Oh and votes please
For the new blog theme. Like or no like? Like but would prefer a Cork specific image in the header? Don’t like cos it looks like mud?
And while I’m here, we launched blognation Ireland on Monday. It is part of a fast growing global tech news network called blognation and it covers Web 2.0 and Mobile in Ireland. So if you are a techie or in a start-up and you read this blog but not Argolon (you nutter), check out the new site.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Worst growing season EVAH!
My “stick it in the ground and it’ll grow” school of gardening thought has failed miserably this year. The only things that have grown are non-essential herbs, apples, strawberries, sorrel and radishes. And I don’t even particularly like the latter two. Actually, I nearly forgot the one rhubarb plant which provided seven metric tonnes of sticks. Lots of yummy tarts for me (as the bishop….).
So I got thick the other day and ripped up almost everything.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Review of House MD
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - this is fabulous TV.
House MD is one of those TV series I should hate. It stars Hugh Laurie with a put-on American accent as Gregory House, head of diagnostics at a Princeton hospital.
It has exactly the same plot every week. Person comes in with confusing symptoms, starts heading towards death, team keeps trying to figure out what is wrong, use wrong treatment, make patient worse, finally just in the nick if time, they figure it out and patient is saved.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Review of Kettyle Rib-Eye Steak
[Kettyle Rib-Eye Steak](http://www.kettyleirishfoods.com/) <div class="summary">Interesting product from Dunnes Stores. Decent meat and an unusual cut from an Irish Supermarket</div>  <div class="description"> Catherine spotted these Kettyle products in Dunnes the other day and bought the rib-eye. Unlike most steak sold in Irish Supermarkets, this one is totally vacpacked.
I’ve read Hugh F-W complain about supermarket vacuum packs as they are usually full of blood too so that the meat does not dry mature properly.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Yoplait and Summer
We’ve got a big batch of Yoplait Orange and Melon yoghurts (the family favourite) in the fridge with dark fruit flecks in them (blackberry maybe?). Not a big problem but it also happened last year. Now I’ve just realised it was almost exactly a year ago! Very odd. Is one of the summer replacement staff colour blind ;-)
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, July 30, 2007
Review of Hairy Baby Hoodie
[Hairy Baby Hoodie](http://www.hairybaby.com)
<div class="summary">These new hoodies with customised art-work are a brilliant progression from their super t-shirts. Sister loved her birthday present.</div> 
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We’re Hairy Baby fanatics in this house. I treasure my “Are you the farmer” t-shirt (only Withnail fans get it!) and my “People’s Front of Judea” one. Not only are they funny, the quality of the tees is excellent.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, July 27, 2007
SOHO SOLO Ireland
I gave a talk today about blogging to the West Cork Soho Solo Networking Meeting in Clonakilty. I previous gave the same one to the East Cork group. It was very well received and I hope we see a few new blogs coming from them. If you are not aware of Soho Solo, it is a very worthwhile project. As their site says:
The aims of the project are to identify Small Office Home Office Workers(Soho Solos) in the South West of Ireland, to encourage others to relocate or return to the region, to promote Small Office Home Office Working and to offer support to these “new” entrepreneurs.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Craic Pack Invades Dundrum
Just got a mail from old college buddy Niamh Shaw. She has taken the oft-travelled path of Degree in Engineering, PhD in Engineering, Gaiety School of Acting, Fair City, comedy troupe and is now part of the Craic Pack in Dublin.
They’ve been doing comedy improv every Wed & Friday in The Bankers Bar, Trinity St in Dublin for a long time and they’ve just announced that on Saturday, July 28th, they’re going to do an ever bigger and funnier show in the Mill Theatre, in Dundrum Shopping Centre.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Favour from my foreign language expert readers
We’re playing around with some stuff on LouderVoice and we need as many translations as possible for the word “review” in the sense of “a review of a movie” or “a review of a restaurant”.
Ideally it should be a generic word that works in most situations. It would also be better if the words did not have accented characters (I’ll explain that in a later post) and they must be in latin alphabet.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 15, 2007
Review of Wagamama
[Wagamama](http://www.wagamama.ie/),
4-5 South Main Street,
Cork,
Ireland
<div class="summary">Very enjoyable family meal with fantastic kid-centered service. Highly recommended.</div> 
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Our eldest was badgering us yesterday that we never eat in “proper restaurants” so we scooted into town with the plan to either go to Captain America’s (a first for all of us) or Wagamama nxt door (which I’d eaten in last year).
We arrived up and made the snap decision to go for Wagamama.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 15, 2007