The Grange Tavern - When only a carvery will do
Two saturdays ago, the parents, the kids and I headed off to Clon to go to the playground and then check out Deasy’s in Ring. We have had several recommendations for Deasy’s and I thought a good pub lunch would go down nicely and suit the sprogs too. It was deserted on our arrival and my mother eventually found someone who told her they only do evening meals and sunday lunch.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Structured Blogging Event Aggregation
I spent quite a few hours last night working through many of the Event/Calendar sites on the web to see if any of them supported the automated collection of events from blogs which use the hCalendar format in structured blog posts. So far I have found tons of discussion but no actual implementation. Does anyone out there know of a site which does this (or know of one under development)?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
The important science of Potato Thermodynamics
A phrase I have used many times in the past: “Only in Japan”.
Check out this story over on Lifehacker on how to peel a potato with you hands. Yet another piece of must-see pop culture from YouTube. I think I’m getting addicted to that site.
I have my doubts if it’d work with a good old fashioned Irish floury spud. But I’m going to try!
[tags]Potato, Thermodynamics, Japan, YouTube, Spud[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Bandon Farmer's Market on the way
It had been thought that the sad passing of Peter Crowley, who had been the main driving force behind the setting up of a Farmer’s Market in Bandon, would result in the plan being shelved. However, I was thrilled to read in the current edition of the Bandon Opinion that the organizing committee have not given up and Peter’s daughter is now involved.
The plan is for the market to take place in the Mace Carpark in the middle of town.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, March 6, 2006
Double Entries are coming
No, this isn’t a post about accounting. I’m trying to do my tiny little bit to help the Structured Blogging effort.
To this end I’ll be creating a set of pseudo-duplicate posts over the next few days. Each pair will consist of an unstructured “normal” post and a matching structured one.
Hopefully I’ll be then able to feed the structured ones into some aggregators like kritX and this will provide us with a set of screenshots showing how you can go from randomly organised posts (e.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, March 5, 2006
Did someone mention snow?
In case I needed any reminding of how much our quality of life has improved since moving to Cork after 17 years in Dublin.
Red Strand, Ardfield, today during a perfect break in the rain.
[tags] Red Strand, Ardfield, Clonakilty, Cork[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, March 5, 2006
Can't let this pass without comment
PXN8 creator and Sxoop founder Walter “not Wally” Higgins is interviewed over at eHub.
He is getting 1000 impressions a day at PXN8 - that is damned impressive. If you haven’t checked it out, you really should. It allows you to edit pictures online including pictures you have stored over at Flickr. Can Photobox be far behind? You da bomb Walter.
[tags]pxn8, Walter Higgins, Sxoop[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 3, 2006
Hulk Hogan vs Philip Yaksplitter Johnston in Warhammer Smackdown
Get ready Grapple Fans for the bout of the century. Exclusive Sky Sports coverage of the Warhammer 40k Premier Competition & Invitational Only, Grand Tournament.
In the Green corner, Philip Johnston, fresh from battle success as far apart as Dublin, Cork and Birmingham. This week, Nottingham is bracing itself for the onslaught of 149 of Europe’s other top gaming nerd-meisters.
You’ve seen Superbowl, you’ve seen WWF, now get ready for Total Global Annihilation with the Dice of Doom!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 2, 2006
The best comedy on British TV?
“The IT Crowd”? Not a hope. “Shameless”? Better. But the hands down winner has got to be “The Apprentice”. Thank god for Sky+ so I could keep pausing to catch my breath after collapsing in gales of laughter.
Last week I called them a bag of spanners. This week it was “The Spannerettes”. A gaggle of gormless girls and only the crazy one was talking any sense. I was getting seriously worried as I found myself agreeing with everything Jo said.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, March 2, 2006
WBW - World's Best Wife
Cream
Stewed Apple
Murphy’s Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Sauce using O’Conaill’s Chocolate
Lemon Juice = Pancakes!
The woman is beyond compare.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, February 28, 2006