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Nominations now open

Ryan — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:02:50 +0000

Seems like all I’m going to be posting about lately is the blog awards that will take place this March 3rd in Dublin. Well, nominations are now open if you want to head along, fill in the form and nominate your favorite blog (i.e. this one). You can get in there and put your favorite blog on the spot until Friday 26th January so no excuses.

Irish Blog Awards 2007

Ryan — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:58:11 +0000

Damien has announced the 2007 Irish Blog Awards and would like people to leave a quick note if they are attending. It’s penciled in for the 3rd of March in the Alexander Hotel, Dublin city. Very much looking forward to it, although this time as a purely social event rather than a nominee. Last year practically every blogger I’ve read were strangers to me and after meeting them I can’t wait to get back and catch up.

Not to say I wouldn’t be utterly delighted to be nominated in the shortlist again this year, but it’s not a huge priority. This year I’ll be taking on the duty of ‘official photographer’. Hey, does that mean I get a badge or something?!?

Mentioned in The Irish Times

Ryan — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:05:05 +0000

Thanks to Haydn Shaughnessy for his kind words in his article on Irish bloggers on page 14 of todays Irish Times. I’m not going to repeat the whole article or even quote my favorite bit. I will however use the quote for some shameles self promotion in the very near future.

Ta me completely as mo parking spot!

Ryan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:10:08 +0000

Just a little tit-bit of what I thought was humourous news… While sitting in my legally parked commercial vehicle on the South Mall in Cork last Saturday morning, I spotted a celebrity of sorts parking in a disabled spot across the road from me, right outside the Bank of Ireland branch.

I rolled down the window and as traffic was light I didn’t have to shout the following very loudly…

“Wey hey, Ta tu parked in disabled spot Hectorrrrrrrrrr”.

Ok so I didn’t, but I wanted to. My guess is he was on the way to his book signing in Eason and didn’t want to look for a legal parking spot. I wonder if the very talented Mario on TodayFM could do anything with that?

Get the point, not the points!

Ryan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:00:01 +0000

Back in July 2003 (in the hells angel days), I performed some rather questionable feats of bravery/stupidity on my motorbike. One such feat involved riding around a public park at 11pm one weeknight but that’s not what we’re interested in for the purposes of this post. What we’re on about is the drag race I had with my imaginary friend on the road from Killarney to Macroom. Pulled for speeding; 2 points. Nards.

It came to pass that the points only appeared on my otherwise pristine driving record in October. The 6th of October 2003 to be precise. So we all know what this means. As of right now, this very moment in time I’m 100% points free. Back to 0. Full no points discount on insurance. I’m such a good driver, having managed to evade getting anymore of the dreaded markings over the last tempting 3 years of road rage. So tonight a small celebration to mark the event. Now, I wonder when I’ll get the congratulatory letter from the department of transport?

Nerdy Joy

Ryan — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:45:08 +0000

Just sitting in work now, having had our internet access enabled and am currently downloading from heanet at 2210kb/sec. Incidentally, boards.ie is pinging 7ms and heanet is coming in around 6ms. Irishisptest tells me I’ve got a 30mbit fibre line all to myself.

Hmm, I wonder how long it’d take to backup the internet?