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Tag Archives: irishblogs
My First Earthquake!
Wow, the house just shook! Toni found some info on it, and I got it from Andy. Magnitude 4.4 apparently, but 42 miles away.
Podz mentioned it too. What did you do when you felt it? Did you run to the door, duck, take cover? No, we blogged it!
2020 Edit: Mark has since moved his blog and his post can be found here.
Ray and Jenny Expecting
Radio DJ, Ray D'Arcy and Jenny Kelly are expecting a baby in a few months time it was revealed yesterday in the Tribune. For those of us who don't buy that fine newspaper, Ian Dempsey announced the news this morning. Ray and co. were inundated with texts this morning congratulating the couple on their good news!
Good luck guys, hope the pregnancy goes well!
The referrers list on In Photos shows the interest people had trying to find photos of the couple. Luckily my US Book photos have always featured highly in Google searches for them! 🙂
Who controls Bush?
Who really controls the man the White House? Here’s a video interview with the controller himself. Excellent, and enlightening! (via)
UCC students blogging
Damien Mulley has the scoop about the latest development at University College Cork. All students will be given blogs!
While that’s great news for blogging in Ireland, I’m disappointed that they didn’t choose WordPress Mu. I had a quick look around a few blogs and noticed a few things:
- They do have permanent links, but links to articles are only in the sidebar “Recent Posts” block. The title of each post is not linked, and neither is the timestamp.
- Permanent links aren’t very descriptive being of the form “/blogs/Username/item_x.htm” where x is a number.
- It looks like trackbacks and pings aren’t supported so it will be just a little harder for blog owners to participate in blog conversations with others.
- What will happen when a student finishes college? Will they be able to export their work? On another level, who owns the work? Student or College?
I have to disagree with Bernie’s comment about what value for money colleges get from hosting blogs. Bebo and MySpace are only two of the many companies offering their own proprietary website platforms. A college weblog has an unbreakable link to that institution. Colleges are places for learning which is quite different from the profit motive of any and every commercial company out there. The more exposure students get to blogging the better they will be at dealing with this phenomenon in the future. Not to mention the older students who are not in the demographic targeted by commercial interests.
The Crazy Stories
Cute monkey
A very cute monkey from Cute Overload!
WordPress Love on the beach
OK, so maybe I had something to do with this picture, but I had to counter the bebo message with one of my own!
Rage on the road
“Who’s calling me now, must be one of the lads about tonight. No Gardai around, answer phone. Damn bend, must slow down… There they are in that garage! I better stop the car in the middle of the road and shout at them! What the f*ck! The guy behind me blowing his horn at me? F*cker, who does he think he is?”
I’m sure that’s what was going through the mind of the driver in front me who braked suddenly and stopped in the middle of the road to shout abuse at his friends in another car. Lovely.
Over There in Iraq
Does anyone watch Over There? It’s finished up in the US and Canada, but Sky are currently showing it and I’m hooked.
Unfortunately only 13 episodes were made before “declining ratings” prompted FX to cancel the project.
Check the above link for an episode guide and more.