This face should be familiar to almost all Cork people, be they Catholic or otherwise. Bishop Buckley has been a very popular bishop and he is well loved and respected by his congregation.
The Bishop
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Come On!
The annual Corpus Christi Procession passed off without a hitch today. AJ and myself took a load of photos, some of which I will share over the next few days.
This was just down the road from the North Cathedral.
She said yes!
I asked her to marry me, she said yes! Thanks Jacinta, you made me the happiest man in the world! 🙂
Saving files per drag-n-drop
When you close newer versions of the GIMP, a small dialog appears showing thumbnails of unsaved images. In the development version you can drag and drop those thumbnails to a “XDS” compatible file manager to save them!
Unfortunately, neither Nautilus or Konqueror support that feature yet, but Rox-Filer does!
Is Bush a Sith Lord?
Is Bush a Sith Lord? – go on, lap it up!
The current episode of Star Wars is dynamite for the duplicitous Bush administration. Palpatine, a Sith Lord masquerading as a galactic Republican, becomes Chancellor of the Galactic Republic through deception. Palpatine uses wars that he instigates to elevate security over the power of the Senate and to become dictator.
Free, Fly free!
On Tuesday next, I finish work at TradeSignals and move on elsewhere.
It’s been fun, it’s been tough, it’s been a long time.
While still at college I rushed late into a talk being given by local business men. Me – unshaven, weaing jeans and old tshirt, got the business card of my old boss after talking to him about my Perl college project. I never heard what the talk was about, probably the usual guff about students being great and all that sort of stuff!
7 years later here I am, older and a little bit wiser and about to start another episode in the life of me!
Announcement to come in the next 2 weeks! Thanks for reading.
Google AdSense site hijacked in the Google serps… oh the irony
You’ve probably seen it on slashdot already but here’s the scoop with screenshots. Read down through the comments. The man responsible “did it by accident” which may be so, but I find that hard to believe!
Some guy on webmasterworld.com was trumpeting some “new way” of getting PR10 for your site.. after a thread that went on for half a dozen pages it was a simple redirect hack!
phpfin – Your Personal Finance Manager
phpfin could be good. On the todo list to try out!
Update. phpfin.com is gone. Bah.
Cork City Historical Photographs
Cork Camera Club (pre-1940) contains a wealth of photographs and information about the real capital of Ireland.
Cork City Council has another site with the same content, but with thumbnails. Here’s the origin of the name, Sraid an Chapaill Bhuí, and according to the first link above, an extraordinary photo since it must have been taken only 28 years after the production of the first paper negative!
It’s amazing to see the old St. Fin barres Cathedral and Marina Quay where Ford and Son had their large factory.
If you want to get in touch with other photography types, check out Cork Camera Group or Carrigaline Photographic Society (why do you have so many images when text would do?)
What is a photojournalist?
What is a photojournalist? – Here’s a great article by Mark Hancock. Well worth reading!
A journalist tells stories. A photographer takes pictures of nouns (people, places and things). A photojournalist takes the best of both and locks it into the most powerful medium available–a single frozen image.