It’ll be worth it in the end, but Cork City is a city under construction right now. The drainage works came first, then a re-design of the City Centre streets. Oliver Plunkett St. (where this photo was taken) is showing promise already, as long as they don’t tarmac over the nice brickwork laid into the street surface. That’s almost bound to happen like it did in Paul St.
QDB: Top 100 Quotes
Michael Savu might be AWOL, the rest of the Top 100 Quotes at bash.org are a great laugh! hehe.
Henri Cartier-Besson dies at 95
I had never heard of him but the news is popping up all over the place. Here’s the photo.net post about it.
Andy Williams posted some great photos, “to mark the passing of a truly great photographer, and someone whom i so greatly admire”, and linked to a lot of threads on b&w conversion and an interesting tri-x tutorial.
Quarlo.com has some great photos up, again! Love the saturated look of his photos!
Mark describes him as, “One of the best-known photographers in the world” so just goes to show what I know.
Loos.. an expert in his field
I notice things. I can’t help it, but I do. Quite often I’ll miss the obvious but give me the obscure any day!
On the way to and from work last week I noticed a portaloo in the middle of a field! Everyday I meant to stop and take a few snaps of it, but I didn’t get around to it until Friday evening when it was being removed by this guy and his lorry!
No I have no idea why it was there!
Major Caching Update
I finally got around to profiling this site and came up with some astounding conclusions – it takes almost a second to fetch each post on this blog!
Therefore I’ve started to catch blog posts seperately from the main index page. In simple testing I’ve already noticed a significant speed-up but if you notice anything strange please leave a comment here or email me at the usual address!
Ireland=Atlantis?
According to this report Ireland could be where Atlantis was situated! Now if only it could have been somewhere exotic.. I wonder what was in Cork, like?
The Referers are Gone but I'm still kicking!
The referer db table just got hosed but I’ve rebuilt it. Unfortunately your referer listing is going to be a little short for a few days until it fills again!
Anyway, I have the following running each night. Should have done this before.
#!/bin/shexport d=`date +%u`
for i in `echo show tables |mysql -u username -ppassword b2`
do
echo "check table $i"| mysql -u username -ppassword b2
done
mysqldump --opt -u username -ppassword b2 > backup/b2-$d.sql
the Bosco File
Thank God I’m not the only one keeping tabs on Bosco! Looks like the Bosco File is a pretty able guardian protecting the world from evil!
Even old friends are having doubts about his sanity..
Fortycoats said the “youngfeller is definitely not all there. I know he’s been drinking heavily lately, and there’s talk of drug abuse.”
The Ants Are Coming!
Last week flying ants came out in their millions and disrupted Irish life for a few days while they danced their mating dances! I was outside the office and spotted this lot coming out of their nest. It’s fitting that last weekend was the warmest this year! The average temperature was around 25deg C. Dry, dead heat!
Lots of Demos!
Woo, here’s a long list of demos! I might be busy tonight downloading this lot!