I was in town this morning, and spotted sailors walking around in dress uniform. They were from the Danmark, which is currently docked in Cork Harbour. Here are some shots of Cork, and this beautiful tall ship!
Cork & Danmark
Monthly Archives: August 2005
I'm Back!
2 days in Dingle, Co. Kerry and I’m very chilled out. Very very tired, but also relaxed. Lots of photos to come but I’m not answering any MU mail until Monday, I need time to recharge my batteries fully!
What's this WordPress.com thing anyway?
Lots of people are asking about WordPress.com, fortunately for them there has been lots said about it already, both on the wp-hackers list, and on the WPMU blog. Usually without much feedback which I have found strange, but there you go!
The question comes up on IRC frequently, and here’s what I said a short while ago:
<donncha> it’s just WordPress.. if you already run a WordPress blog then you know a lot about what WordPress.com will be 🙂
It’s that, but also more. WordPress.com is going to be a great site and a shining example of what can be built on GPL software!
How to convert from WMA to MP3
Converting Windows Media Audio files into MP3 format is rather easy with mplayer and lame. My car stereo plays MP3s, so WMA is of no use to me!
This code is based on this script but I have to wonder why they overwrote the wma file?
Piping the output of mplayer into lame is left as an easy lesson for the reader!
for i in *.wma ; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -waveheader "$i" && lame -m j -h --vbr-new -b 160 audiodump.wav -o "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3"; done; rm -f audiodump.wav
Cobh Peoples Regatta, 2005: part 2
Following on from the fireworks in Cobh and my look around the Jeanie Johnston, here’s some photos of the late-night concert that took place in Cobh town center.
The crowd went a little mad dancing and singing along to this crazy looking band! Anyone know who they are? More photos after the jump..
Aboard the Jeanie Johnston
The Jeanie Johnston is a replica of the ships that made the difficult journey to the United States during the Irish Famine in the 19th Century. It was docked in Cobh at the weekend and Ronan (pictured below in the galley) very kindly gave myself and Justin a tour of the ship! Thank you Donogh for ringing ahead, and I owe you a pint or two next time! Enjoy the photos!
31 Days to Better Blogging
I paraphrased, but here’s a growing collection of blogging tips which will be added to over the next 2 weeks!
Welcome to WordPress.com
Looks like Matt has started giving out WordPress.com invites. Hmm.
Only one per person, who would you give your invite to?
Avoiding the dreaded Refresh
WTF were they thinking when they coded this bit of trash and made it public? Embedding SQL into a web page?
I don’t know if I’ve met anyone as clueless as this poor guy’s (almost) previous employer!
Cobh Peoples Regatta, 2005
It’s been a busy weekend. I went down to Cobh tonight to see the firewords and capture the mood of the people in photos.. Everyone was in great form and the fireworks were a great end to the Regatta.
This is part 1 of a 2 part series of shots. Part 2 comes tomorrow and will have pictures from inside the Jeanie Johnston (Thanks Donogh and Ronan!) and shots of the band that played the night away…
Ryan was there too, and he has some stunning shots of the fireworks and the fairground!
Update! This blog was mentioned on Red FM a few minutes ago! I emailed them but didn’t honestly expect to hear anything back! Great!
Click this image for more photos!