Old Chapel Drag Race - w00t !!
Bloody Brilliant, and we only watched the practice runs.
We positioned ourselves at the finish line on the advice of a steward (“they’ll reach max speed there”). It took a while to get going but the organisation of the event was really professional. Fionn (aged 9 months) screamed every time a bike also screamed across the line. OisÃn hid in a buggy, Shibs was unimpressed and Oscar went quiet.
Most of the family left after a few minutes due to the noise, leaving Oscar and myself to enjoy the smell of burning rubber.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 23, 2006
Bandon River Grill Restaurant Review
Bandon River Grill Food style/ethnicity: Grill
Map
Price: 30 - 40 (Euro)
Location: The Courtyard, New Road, Bandon, Co Cork, Ireland Food rating: 3 out of 5
A few weeks before Easter I noticed a new sign go up where Roco’s restaurant used to be. Roco’s was a middle-of-the-road place which I ate in twice. The food was fine and the place was always hopping. I was very surprised when they shut it down.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 23, 2006
Sushi Saturday
8 years after I first bought a tube of wasabi to make sushi, I finally managed to get everything in one place and made my first ever batch. I followed the instructions in “Rachel’s Favourite Food for Friends”. It turned out damned tasty but not exactly pretty. I’m sure sushi experts would cry over my efforts. Some pictures below. In case you are wondering, the kids medicine syringe was to measure out 30ml of rice vinegar.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, April 22, 2006
Playground in Leap - What's the story?
Headed down to Skibb the morning for a few reasons: give the demon children a sleep, get some fish for a fish pie, go to the excellent playground there. On the way I noticed a fabulous playground in Leap. Beautiful wooden structures all inside a big metal fence. But then I noticed the sign on the gate “closed until further notice”. Anyone know why? If it is due to insurance then I’ll be forced to go to the nearest courthouse, find a savage claiming compo and headbutt them.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, April 22, 2006
Old Chapel Motorbike Drag Race
West Cork Motorcycle Club Annual Drag Race Every year the West Cork Motorcycle Club have a Drag Race near our house. We’ve missed it every year so far but not tomorrow! Well worth a look. Check out this picture to see what you can expect. I actually have no idea at what time it is on, I’ll just listen out for the sound of screaming bike engines and head on down.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, April 22, 2006
Those naked plums do it again
I received the following message from Web Filtering software inside a multi-national corporation today:
They think eGullet, the best food forum on the web, is a GPORN site. I’ll need help with this one. Guava Pr0n? Grapefruit Pr0n? Gremolata Pr0n?
Next week, Firewall rates “Give My Head Peace” site as Humorous.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 21, 2006
Google Adsense - $4 in 5 months. Finally I can buy that Audi RS6
For fun, I set up Google AdSense last year. It is behind those ads you see in the sidebar of the blog. I didn’t expect to make much money and never thought I’d be able to live off the Ad revenue.
I just checked my total income and it is now at $4.02! Woo hoo. It seems to me that there is a very good reason for it - the ads are complete shite.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Looks like Saturday was a success
After all my encouragement to go to Saturday’s Bandon Farmer’s Market I ended up missing it myself. I got up a bit late and had to get ready for our weekend in Rosslare. I ended up squeezed for time and didn’t want to be shopping hassled. So, I headed off with the four angels and left Catherine to plant the garden and paint the loo. Result? Garden good, loo baaaaaadddddd. We’re not quite in marriage counselling but that red has to go.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 17, 2006
Two blogs well worth a look
The biggest hole in the Irish Blogging scene is the lack of women bloggers. I have no real idea why so few women blog, particularly when examples like Dooce are there to show what is possible. It probably just boils down to the fact that, in general (and by “in general” I am in no way trying to invoke a stereotye or in any way label any sub-grouping of humanity. Please don’t hurt me), women don’t get a kick out of geeky gadgets and buzzwords and only start using technology when it becomes genuinely useful.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 16, 2006
My Podcast List
On the off-chance you are interested in having a look at what I listen to on the way to work. I have exported this list from Juice (ex-iPodder), uploaded it to my web-site and I’m now presenting it out using a new OPML viewer called Grazr. Just click here and then down through the entries to see the list. You can even listen to some of them inside it.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 14, 2006