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Knife Sharpening Fetish

I have a small obsession with getting my knives very sharp. I think it goes back to my uncle Frank who is a carpenter and who showed me how he sharpened his chisels on a wet-stone when I was a very small kid. From that point on, I was always trying to sharpen knives. I think my first attempt was using Frank’s wet-stone on a butter knife. The outcome on that one was very predictable.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, September 11, 2005

Otto's Creative Catering - One of our top 5 meals of all time

I’m not going to be able to put into proper words how fantastic the meal in OCC in Dunworley was last night. We just can’t stop talking about it. Perfection from start to finish. But first some history: When we moved to Bandon two years ago, I asked around about good restaurants in the area. The general consensus was that none of the ones in Bandon were great but that Otto’s in Dunworley was fantastic.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, September 11, 2005

Categories vs Tags

I’ve been using Wordpress Categories as sort of generic Technorati tags. When I remember, I add some post-specific actual tags. I haven’t really been that clear on the difference to be honest. Lorelle has a big posting on it. And I’m still confused! Top-tip: Don’t try reading anything technical after spending your lunchtime installing Oracle and testing ETL tools. Maybe I shouldn’t try setting up an automated backup of a subversion repository this afternoon after all.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, September 9, 2005

Yeah, I know it's totally anal but...

I’ve always found the name of “Cafe Mao” offensive. I ate there once - mediocre at best. They are probably as good at cooking food as Mao was at growing it. In my little fantasy world, I’d love to set up a little stall outside of the Cafe and sell Pol Pot Noodles. Wonder how long before someone would complain? As ever, someone else expresses this thought so much better than I can.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, September 9, 2005

Treffen 2005 in Bandon

The Honda Goldwing Owners Club had their annual Treffen in Bandon last weekend. It was a thrill to see so many fabulous bikes from all over Europe around the town. I could make a crack about the fact that the owners all seemed to be overweight middle-aged men, but as I now fall firmly in that category, I shall desist. They did a parade on Saturday afternoon and we caught them on the return leg as they headed back to the camp in the GAA pitch.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 31, 2005

My BlogDay Links

In the spirit of BlogDay, a quick selection from my favourite Blogs: Dave Barry - God of comic writing and links to stupid web-sites Venture Chronicles by Jeff Nolan - Nice wide range of mainly business related postings Bibliocook - Food topics from Irish person in New Zealand Ongoing - Tim Bray’s Blog. Mr XML always has something interesting to say. Red Mum - Everything a personal blog should be.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Still playing with Wordpress themes

Haven’t found anything I’m entirely happy with yet. Any opinions on this one?

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Conor's Blog on the move

Finally, 5 years after registering conoroneill.com and just having it re-direct to geocities, eircom and blogspot (in that order), I am now properly hosted with PowWeb. The value for money they were offering made it an easy decision. The import of the Blogspot Blog went disasterously badly yesterday as I did it on the latest 1.5.2 version of Wordpress which the importer did not like. Tonight I reverted to 1.5.1.2, did the import and then did the upgrade and it all worked swimmingly.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, August 18, 2005

Bear with me as I move over to Wordpress from Blogspot

Not as easy as doing it on a linux box at home! Usual Blog still available at http://conoro.blogspot.com/