If you haven’t been watching the International Space Station (ISS) passing over Ireland during the past few nights, then why not!! The ISS is visible for the next few nights passing overhead, and you really should get out and see it. Times of sightings (for Dublin, but pretty much the same nationwide) are available here. [...]
Browsing Posts published in August, 2006
So, the bucket collection at the Bellewstown Races turned out to be a little better than I had expected. Over the two days I managed to raise about EUR 650, which is pretty cool. EUR 450 of that came on the second evening of the meet, when more people turned up than did on the [...]
I’m looking for somewhere reliable and cheap to buy ink for my HP Photosmart 8150 inkjet printer. I want the official HP stuff, no knock-off or refills. Can anyone suggest where I should go looking?
Fired up the laptop this morning, loaded up iTunes ready to play my Saturday morning playlist…and it was empty. Not just the playlist, but, iTunes itself had managed to loose my entire music library. Queue panic and a thumping heart as I quickly went looking into my music folder to see if it was just [...]
Barry and I are both ready to buy our new macs, and were planning on ordering next week. He’s going for a MacBook, and I’m going for a 20″ iMac. News was that Apple were not going to be introducing any new changes to either the MacBook or iMac at the forthcoming Apple Expo in [...]
So, yesterday, day one of the bucket collection for the Irish Township Challenge saw EUR 160 raised. Big thanks to CMA for turning up to help me with the collection. The word around the village was that it was an exceptionally poor turnout for the races, I can certainly vouch for that, after 18 years [...]
If you’re like me, you will have thought of the option of creating stock photography at some stage in your photographic career as a means of making a few bob. It’s not something I’ve seriously thought about as of yet, but, reading this excellent article by Chris is certainly food for thought and makes for [...]
Hey Folks, Wow, it’s been a while (as usual!). I’m arranging a bucket collection at this weeks Bellewstown Races in order to help raise funds for my trip to South Africa with the Niall Mellon Challenge. If you have any tips or ideas, have arranged a bucket collection before, or fancy coming along to help [...]
Madonna…48 today, whoa, now that is scary!!
My uncle Alan is trying to figure out where this castle is somewhere along the Irish West Coast. Take a gander over, and if you know, leave a comment here or on flickr…
