least, learn to browse with tabs. You’ll love it.

Channel 4 gets it right this time

“The Simpsons” is voted the best kids programme of all time. And someone just said that it’s the best TV show of all time. Ye know, they might be right. Nice to see “The Muppet Show” and “Danger Mouse” do so well. But “Bagpuss”? Never liked that show. Nothing ever bloody happened. And a huge relief that they had “The Tomorrow People”. For years I thought I had dreamt that show!

Whew!

My BMI is a disaster. I started on the road to reduction last thursday, but if I fail then it’s good to know this: Pleasantly Plump May be OK.

Brassica Heaven

Yes, she definitely has Walls genes.Sib?al is as big a fan of broccoli as her Nana Rose.

It's a miracle

No, just more dumb blind desperation. Living, as I do, so close to the famous moving statues of Ballinspittle, I love it when other nationalities can act as clueless as us. Statues moving? No? Squint. Moving now? Nah. Here drink this paint thinner. Moving now? Yeah! Wow, that’s amazing, tell the world. Mary Image Still Drawing Crowds Check out the Other Holy Sightings in the side-bar of this one for a belly-laugh.

Project Lifecycle

I was sent this a while back and I laughed my ass off. Inspired single cartoon summary of my working life for the past 13 years. Check it out: Deepak Alur’s Blog