My annual fitness frenzy from Jan 4th to Jan 5th is now thankfully at an end
After walking quite quickly from the car to the office today in order to burn those extra 4 calories, I suffered slight dizziness at the bottom of the stairs with the thought of walking up them. Luckily I came to my senses and can now happily slob out for another 12 months.
The Unfit Comic Strip just gets better and better. This is a ripe time of the year for it.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, January 5, 2006
Diner won't be dining at the Diner again
Ach, I hate giving bad reviews of places. I genuinely want every place I eat in to dazzle me. A few months back a new place opened in Bandon - "Jack O'Dwyer's Diner". It caught my eye instantly because I had only just been blogging about [the dearth of fab and interesting burger joints in Ireland](http://conoroneill.com/2005/06/25/burger-innovation-in-ireland/). Of course I was concerned that it would just be another crappy chipper with a bit of an image makeover but deep down I was really hoping that someone had had the vision to make a great diner in Bandon that would put the likes of the Eddie Rockets of the world in the shade.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Mr. Yoest's Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter
Sibéal may only be two years old but I'm already preparing for her teen years: Mr. Yoest’s Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter
Technorati Tags: kids, daughters, dating
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Ummera Smoked Eel - From Ballymore Eustace to Bandon
I have promised to blog the Ummera Smoked Eeel since the day I got it and I actually ate it about a week after receiving it in December. Before eating, I scanned all my cook books and the general consesus was that brown-bread, lemon and maybe horseradish were the things to eat it with. But Anthony of Ummera warned me not to over-do it with extra flavours so I took it easy.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, January 2, 2006
G'Day Commissioner Gordon, it's BitMin heah
For one very scary moment, I thought we had accidentally rented out a special Australian Edition of “Batman Begins” redubbed with Sir Les Patterson as Batman, Dame Edna Everage as Rachel Dawes and Michael Caine as Alfred (oh, wait a sec).
Luckily we found Ireland somewhere around Latvia. This had Twink as Rachel Dawes………..
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, January 2, 2006
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave
Surprise hit movie of the Christmas period with our gang was Madagascar. They have to give those penguins their own movie. Oh and Happy New Year too. We’ve gotten to the stage where we don’t really notice a new year rolling in. We were all in bed before 12, shivering under our covers because we ran out of home heating oil. Coal, we love you.
Normal blogging will resume shortly.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, January 1, 2006
Tis the season for Milk Tray and cadbury's chocolate fingers
A big Merry Christmas to all my readers, most of whom are currently co-located with me in the sitting room in Kilkenny. We're having a grand old time in Kilk. All of us are down now except for Emer's gang who will arrive tomorrow morning. We've just assembled the various christmas presents and all of the kids are happily asleep having dreams of Mario Kart DS, Barbie Scooters, Leapad Walkers and Power Rangers.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, December 24, 2005
First posting from Performancing for Firefox
I installed the Performancing extension for Firefox yesterday. It is a blogging add-on and I'm writing this post in it. Looks pretty good except I don't see any handling of Wordpress categories. If this feature does not exist or is not coming soon, I won't continue to use it. From a basic UI perspective it seems fine tho. And it'll handle multiple blogs. More as I investigate. Aha, found the categories tab, excellent.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, December 22, 2005
Saves me from infringing Scott Adam's copyright...
Can we get Vijay over to Cork? We have a bunch of things we need to talk to him about in Argolon Solutions.
Brad Feld’s Blog
[tags]VC, Dilbert, humour, Brad Feld, Argolon Solutions, Cork, Ireland[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, December 16, 2005
The Your Sinclair Rock n Roll Years 1985 now available
Unless the name Matthew Smith means something to you and you get a wee tingle when the words “Manic Miner” are uttered, then you are probably not interested in the rest of this post.
But, YSNRY 1985 is finally with us just in time for christmas. This is the latest in a very very special (to Speccy fanatics like myself) series of animated “movies” about the hey-day years of ‘Your Sinclair/Your Spectrum’ magazine, an esteemed journal which published two games by yours truly back in 1985/1986!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, December 15, 2005