What next Sir Alan, the Amstrad C5?
AMS is really dropping the ball recently, isn’t he? How many years did it take him to finally decide to stop flogging a near-dead horse and put a bullet in the em@iler? Was no-one in the company strong enough to tell him it was the best product to come out of a British company since The Royal Carriage and Wagon company decided to compete against the Ford Model T with their new Shetland model, now with automatic pooh collection.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Movie about Rwanda
About a month ago a guy named Eoin Feeley posted a comment on my July post about 07/07. He asked me to highlight two blogs concerned with a new movie about the genocide in Rwanda called “Shooting Dogs” starring John Hurt.
I was a bit suprised that he referred to my blog as political because apart from the odd dig at Islamo-fascists and their apologists, I mainly talk about food!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, March 10, 2006
Interesting Culinary Vacation Tours of Southwest Ireland
I’ve mentioned Podchef Neal who is based on an island off Washington State on this blog several times and he posts quite a few comments here too which are always appreciated. I noticed the other day that he is proposing to organise culinary tours of Cork and the surrounding regions this summer. A large number of my readers are foodies so I’m guessing this could be of serious interest to some of you.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, March 7, 2006
The Grange Tavern - When only a carvery will do (Structured)
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
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