Almost exactly a month since I reported that 5 people were killed on Irish roads, 5 people were killed, and 17 injured in Dublin when a bus toppled over into people waiting at a bus stop on Wellington Quay in Dublin. Now it appears that CIÉ were warned two weeks ago of how dangerous the location was. What does it take for a large bureaucratic organisation to fix things?
When in Cork..
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Found Portraits
Short but interesting article on taking portraits “on the street”. There’s a fine line between this and street photography. Is this photo I took in Chicago a Found Portrait?
Not Street Photography. Not Documentary.
Certainly Not Formal Portraits.
Certainly Not Formal Portraits.
The Crow's Nest, Victoria Cross, Cork.. gone!
From our roving reporter, John, at the scene, comes the news that the Crow’s Nest Bar and Restaurant burnt down this morning! I passed there around 9:30 and the place was fine. 🙁
I couldn’t find any photos online, but here’s a review of the place from the SBPost.
That Friday Feeling..
That Friday Feeling has been around since 1929! Thank Crunchie It’s Friday!
(Blame pron for that!)
Sun Stuff
APOD has an amazing picture and story today about a huge star that exploded 170,000 years ago. The gases produced are seen expanding out at huge velocities and temperatures!
Then there’s a picture of a solar eclipse on photosig. I’m jealous, because for some reason, *every* time there’s such an event over Ireland the sky is cloudy. Every single time. *grrr*
Couple o' stories for the feens!
The People’s Republic of Cork have a couple of new articles online.. I read the feminist one in the Echo this evening and as I was nodding my head I thought it’d be good to bring to the attention of my dear readers here..
- Corkonian’s Guide to Abroad – covers such exotic locations beyond the borders of the Republic such as Ireland, London and America!
- Inside the Mind of a Cork Woman.. is not a pretty sight, but that’s not fair, I’m sure it applies equally to the rest of yer wans around the place!
- Gettin’ Flahed: Adventures in Speed Dating.. this one had me laughing out loud within shouting distance of the start! hehe.
So there you go, the combined intelligence and social engineering skills of the average Corkonian is imbued in the above writing. Read ’em and weep, err laugh, guys!
Stop! Stop! Stoppie!
Yer man on the motor bike is back and this time I had the camera ready!
He went up and down outside the office for about 10 minutes doing stoppies, trying to do burnouts (and failing miserably!), and very weak attempts at wheelies.
Let’s have some bets on when he’s going to have a blow out on that back wheel shall we?
CSS Drop Down Menus, redux
Forget the last one I posted, this drop down menu is rather better, but it does require Javascript and not just CSS. Saving that, it’ll still work in non-Javascript/CSS capable browsers because it uses HTML lists to render the menu structure!
Wrong Path.. another crash!
Looks like I’m not the only driver to have a camera handy to capture a road crash. Maybe I should have posted them to Photosig at the time?