Found on boards.ie are these pics of a new development near Pairc Ui Caoimh. Very nice. The NMRC is moving near my place. Great idea.
My neighbourhood getting all tarted up.
January 5th, 2006Dublining
January 5th, 2006I’m off to Dublin and Maynooth in the morning. Am around Dublin on Fri, Sat and Sun. If anyone is around give me a shout if you want to go for a drink or two. I’m going to see Mogwai play on Saturday evening, anyone else going to them?
I won’t be checking mail til at least Fri evening, I should think, so if you need to contact me have your people talk to Sinéad’s people who will ask Sinéad to supply my number.
Anyone know of a place in Dublin that does cocktails after lunch? Yes, I’m starting early.
Irish Blog Awards – Nominate your fav blogs now
January 4th, 2006I’ve opened the Irish Blog Awards Nomination Process.
The categories are:
- Best Blogger
- Best Blog Post
- Most Humorous Post
- Best Photo Blog
- Best Fictional Piece in a Blog
- Best Arts and Culture Blog
- Best Political Blog
- Best Group Blog
- Best Comment/Commenter
- Best Personal Blog
- Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog
- Best Contribution to the Irish Bloggersphere (Tech wise)
Go to the post on the Awards site to get more details. Now that nominations are open I *have* to get everything else in place PDQ. Have fun!
new Blog Awards Logo
January 4th, 2006
Shower notepad
January 4th, 2006
Blog Awards – Not the Irish ones, the bloggies
January 3rd, 2006Nominate your fav Irish and/or British weblogs. BTW, I now have a logo ready for the Irish Blog Awards but I must first move server.
Asked what my New Year’s Resolutions were
January 3rd, 2006I said:
why would I need to make resolutions? That would mean I wasn’t doing things right in 2005. I did everything right. Wouldn’t change a thing in 2005.
Oh the arrogance/delusions…
ex City of Culture still clueless
January 2nd, 2006Seems there’s a multi-lingual sign you see when leaving Cork airport telling you what side of the road to drive on. The French sentence tells you to drive in Ireland on the right hand side. Can anyone get a picture of this sign?
William Gibson’s MA-1 Jacket
January 2nd, 2006William Gibson gives some back story on how obsessive the Japanese are while talking about a jacket he invented in his book Pattern Recognition. I love how the Buzz Rickson’s company spent a million dollars on a machine that just makes the zips for the jackets and how the company seems more interested in getting their garments just so, more than marketing them to a larger audience. They seem more like artists than manufacturers.
Hidden Agendas or not…
December 31st, 2005From the Director and Producer of Homosexual Agenda comes a new bigger and more explosive sequel – Gay Agenda.
There are now 42 LGBT bloggers on Homosexual Agenda which caters for Irish people or those living in Ireland but for those non-irish or not resident here we have launched Gay Agenda. Unlike Queer Filter which is pretty massive, I think for GA we’ll have to keep the numbers down and choose blogs that are less personal diary and more cultural, political or somethingelse-ical natured. I was thinking that if we kept the number to something like 500 or so blogs and ran an automated script that when the technorati ranking of a blog reached a certain level then the blog would be removed from the aggregator.
The idea being that GA would help promote some of the good but lesser known blogs and try to help with making them more popular and as they reach a certain threshold they’d get kicked out of the nest to fend for themselves. There are another few ideas for GA using structured blogging and the like which I have to convince Rob to create when he has some free time. 🙂