Live From The Field
After a night of pints. Or rioja actually.
[](http://conoroneill.com/wp-photos/20060323-032540-10.jpg) And when I say field, I obviously mean bus station. This is really just a post to test that the latest Postie plugin is still working and I can still send picture messages straight from my phone to my blog. Sweet. [tags]Postie, Bus Eireann[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 23, 2006
Waterfall Farm Shop - Why aren't there more places like this?
We were over in Ovens recently looking at patio “toppings” in Irish Aggregates. On the way back I finally decided to check out Waterfall Farm Shop. I’ve known about it for more than two years and passed it a few times but just never took the extra few minutes to have a look.
The farm also appears to have a food distribution business as they had several branded vans parked in the yard.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
What if I suggest a structured recipe format and you critique it?
Between this blog and my posting on eGullet regarding the sort of structure people would like to see on recipes in blogs, I received the sum total of zero/null/nada/nialas replies. The world was about as vocal as that time I asked “so do I look good in these speedos?”
In retrospect I should have suggested an initial idea and then asked you all to improve on it. So read on and start entering comments.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Slow Food Cork City Spring Supper and Slow Film
I found out about this movie/grub combo that is on next Tuesday (28th) on The Slow Food Ireland web-site. Clodagh McKenna describes it as follows:
A showing of the new Irish film ‘Short Order’ in the Kino cinema, Cork at 7pm and following the film a spring supper at Cafe Paradiso at 9.30pm (there will be a half an hour gap so you can have a drink at Reidy’s bar) Short Order is a new film from Irish director Anthony Byrne.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
GoEat.ie - anyone else checked it out?
I discovered goeat.ie recently and have been looking around the site. Overall it seems well designed and they have the usual bunch of reviews and competitions and recipes that you would expect on any food site.
They also have the first ever Irish Video Blogs (according to them). A very neat idea but to be honest the videos are brutal. They look like the sort of thing they used to show in the Savoy Cinema on O’Connell Street years ago before the movie.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 21, 2006
It's against nature, it's against god, it's against everything our society holds dear
Chilli Sauce on Ice Cream.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
p.s. still one of my favourite blogs despite this crime against humanity
[tags] Hot Sauce Blog, Ice Cream, Chilli Sauce[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 20, 2006
Request for Feedback - Structured Recipes
If you’ve seen the various posts I’ve done over the past few weeks on structured blogging and it has all been a bit beyond you, please keep reading, this won’t be.
A discussion had started on the structured blogging mailing list about creating a format for structured recipes. The idea here is that all those people who publish recipes on their blogs would hopefully move to using a common format which provides structure where appropriate but still allows for each person to do things their own way.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, March 19, 2006
I will never slag off Audi again
Jalopnik is one of the two best sites on the web for petrol heads (the other being Autoblog).
Earlier this week they had a link to a wonderful video of Ayrton Senna taking a Honda NSX for a blast around a race track. Just watch his right foot blipping the throttle. Is that what you call toe-tip control? The world really is a more boring place with him gone.
But Jalopnik went one better yesterday.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, March 19, 2006
Example of a Structured Blogging Image Post
License: Public Domain
Hmm, not really sure what this adds over a few simple rel= tags.
Also, “Upload Image” seems to be broken for this (and for the people showcase).
Would it not make more sense to allow URLs over to Flickr etc rather than insisting that the files be hosted locally? I have the same issue with the audio and video post types too.
But I’ll post this anyway so people can see what the format is like.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, March 18, 2006
Example of a Structured Blogging People Showcase
Conor O’Neill Age: 37
Job: Programme Manager, at
Blog: Conor’s Bandon Blog
Blog: Argolon Solutions
Profile: Have lived in Ratoath Co Meath, Kilkenny, Dublin and now Bandon. Went to UCD from 1986 to 1992, studied Electronic Engineering and completed a Masters Degree in it. Have worked in S3, Integral Design, Xilinx, Advanticus Technologies, EMC and Argolon Solutions. Married Catherine in 1997 and have 4 children with another one on the way.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, March 18, 2006