Live music is great, and The Coal Quay Bar is a relatively new bar here in Cork that has bands in on a regular basis. Last Sunday Limerick band the willful played there and were great! So, while Veron and her friends sang along to the band some guy in a baseball cap played air guitar to his own private audience of the whole pub as he persisted in jumping around in front of the band! Ah yes, fear the designated driver who has a blog! 🙂
Despite the fact that they come from Kilkenny, another band, UP 4 it are well worth going to see. They play a lot of rock and metal and have a brilliant medley of rock and metal intros that’ll get everyone going! I just wish they hadn’t come over to our table with that microphone.. *cough* *cough*
Another band I saw a long time ago and in another life is Big Generator who have been around a while and again are worth seeing.
A post like this would never be complete without mentioning the excellent, and popular, and talented (cheque’s in the post Owen?) The King of Hearts Band. Owen, Adrian and the other guys will be playing next Sunday night in the Coal Quay Bar and I’ll be in there, so make yer way in if you’re around!
(Thanks Owen for the links!)
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Buying a house in Ireland
Well, it would appear that Jeremy is buying a house as is John (hope the signing went well!), but they’re in the USA. What about Ireland?
I’m buying too, and hoping to have everything sorted within a month. I did mean to blog what was happening but as it’s a business fraught with uncertainties I didn’t want to say much until things had progressed along a bit.
I expect the engineer will inspect the property sometime this week so once that’s out of the way I’ll post some links to oasis, info on costs, and how maddening the whole process can get!
‘Course, I’m going to be completely broke for the forseeable future so I’ll have plenty of time to compose this article. 🙂
"Just Hack!"
There’s probably something to be said for this quote but I would hasten to add that once you start hacking I don’t think everything that’s been learnt before goes out the window!
First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. — George Carrette
Nice Whois
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
Learn Prolog Now! Argh!
Via Keith comes this online course on learning Prolog.
Why do I mention this? Well, I remember Prolog. I remember defining white, red, and blue houses, and who ate fish in one, and meat in another. I remember turning my head inside out trying to figure out what the hell was happening! Never again I tell you! *shudder*
Down by the river..
By the River Lee in Mahon last night.
This image is made up of 4 photographs stitched together in the GIMP. I was playing around with Hugen, and Panorama tools but couldn’t get it to work at all well on any of the photos I tried. Back to the GIMP and I managed rather well IMO! It’s not perfect but at this low res it’s not that bad!
Click on the image for a larger version! And original .xcf file is available for any that ask!
Photography stuff
Via PhotographyBLOG comes 2 interesting sites:
- ePHOTOzine has 4 tutorials in their latest issue, on ND filters, fireworks, silhouettes and darkrooms. I have a Neutral Density filter in my camera bag and it rarely gets used.
- Digital Panoramics from about.com is pretty self explanatory and I’ll be reading it as I’ve failed spectacularly in the past to do panoramas!
- And it’s Mac Vs PC in a shoot out to find the best computer for digital photo manipulation!
You might want to take a look at photographyBLOG too, as he’s listed lots of newly announced cameras, gadgets and equipment including a 0.85 inch HDD with expected capacities of between 2GB and 4GB! There’s a picture and the drive fits on the end of a finger!
A planet that heats a sun!
According to this story, the star Sagittarius is orbitted very closely by a planet. As the planet orbits it’s followed by a hotspot on the star’s surface!
I mention this because my star sign is Sagittarius 🙂
Liquid layouts – the easy way
Good presentation on using CSS for liquid layout. Going through each step of the process and explaining each well. Including hacks to get around bugs in various versions of IE!
(via Dangerousmeta)