Last update from home in Blackrock! Next update from home will be in Blarney! Woo! Eh, slightly hungover from last night.. 🙂
Author Archives: Donncha
Thank you for the skip!
You know it’s election time again. Politicians are being nice and taking notice of their constituants. Not that I mind, much. Things get done. It’s a pity I’m moving to a completely different area as this gesture is wasted on me!
Several weeks ago a letter arrived at home saying the road outside would be resurfaced. Although the letter was written by a local councillor, it was at pains to point out that it was a cross-party effort that resulted in the action taken! Two days ago preperations began on the road. Woo!
A few mornings ago another letter arrived. This time from our local Labour Councillor, Denis O’Flynn. In it he stated to, “have arranged from my allocation of ward funds to have two rubbish skips delivered to your area on Friday next the 26th of March. I have asked for these skips to allow you the residents to dispose of the larger items of rubbish.”
Well, thanks very much! I took home a load of rubbish from the new house and dumped it this morning. Pity I had to go out to Blarney at 2am this morning after the pub. Only got 4 hours sleep last night. Yawn!
Denis – I would have voted for you anyway, simply because Labour are flavour of the month for me and I’m disillusioned with FF and FG. Must find out who my representatives are in Blarney.
And for those who’re interested, here’s a list of members of Cork City Council. Just in case you want to have your own skip delivered. Remember, you have until June 11th when the local elections occur!
Gift Gael!
Hehe. This show (Realaudio stream) is hilarious, but probably only for Irish people. Listen to Daniel O Donnell and Gerry Adams sing The Darkness as Gaeilge and more in this pop quiz skit! 🙂
The guy is dumb, really, really dumb
According to the BBC, Bush’s Iraq WMDs joke backfires. This would be slightly funny if it wasn’t in such bad taste. Thanks Colm for the link.
Worms!
Heard on Today FM a few minutes ago, and here for reference purposes.. Ray was asked about composting waste food so he got an expert on the line. My father has a composter which has worked wonders to cut down the amount of waste we throw out. Mel and others have told me about wormeries a few times. These are basically the same, but they have worms in them, and according to the “expert” they’ll consume waste material 10 times faster! With the introduction of weight based billing for rubbish collection at the end of the year I can only imagine that sales of these devices is going to rocket over the next few months!
GIMP 2 in Video
Via the Gimp User mailing list, here’s some good tutorial videos showing off GIMP 2.0. I must really install GIMP 2.0 soon and play with it!
We feel your pain!
Myself and John spent the last 2 days working on GoldMine trying to get it to import users (easy), setup extra fields (bit harder) and automatically importing them into a new track (not done yet). Documentation is terrible, help files are a small help, the program is unwieldy. We visited their website to be confronted with the following…
we feel your pain
Beating the Photography Blues, Trouble on the Streets?
You know those days when you really couldn’t be bothered? Go to work, work the day through, go home, have dinner, veg in front of the tv, go to bed, repeat ad naseum. Everyone goes through troughs in life and Mark’s going through one right now. Here’s his plan for beating the blues!
On a completely different note, this is disturbing. Sensiti was in central London taking photos and looking for insipiration. He started taking photos until 4 minutes later he was approached by a policeman and asked what he was doing. It seems that the CCTV people monitoring the city noticed him walking around with a camera and suspected he was taking photos of children.
What would I have said if I was stopped on St. Patrick’s Day? Besides the parade photos , I took at least 2 dozen photos of the crowd before and during the event! Several of those are of kids looking in wonder and delight at the parade or simply bored and hungry, hanging on to their parents necks.
It’s a sorry, scary, state of affairs. for parents and photographers alike.
What to do? I hardly ever take photos of kids but if I do, I try to make sure people see my approach with a camera. Unfortunately, as Mark points out in the first article, pointing your camera at someone is often one of the hardest things to do as a photographer.
so I don’t take many photos of people!
Much later… Here’s another similar story about 2 photographers on the subway in New York! The train was stopped so they could be interrogated by the police!
Gimp Hits 2.0
I took one day off and Microsoft are fined (a not so huge amount in terms of their cash-pile, and there could be further ramifications for the Free Software movement.) the previous day, and GIMP 2.0 is released! I’d link to gimp.org but that site’s down and out. Here’s the usual Slashdot discussion on the matter including links to a Windows Gimp binary release. Apparently it’s much improved on previous versions!
Here’s the list of mirrors in case you want to download the source tarball now. Some mirrors haven’t updated yet, but gd.tuwien.ac.at has!
House things
So I spent the day doing house things – washing machine, beds and wardrobe were delivered. I got a buzz out of setting up the washing machine and connecting the vacuum cleaner. Yes, yes, yes.. cheap thrills, but they’re my washing machine and vacuum! 😛
Had a frozen pizza for dinner, must get a proper oven-lighter thingy, lighting it with a match almost took the hand off me with the roar of flame from it! All going well, I shall probably be living there on Friday night or perhaps Saturday.
House warming parties to be held sometime next month. Ring the doorbell with your elbow and I’ll take the presents from your hands. lol.