Tapenade Bistro on N7/N8
This newish place is in the Midway FoodCourt, Portlaoise and is nearly successful in its attempt to do something a bit different.
I had to drive up to Dublin recently (having become over-used to the train) and stopped at Midway on the N7/N8 interchange to grab something to eat. I had spotted a newish place in there the last time I’d stopped for coffee and I thought I’d give it a try.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, December 9, 2007
Text Your Loves and Loathings to LouderVoice
We’re really excited over on LouderVoice by this latest feature. You can now SMS your reviews directly to the web-site. So if you walk out of a terrible movie or wonderful restaurant or just want to get your opinion on any product or service off your chest, now you can. Those reviews will appear within seconds on the LouderVoice site.
The format is simplicity itself:
_Review Rating1-5 ItemName**:** Opinion_
It should look like this on your phone:
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Final Science Week Post: Best Invention of 2007?
How many people are going to plump for the jesusphone in their posts? If Steve Jobs is responsible,it must be magic. Except it’s not, it’s a very nice UI on a phone design that was out of date in 2006 in Europe. So if not a fashion accessory then what? I think the Science Week people really mean “new product” when they say “invention”, otherwise I’m going to have to go a read some science journals to find the latest cure for cancer.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, November 17, 2007
Cork Sailing Blog
We went on our summer holidays to Barley Cove for 11 years in a row as kids. On several of those years we went to Garnish Island via Glengarrif. That was as far as I ever got on the Beara peninsula until last week when I visited Adrigole. I honestly can’t put into words how beautiful it is down there. If I was American I’d call it God’s country. Perfect views on a perfect day made me want to immediately retire and move there.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, November 16, 2007
Science Week: Invention which helps work
Today’s Science Week Question is an easy one “Which invention has helped you most with your working life?”. Of course it is the internet. The highlights of my history with it are as follows:
1990: Learned it existed when I started Masters in UCD 1991: Figured out email, Usenet news, Gopher. Discovered ftp.funet.fi and the world of shareware 1992: First job in S3. Email only. Figured out ftpmail to download programs overnight on 14.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, November 16, 2007
Science Week: Next gadget purchase
Today’s Science Week Question is “What’s the next gadget that you want to buy?”
The next gadget I buy hasn’t been created yet. It’ll be when Nokia take the N95 and the N810 and merge them into one product.
This:
plus this:
It will have:
Quad Band Phone 5MP Camera with xenon flash HSDPA 3G Data Wifi Bluetooth Stereo Bluetooth Audio GPS Touch Screen Slide Out Keyboard Run a variant of Linux TV Out Accelerometer Massive Battery Take massive memory cards Offer full PDA functionality and sync with both desktop apps like Outlook and online apps like Goog Calendar A music player designed for podcasts (remember last spot, bookmark, speedy seek within track) VOIP SIP the same dimensions as the N810 A price tag of less than €400 I don’t ask for much really, do I?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, November 15, 2007
Science Week: Invention of the future
Today’s Science Week question is “What invention do you want to see most in the future”. This is an easy one to describe but it’ll be a long time coming. I want to see an inexpensive non-invasive home medical diagnostic machine that can detect and diagnose a wide range of problems on its own and via a data-feed to the relevant medical experts.
The benefits of such a machine could be enormous
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, November 14, 2007
More Science Week Stuff
Looks like the Science Week guys are hardcore! They’ve hired Edelman to help with PR. I like the idea they came up with. Basically Irish Bloggers have to answer some stuff about their favourite inventions as blog posts during the coming week and we might win a Wii.
Today’s question is “What was the favourite invention from your childhood”.
This is an easy one. The home computer, specifically the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
3G Doctor Signals the Return of House Visits
I don’t normally mention posts that I write on blognation over here but I think this one is probably of great interest to many of my local readers and those in more rural locations in Ireland and the UK.
A company called 3G Doctor in Kerry provides a service whereby you can get a video consultantion with a qualified doctor using your 3G phone.
I’ve written all about it here. I’d be interested to hear what you think and whether the 3G coverage is good enough yet so that it is useful to the people who need it most.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Science Week in November
There is a wonderful bunch of things planned in Cork as part of Science Week which will hopefully increase the interest in science amongst kids. The target audience is 10-16 year olds but I’m sure we’ll drag our 8 year old along to some of it.
It is on from 11th Nov to 18th Nov in various locations around the city. I believe the HQ is City Hall and local tech companies will have stands there.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, October 27, 2007