Nice Car Mate
That Vauxhall Astra ad is an absolute stonker. I love it. Catches the concept of a petrol-head perfectly.
Oisín, my 3 year old, is already well on the road to being a car nut. But somethimes it’s just spooky. We were stuck in a traffic jam in Killeagh on Sunday and were stopped beside a new Bangle-era BMW 5-Series. Oisín looks out his window and says “that’s the same as grandad’s car”.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 4, 2005
Extinct Woodpecker Found
A large woodpecker thought to be extinct for sixty years has been found living in the “Big Woods” section of eastern Arkansas.
I crack me up.
Ok, here’s the right link: Ivory Billed Woodpecker
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, April 29, 2005
6 Years of Electronic Engineering
I bought my first soldering iron and multimeter by mail-order from Maplin when I was about 16 (1984) to build some add-ons for my ZX Spectrum. None of my creations ever worked :-(
I still have the soldering iron. I finally retired the analogue multimeter only last week after 21 years of sterling service and replaced it with a no-name digital one that I picked up in B&Q for €25.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 28, 2005
Blogs for Dummies
Actually it’s a great tutorial on how to use Bloglines to track RSS feeds of peoples blogs. I have converted fully over to Bloglines for managing my feeds but they still have a lot of improving to do on the actual blog feature. Blogger is still far better for running your own Blog.
Using Bloglines
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 28, 2005
Software Development Approaches
Who needs SOA or AOP when you have the far more interesting POSD:
Politics-Oriented Software Development
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
O'Neill History
Neat summary of the history of the O’Neill’s. No famous Conor’s sadly.
http://www.araltas.com/features/oneill/
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
More Technorati messing
No idea what I’m doing
Technorati Profile
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
If you're not, you should
Of the zillions of web-sites I access in an average week, only one is unusable with Firefox - the online banking one from the donkey’s over at Ulster Bank. Has someone not told them that even MS now recommend the use of the Sun JVM?
Get Firefox and at the very least, learn to browse with tabs.
You’ll love it.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Channel 4 gets it right this time
“The Simpsons” is voted the best kids programme of all time.
And someone just said that it’s the best TV show of all time. Ye know, they might be right.
Nice to see “The Muppet Show” and “Danger Mouse” do so well.
But “Bagpuss”? Never liked that show. Nothing ever bloody happened.
And a huge relief that they had “The Tomorrow People”. For years I thought I had dreamt that show!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 24, 2005
Whew!
My BMI is a disaster. I started on the road to reduction last thursday, but if I fail then it’s good to know this:
Pleasantly Plump May be OK.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 24, 2005