Archive for May, 2006
The Cat Laughs is almost upon us
by Steve on May.31, 2006, under Ireland, Real Life™
The 2006 Smithwick’s Cat Laughs festival kicks off in a mere 38 hours, and I have just secured a last minute ticket to see Phil Kay on Sunday in Kyteler’s. Woohoo! The weather’s shaping up to be pretty good this weekend too — Kilkenny publicans are going to make a fortune.
Might see if I can grab tickets to some of the other shows over the weekend too, last year was a blast. That said, last year I was clever enough to book the tickets in advance, rather than have this ticketless muppet situation I’m in now…
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Wanna buy some books?
by Steve on May.30, 2006, under Everything else, Nerdism
I’m offloading some of my old college stuff on adverts.ie. Prices are negotiable.
Have a look at the list here.
I accept all major credit cards (…via paypal!).
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New theme
by Steve on May.27, 2006, under Nerdism
Okay, I settled on a new theme, and that is the nice fGala by Fredrik Fahlstad that you see before you. Might change that image on top, but besides that I think I’ll keep everything as it is.
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We fear change.
by Steve on May.27, 2006, under Everything else, Nerdism
I’m fooling about with some new themes to tart this place up a bit. It’ll probably end up looking worse than it did to start with, so please bear with me.
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How to save MP3s from Pandora
by Steve on May.26, 2006, under Internet, Music
Excellent.
You will need:
* A Java runtime environment
* A Pandora account
* Mozilla Firefox
Full instructions here.
(via digg)
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Spam spam spam
by Steve on May.21, 2006, under Nerdism, Scum
Jaysus, the spammers really are turning it up a notch this week:
BBStats report: Bad Behavior has blocked 4760 access attempts in the last 14 days.
Not one of them got through! Have. It.
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Pure, unadulterated EVIL.
by Steve on May.16, 2006, under Everything else, Photos
Wasps. Sting-arsed bastards the lot of them. I hate them. Particularly this one that keeps hanging around my room.
Click the thumbnails for hi-res versions.
That fucker wouldn’t look half as impressive/nasty without his fat arse section there.
Sheer brilliance
by Steve on May.16, 2006, under Humour, Ireland
This one amuses the toilet-humour fan in me:
My sister worked in a music shop in kilkenny a few years back. A lady came in looking for a Stereophonics tune- ” Ahh, I think the name of it is Handbags and Jamrags”.
It took everything she had not to laugh in the woman’s face.
Overheard on Tuesday, 21st March 2006 – Kilkenny by martina
From overheardindublin.com sister site, overheardinireland.ie.
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