First Post from w.bloggar
I’m doing a trial of a client-hosted tool called w.bloggar to see if it can work reliably with Blogger and reduce the overhead of making posts. Seems fine so far for the simplistic stuff I do.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 22, 2005
del.icio.us
I’ve been trying out del.icio.us for a week now and I still don’t get what the big deal is. Yeah it’s handy to have the online bookmarks. The RSS feed is kinda irrelevant for oneself but I suppose if someone was stalking me, they might be interested in what sites I am interested in and what tags I put on them. I take back what I said about tags in my previous Bloglines post below - they are actually handy for finding stuff by category (like GMail).
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 22, 2005
Just discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sam’s earlier homage to Yakult as read out on the Gerry Ryan radio show a few months back. I cannot believe this did not win a prize.
-------------------------- Let me share with you my tale of woe, It happened not that long ago.<o:p></o:p>
I went to the cinema with my date,<o:p></o:p>
My tummy was in a terrible state.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p> </o:p>
I eat too much, I was such a glutton,<o:p></o:p>
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 22, 2005
Pot Noodle
No more Princess Bride quotes I’m afraid.
Sam entered a world-class poem into a Gerry Ryan Pot Noodle competition today. Unfortunately she was not selected to go on air (unlike her last piece of genius which was up there with T.S. Eliot and she got to read out to the listening public). So, in order to give it the publicity it deserves, here it is in it’s entirety.
The Pot heads<o:p></o:p>
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 21, 2005
Inconceivable!....That word. I do not think it means what you think it means
I wish someone had told me this in late 2001.
It took me until late 2002 to figure it out for myself.
Best Laid Plans
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 21, 2005
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
We don’t have it too bad for restaurants down here in Cork. We’ve had great meals in Gleesons in Clonakilty, Casino House in Kilbrittain and Broly’s in Bandon.
Unfortunately most of the places in Bandon target the lower end of the Market and it’s nice to see Broly’s trying something better. It is a coffee shop/cafe during the day and they re-jig for more upmarket dinner at night. Good tasty food.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 20, 2005
I knew it, I knew he was faking
OK-bleedin-Computer? How stupid is the average Channel 4 viewer?
Fat-bloated-prog-rock-whinge-fest pap voted the greatest album of all time? Maybe it isn’t so shocking when you learn that they also voted The Verve (the Verve!) higher than Jimi Hendrix, The Smiths, The Stone Roses and The Doors. What can be the cause of the destruction of the brain stems of the average British TV viewer? Cocaine? E? Fluoride? Tony Blair? PS2? I despair.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 18, 2005
And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva...
We are nearly a week into our Sky+ Box ownership. It’s not often something far exceeds your expectation but this bloody thing does so with ease. The wee beauty can record two channels at the same time. There is some very impressive buffer management going on in there. We have set a bunch of recordings of weekly shows plus any movies that catch my eye no matter what time they start.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 17, 2005
There is something you don't know. I am not left-handed
Finally got around to collecting together the list of other bits of software I use (mainly at home). But first off, I should be given a thorough thrashing for not including XEmacs in the first list.
I first encountered XEmacs on HP-UX in Philips Eindhoven in 1995. Up until then I had used the VAX editor and a few crappy freeware PC ones. This thing was a revelation - syntax highlighting, tons of extensions, call-out to make, gcc, whatever.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 15, 2005
You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles
Nostalgia time, 80’s fans. Due to unprecedented public demand (currently at zero requests), I am making available my classic ZX Spectrum games at no cost. Each of these 4K masterpieces, which took months of pubescent angst to complete, requires either an actual ZX Spectrum or an emulator to play. My two favourite emulators are EmuZWin and ZXSpin. The current version of ZXSpin seems to have some problem finding ROMs so maybe stick with EmuZWin for the moment.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 14, 2005