Never get involved in a land war in Asia
I keep a “link-blog” over at Bloglines. It is just a set of links to other peoples blog postings and sites with stories that caught my eye. I’ll put a permanent link to it on this blog when I get a chance.
Overall I’m happy with Bloglines but I’m tired of old posts constantly re-appearing as new. Is Feedburner any better in this regard I wonder?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Unemployed in Greenland?
I was watching The Princess Bride for the gazillionth time the other night and had forgotten how many great one liners it has. So the next few postings are all going to have completely unrelated titles from that movie.
Last year I bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 video capture card. The main reason was to transfer an ancient (vintage 1980) family video to DVD and also to transfer all our Sony HandyCam Video-8 to DVD.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The Apprentice (UK)
I never got into the US version of The Apprentice. I think mainly because I’ve always thought of Trump as a tacky buffoon. I remember being brought to Trump Towers in 1987 by my American cousin (whirlwind tour of NY in one day including WTC, St Patrick’s Cathederal and The Statue of Liberty) and thinking - how can you spend so much money and end up with a place looking so cheap?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 4, 2005
Favourite Software Tools
Not flu - vicious throat infection and tonsil infection. Still in bits. Still agony to swallow saliva. So up late again. I got a new twin-CPU machine in work on Wednesday. I decided to write a list of all of the tools I definitely needed to install on it in addition to the corporate installs. I assumed it it would be 10 or 15. Bloody hell, more like 40. Some are obvious, others are quite nichey.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Dungarvan Follow-up
I was home sick all day today - vicious flu. Slept most of the day so now it’s midnight and I’m wide awake. But my day was brightened by a letter we got in the post from the secretary of a small Kilkenny GAA club. When we had stayed in Clonea Strand Hotel, there had been a lot of shouting and banging in the middle of the night for about 20 minutes.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Bloglines vs FeedonFeeds
So I’ve been using an RSS Aggregator called FeedonFeeds for a long time now. The reason I’ve always liked it is that it is server based and caches the data in a MySQL DB. I have it installed on the Fedora box at home and can connect to it via the DSL connection from anywhere. So I have one centralised location for all my feeds. The caching is also handy as I found a lot of the older aggregators would only cache the titles and not any of the content, and for sites that turnover their RSS links quickly, a lot of the items used to be gone by the time I’d try to read them.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 17, 2005
Funniest Damn thing I've read in a long time
From the Onion: Irish-Heritage Timeline
Sample: “1487 - In a decision still regretted today, Irish let a few British friends stay in Belfast”.
This must have been written by a Paddy. Makes me proud to be Irish.
Unfortunately, as I spent 8 years in the Scouts as a kid and had to march in the pissing rain every March 17th in the Paddy’s Day Parade in Kilkenny, I now have a pathological loathing of the whole day.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 17, 2005
Saturday in Dungarvan
We spent Saturday in and around Dungarvan visiting Catherines cousin Maria. They live near Clonea Strand which is a fantastic beach. Myself and the boys whiled away an hour or two digging holes and filling them with stones. We stayed in the Clonea Strand Hotel - a good mid-market place with some fantastic (non-ironic) 70’s interiors. Big high ceilings and open stairs. Beds could do with replacing but a top spot with great kids facilities.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 14, 2005
50 Gmail Accounts to give away
I now have 50 Gmail invites available. So if you want one, mail me at cwjoneill at gmail dot com nad I’ll dish em out on a first come first served basis. I can’t recommend Gmail highly enough.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, March 6, 2005
Test Hello Blogging
High-5!!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, March 2, 2005