Digging a hole to China
This site has been around for ages but I only discovered it today. It is a Google Maps mashup that allows you to click anywhere in the world and then it shows you where you would come out on the other side of the world if you dug straight down. I was stunned to see that you come out near New Zealand if you dig from Ireland. Many a childhood sleepless night for nothing.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, October 25, 2006
So I told a little white lie
We had an hour to kill in Cork whilst waiting for Oscar to finish one of his many activities. I told them I’d bring them to a playground.
“That was the worst playground ever, wasn’t it Dad?”. “Like really crap, like?”.
Any tips for playgrounds in the County Hall, Model Farm Rd, College Rd, Mardyke area?
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, October 19, 2006
How could they cancel a TV series which comes up with this?
Arrested Development has a lawyer whose ad states, “you don’t need double talk, you need Bob Loblaw”.
C’mon, best play on words ever.
Then tonight they nearly go one better as he announces that he has to go home to write “The Bob Loblaw Law Blog”
Yeah, I’m tired, but I’m still giggling.
Ye wanna know why YouTube is worth $1.6B? Cos I’ve just discovered that they have the clip!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, October 16, 2006
Pictures, Camera Phones, Picture Editing and that Internet
At this stage a huge number of people have camera phones and actually use the camera to take those impromptu pictures. I remember asking why anyone would want a camera phone three years ago. What the hell would you take pictures of? Well, it turns out I had no imagination and I now take pictures of everything and anything.
Now most people take the picture and either send it by MMS to friends n family or just show it on the phone to people later.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, October 15, 2006
Conor's ultra secret Chicken Tikka Masala recipe
Handed down through generations of sufi mystics and carried by the Priory of Sion to Bandon where it remained undiscovered in a secret vault until excavations found the ancient stone etchings, I can now reveal the best chicken tikka masala recipe on the planet.
More accurately, I was given a stocking-filler cookbook by my sister years ago which came with packets of spices. It did lay undiscovered for over five years until I finally used it to make a tikka paste and then used their recipe for chicken tikka.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, October 13, 2006
Broadband is back
If you live anywhere in the Cork/Waterford/Tipp area and have fixed line broadband with any provider then you may have been having problems since last Friday. I was getting 40 kbs instead of 2 mbs since Monday rendering the internet connection almost useless. Eircom fixed it for their customers yesterday and fixed it for their competitors this morning. Normal service should have returned everywhere. Yet another reason for us all to switch over to Wimax and HSDPA wireless broadband when it gets rolled out rather than using a set of providers who clearly couldn’t give a damn.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, October 12, 2006
I'm not eating that, it's for cats
Oisín continues to come out with the funniest lines in the house. He refused to eat his dinner yesterday on the grounds that it was food for cats. Were we trying to feed him Whiskas perhaps? Or maybe KiteKat or Iams? No, it was lasagne.
All of this because his older brother, in an effort to get him to eat it, pointed out that lasagne is what Garfield eats.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, October 9, 2006
New Car Blog
Two of my favourite automotive blogs used to be Autoblog and Jalopnik. I had to unsubscribe from both due to the huge number of posts they were doing daily which I just could not keep up with (same reason I only lasted a few weeks with Blogorrah).
Alex Algard mailed me last week to tell me about a new car blog that he has launched called CarDomain Blog. I have to say it is the dogs for over-aged car nuts like me.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, October 6, 2006
Oh no, can you imagine flying RyanAirLingus to the US?
I love paying €3 to fly to Gatwick but the thought of them running trans-Atlantic flights makes my blood run cold. How many Bullseyes do they think they could sell to the average punter over 5 hours to deaden the headache caused by the yellow everywhere?
On the upside, I’d happily pay €5 an hour to have a PSP embedded in the seat back in front of me. But will he really do that?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, October 5, 2006
Badger, Badger, Sugar, Badger, Badger
I heard the other day that Alan Sugar and Michelle Dewberry have parted ways. What a shocker. If that is Sugar at his people skills best then it’s pretty obvious why he never went global.
All together now Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, October 5, 2006