Isaac's Mini-Review
Isaac’s Food style/ethnicity: Modern Mish-Mash
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Price: 40 - 60 (Euro)
Location: 48 MacCurtain Street, Cork City, Ireland
Food rating**: 2 out of 5
We went out with some vendors last night to Isaac’s in town. I’ve often heard it mentioned in the past. It was jammed at 7.30 when we arrived and was still jammed at 9.30 when we left. Fantastic room with great decor and a very nice feel to the place.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 6, 2006
Bandon Farmer's Market on Easter Saturday
Bandon Farmer’s Market Begins: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 10:00 AM
Ends: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 at 2:00 PM
**Location**: <span class='location'><p>The Old Market Garden Bandon, Co Cork
Ireland
I was thrilled to receive an email from Dianne Curtin, one of the organisers of the Bandon Farmer’s Market and food writer for the very fine Bandon Opinion. She brought up a few points which I’ll cover here.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 3, 2006
Photos from Farmer's Market on Riya
Like many geeks, I signed up for Riya the moment they went into public beta. This is a photo sharing site like many others (e.g. Flickr) but with the twist that it has advanced “AI” techniques for recognising faces. So if you upload many pictures of the same people and train Riya a bit, then in future it will be automatically able to recognise those people in future photos and tag them accordingly for search purposes.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 3, 2006
Slight colour blindness
This would be funny if over 2000 people hadn’t been murdered by terrorists in the past thirty five years on this island.
I was just reading the latest edition of my local Bandon Opinion and saw an ad by Sinn Fein Bandon encouraging people to wear the Easter Lily.
Let me just quote the important bit: “combining the green, white and saffron of our national flag”. Green……White…..SAFFRON? Which national flag are these cretins referring to?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 2, 2006
Yahoo Mail Beta Screenshots
As requested by Jerry, here are some screenshots. What makes the ads even worse is that they are animated so it is impossible to concentrate on reading the e-mail content because they are so distracting.
[tags]YahooMail, YahooMailBeta[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 2, 2006
Inaugural Bandon Farmer's Market a huge success
I’m delighted to report that the first Farmer’s Market in Bandon was a resounding success despite the awful weather. I’m already looking forward to next months and I hope they consider moving it to every week if the crowds hold up.
First off, apologies for the shockingly bad quality of the photos. I have the aesthetic eye of a blind person.
I headed up initially just after 10am with two of the kids.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, April 1, 2006
Buffalo Wings, mmm tasty but not so hot
I’ve made a few half-hearted attempts at doing chicken wings over the years. Usually in the oven and usually burnt beyond all recognition. I now realise that you add the sauce afterwards as anything with sugar will burn.
Recently I spotted a bunch of blog postings about buffalo wings (mainly related to the Superbowl I think) and decided I wanted to try and do them properly. I’ve always found people raving about Elephant & Castle chicken wings to be a bit weird.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 31, 2006
Ice-Cream Disclosure
I have written some very complimentary things about Murphy’s Ice Cream recently. In addition, Kieran’s blog has become, in a few short weeks, one of the best in the country, IMHO. I gave Kieran a few tips on blogging software recently and was gob-smacked when he sent me a fabulous gift of some ice-cream and chocolate sauce (via the very facilitative Urru).
Now that I have made that disclosure, I feel comfortable in continuing to rave about their products.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 31, 2006
Yahoo Mail Beta -finally! Initial impressions
Months after I signed up, I finally got access to the new Yahoo Mail Beta programme. I’ve been using Yahoo mail as my “we are a web-site, give us an email address” address for over ten years now. In that time, I don’t think it has really improved one iota in usability apart from the addition of spam catching. It has always been slow, clunky and riddled with obnoxious massive ads.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 31, 2006
Two words: Green Wing
Tonight 9.00, Channel 4.
From the last series:
MAC to his surgical team: What can I tell you? A few ground rules. No bombing, no running, no petting, no diving and no inflatables. In fact, probably best to leave all swimming related activities until later ; this is after all, an operating theatre.
[tags]Green Wing, Channel 4[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 31, 2006