Curses - Tagged
So Haydn tagged me. Five things you don’t know about me eh? Apart from my Spaghetti Hoop fetish?
1. I was Junior Irish Archery Champion in 1980. Not as impressive as it sounds. Three of us in the competition and other two were beginners. Never improved after that and gave up in mid-teens. Turns out not everyone else saw a blob of colours down the end of the field and I later found out I was short-sighted.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Interested in helping us test LouderVoice?
Those of you who know me well also know that I’ve spent the past few months working hard on building a new web-site called LouderVoice. We’re coming close to launching the site properly (probably in late January or early February) but before we do we would really like to have some people help us try out the site and tell us what they think.
The plan at the moment is that we’ll be inviting a very small number of people we know into the Beta1 phase in the next few days.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, December 19, 2006
There goes another icon of my yoof
Joe Barbera has died aged 95. I wonder how many re-runs he saw over the years? That man is responsible for a huge number of my favourite TV memories from childhood (and now with Boomerang, as an immature adult):
Tom and Jerry The Flintstones Scooby Doo The Huckleberry Hound Show The Yogi Bear Show Quick Draw McGraw Top Cat Wacky Races Banana Splits And not forgetting the greatest cartoon ever, Hong Kong Phooey!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, December 19, 2006
You'll be getting Internet Explorer 7 pushed to your PC from now on
If you have Windows XP and if it hasn’t happened already then Microsoft appear to be pushing out the new release of the Internet Explorer Web Browser. They are making it optional so you have to agree to install before they do (the security centre logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen that looks like a shield will be yellow with an exclamation mark in it).
For almost all web users who don’t use Firefox as their browser, IE7 is a big improvement over IE6.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Mmm Trebor Fruit Salad
Just as I start grumping that there is nothing on the telly, a chunk of genius appears in the shape of Oz Clarke and James May with “Oz and James' Big Wine Adventure” (Wednesdays 8pm BBC2). I used to watch Oz and Jilly for laughs back in the old Food and Drink days. They were so off the wall I don’t think I ever learned anything. James is of course Captain Slow on Top Gear and knows absolutely nothing about wine.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, November 23, 2006
One Breast Less
Catherine discovered Haydn and Roos' latest blog yesterday, it is called One Breast Less and I don’t think I need to tell you what it is about. This is a shockingly good blog with a raw honesty that caught me off-guard but is a mandatory read if you have any interest in health, illness and recovery.
My granny had a mastectomy due to breast cancer and my aunt has just finished a course of radium so I’ll be reading closely.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Bandon Farmer's Market Blog
I set-up the Bandon Farmer’s Market Blog quite a while back. Progress has been slow with getting vendors to use it and I think this is mainly due to them not being familiar at all with [a] blogging and [b] the idea that they can write something and it appears immediately. I’ve learned a lot in trying to get one or two people set up on it. The main lesson was that if you are not web-savvy, many things which seem obvious to me can actually be insurmountable hurdles to others.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, November 20, 2006
She's a keeper
This is the first set of photos taken just after she was born. Better quality ones with a real camera coming later today. A little cutie despite being a bit mushed. First night went well despite her fantastic lungs which she’ll need in this house.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, November 15, 2006
lots of pain but not much progress
Pethedine in. Some relief. Long morning.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, November 14, 2006
and so it begins
We’re in the bons. Prosta on. Strong twinges already. Expect action by lunch time but my gut says sooner. Lovely mid wife. All in all, much more efficient and calmer story than the last time. More as it happens.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, November 14, 2006