I’ll try to make it into the the Open Coffee meetup tomorrow in Luigi Malone’s. I confess to knowing little about the business side of startups but as I’ve only ever worked for startups I guess some of it has probably rubbed off on me!
Tag Archives: Ireland
Must be the rain in Cork
Rain spattered onto the windscreen in drops and a light drizzle sprinkled the car as we drove through town on our way home. It was warm today and I was looking forward to getting home, putting the baby to bed and relaxing for the evening. The windows were half down to let the air circulate in the car and traffic was going nowhere fast.
As we waited I heard the slowly increasing beat and volume of loud music from behind. A car drew alongside us and the cheering and laughing faces of the guys in it were clearly visible and their music blared into the evening. Their exuberance was catching and we were soon smiling and laughing with them! I think God must have heard their music, because suddenly the heavens opened and the car almost shook with a torrential shower of rain. We all looked at each other and laughed again. Why? Click play and you’ll find out!
Around Ireland in 80 links on July 13th 2007
Unlucky 13? Oooer!
- What would you like to know about me? Apparently a company in Dublin is selling private information.
- Paul’s friend was dumped over Facebook when his ex-girlfriend changed her status to “single” and “up for it”. Paul, that was mean to laugh! 🙂
- I would love to see the referers to this post when it makes it’s way into Google. I’m sure Grandad will oblige in a future post.
- Online photo sharing on pix.ie via Czajkowski. Anyone else tried them?
- Kae says php.ie could be coming soon!
- Firefox 3 talk by Marcio Galli in Cork on August 8th. What’s in store in version 3?
- I got my first Facebook invitation. Should I sign up?
Fred the Band played in the Opera House in Cork recently, after a tour of the US where the following video was shot (after the jump). Their first album was great, the second album was so-so being a bit more of the same thing. You can hear a portion of their new single on their website above. They are absolutely brilliant live however. I took photos of them last year in the Spiegeltent. I never did post photos of the crowd surfing …
Way back in March I took photos at the shooting of a music video for Stanley Super 800. Finally, you can see the resulting video for yourself. No, I’m not in the video, I was in the background with my camera! They did a great job of it, and if you’ve been to Cork, watch out for Scotts on Caroline Street, Patrick’s Hill and the alley across from the College of Art on Emmet Place. Great stuff!
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Around Ireland in 80 links on July 12th 2007
- Mark saw the new Transformers movie and was less than impressed. Say it aint so Mark!
- Alkos continues to impress with today’s image. Wow.
- The Irish invented the potato smoothie?
- It’s not pretty but it is wet and muddy, and God knows why anyone would tramp about in a muddy field, but don’t let me put you off going to Oxegen, Anthony does a good job of it! 🙂
- Justin notes that the common pint could cause trouble for an inebriated person texting a friend .. “r u going 4 a riot”? Then again, a “shot” of beer would be a lot less harmful.
- Oh, and you’ll be glad to hear I found a spam blog on wordpress.com thanks to this post 🙂
Fun on the radio in Cork
Ah, this is an oldie but a goodie. Cork radio station 96FM ran a competition to win a trip to Bali for one lucky listener. Unfortunately it didn’t go as planned when one persistent caller got onto the show..
Around Ireland in 80 links on July 11th 2007
I still don’t know what to call these posts, but thanks to Niall, Michele and Robert for the suggestions.
- The handyman came to fix a broken door but got a lot more than he was expecting when he called to Flirty’s apartment.
- The Ireland tag on WordPress.com is a great source of Irish news. Some people question if Bono or Colin Farrell are Irish at all? Have they not seen the episode of Scrubs below? Meanwhile, does the British Army admit defeat against the IRA?
- Donal has some good photos of Earthrace while it was (is?) docked in Cork. I don’t think I’ll have a chance to pop in for a look.
- The 7 wonders of the Irish World by the Swearing Lady.
- Check out Damien’s Fluffy links and Niall’s Crunchy links for more speed linking goodness.
- If you made it this far and you’re asking, “how do I get into these link posts?” If you’re Irish (come into the parlour… ) or you live in Ireland and you blog, leave a comment or blog something of mine and trackback it and chances are I’ll add you to my feedreader. Then write interesting and/or quirky stuff! 🙂
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the bogosphere snapshot on July 6th 2007
- Gomaith have their own definition of fettish. In a pub of course.
- Phil has some great photos from a few gigs held during the week.
- Eoin wants some attention given to Gaelscoil Cluain Meala.
… at present they are located in a victorian building previously used by South Tipperary County Council Engineering deptartment and deemed by them to be unsuitable for employees to work in so they rent it to the Gaelscoil …
It’s a familiar story to anyone involved in primary school education unfortunately.
- Turly says Guinness workers are
leading opposition within the trade union movement to mandatory alcohol testing in the workplace.
Hic! - Donal wants you to go to the Unitarian Church on Sunday night for Máirtin de CĂłgáin’s one-man show. The first night was sold out the first night so get there early!
- Both The Swearing Lady and Grandad comment on our prime minister’s suggestion that the naysayers should commit suicide. Bloody stupid and grossly insensitive thing to say.
- I knew I had forgotten a few blogs. Treasa has two photos in the Aer Lingus inflight magazine. I’m flying to London in a few weeks time, possibly with them so I’ll look out for the pics!
- Richard rips apart the Independent’s website and discovers some silly JS redirects.
- Robert can be glimpsed in the beach scene of Saving Private Ryan.
I was one of 6 out of 300 that got picked for special placements around set because apparently I look like an intelligent American. If you look closely about 30 mins in after the battle you can see me albeit briefly.
There you go, more to come from Irish blogs next week.
News from the beaches of Cork
Following the news that €105m worth of cocaine was recovered from the waters off West Cork over the last 2 days it appears that some people have been down to the beaches helping Gardai with their investigation..
Thanks Derek for the image, anyone know where it came from originally?
You're all just jealous of Cork
Kathy Foley is right on the ball with her article, You’re all just jealous of Cork from last weekend’s Sunday Times! I was going to post this tomorrow but as Damien beat me to the punch here it is for everyone else to enjoy too.
Life as a Corkonian in Dublin often seemed like one long session as a judge at a terrible talent show. You had to smile through gritted teeth at the impressionists: “So you’re going to do a terrible version of a Cork accent? Great, go on then. It’s only the 12th time today.” You had to laugh at the jokes, or should I say the joke, as it was almost always the same one. Had I heard the one about the Cork mother who says, “My son, the solicitor, is drowning”? Yes, very good. It gets funnier every time.
Round Up the Garda Youtube Videos!
It’s not often that the Gardai are caught on Youtube, or so I thought …
Reclaim the streets – Gardai take a heavy handed approach to clearing the streets.