Happy Christmas!
December 23rd, 2009
A little DIY
September 19th, 2009
Our bath was out of comission until I rolled up my sleeves, headed to Woodies/B&Q and googled furiously. In the end, I just needed to re-seal the waste water fitting with some sealant. These websites came in handy:
http://www.practicaldiy.com/plumbing/bath_waste/bath_wastes.php and
http://www.victoriaplumb.com/bathroom_DIY/Fitting-a-bath.html
I did this a couple of months ago and still no leaks so happy days!
Photos from my phone
August 11th, 2009
Here are some snapshots from my travels. First up, Belfast and the reason I have a cold this weekend:
The ceiling in the Tesco near Castle Court Shopping Centre, Belfast
Some photos from the beach in Ballyb – beyond the men’s beach:
and my feet…which appreciated the salt-water after the soccer/tag rugby the previous weeks:
The poster I first [...]
podcasting now
August 8th, 2009
if you like listening to Irish nerd-talk and squeeky old me, tune into the IT Freely podcast over on IAN. This week there was some chatter about twitter and in interesting interview with someone called Emmanuel from 2600 – Episode #7
Photos from Dun Laoghaire
April 26th, 2009
Despite the weather forecast, this afternoon and evening was gorgeous and I took the opportunity to walk on the western pier of Dun Laoghaire Harbour. The first photo is actually of the Commissioners of Irish Lights – the people that look after the lighthouses. There is quite a nice map of the harbour and its [...]
Great Friday 2009
April 6th, 2009
okay, the last post was very serious so how about I remind you of Great Friday! From the website: www.greatfriday.ie
Great Friday Festival 2009. Great Friday, Limericks original and best music festival returns on the 10th of April. Following on from the huge success of last years attendees are once again invited to hop on the [...]
I can’t dance
April 6th, 2009
I’m not good at dancing but I was shocked to hear that public entertainment like nightclubs, football and sporting events are forbidden in several states in Germany, not just on Good Friday but on other religious holidays depending on state law. Don’t think about washing your car in a car-wash in Bavaria on Good Friday [...]
Skycon ‘09 follow-up
March 8th, 2009
Didn’t get to the first talks as I was at a Jason Byrne gig but Skycon was worth the early-morning drive.
The first talk I attended was by Ciarán Maher of daft.ie who explained the evolution of the site and the supporting architecture. Interesting use of Amazon S3 services and now there is a API – [...]
PLASSEY 10K 2009
March 4th, 2009
GET READY FOR PLASSEY 10K !
The Annual Plassey 10K Charity Run in conjunction with the 2nd Yr Sports Science class will take place on Saturday 21st March. Start time for this event is at 11 am. For more information please visit plassey10k.skynet.ie
So go on and get out there, get [...]
RamDebugger and Tcl
March 2nd, 2009
Installed ActiveTcl 8.5.6 on Vista and downloaded RamDebugger but got a error (shown at the end). I used Tcl previously but never with anything as fancy as package mangers so I was delighted to learn that you can simply enter into the command prompt (running as administrator under Vista):
C:\Tcl\bin\teacup install autoscroll
and then the sha1 package [...]