The impossible has happened. When you're outside over the next few days watch the skies. If you looks carefully you may see pigs flying through the air! Why? My Apple MacBook arrived yesterday and I'm playing with it now. After some initial problems with my Linksys WRT54G wireless router I got the laptop online using the neat "network setup assistant". Soon Firefox and Thunderbird were downloaded and now I'm trying to figure out how to migrate my email from Linux to the Mac Thunderbird. Hopefully it's as easy as copying over the data folder. Despite myself, I am impressed. It's […]
WordPress
We [heart] WordPress
Via Podz, the I [heart] WordPress thread continues and is a sticky on the wordpress.com forum. If you like penguins then you'll enjoy this message! Make sure you turn up your sound too! I'm still quite fond of my original "We [heart] WordPress" on the beach! We Love WordPress
When-in-Ireland
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! 🙂
PHP
Five common PHP design patterns
Over at IBM Developer Works there's an interesting article on PHP patterns. If you've never come across patterns before it's a good introduction. Just remember that these methods of solving software problems are most useful when you've got lots of code. Using the MVC pattern to print "Hello World!" is probably a little overkill! For the curious, the patterns covered are: factory, singleton, observer, chain-of-command and strategy. Elsewhere on dikini.net you can find a collection of design patterns. Vlado updated his collection recently and there's now 20 techniques or patterns. He openly admits that, 'not all can be considered "officially" […]
WordPress
Holy Shmoly, it lives!
This site has moved. It's now at ocaoimh.ie where I can play with a more up to date version of WordPress. Upgrading was a breeze: I dumped the old database tables and copied them over here. I installed this site with the usual defaults included near-empty tables. Then I fed my old db tables back in, changed the prefix in wp_config.php to point at those old tables. I changed the siteurl and home in the options table to point at the new url. Finally, I visited the upgrade url which magically brought the db up to date! I decided on […]
When-in-Ireland
Cyclists Beware!
I just caught a few minutes of a report on Radio 1 about the dangers cyclists face on the roads and it reminded me of an almost-incident last night. As the sun set last night, I was driving down an urban road when a girl on a bike drifted out into the middle of the road in front of me. I wasn’t driving too fast thankfully but still had to press on the brakes hard. When I was only a few feet from her she calmly looked back at us and that’s when I spotted the white buds stuck in […]
Humour
Who controls Bush?
Who really controls the man the White House? Here’s a video interview with the controller himself. Excellent, and enlightening! (via)
When-in-Ireland
Cad a dheanfaimid feasta gan Gaeilge?
What would you do without your national tongue? Richard Waghorne argues unconvincingly that we can do without Irish. My brother Donal provides a very fine rebuttal on his blog. Donal’s reply is startlingly cool and measured, considering how angry I feel after reading Richard’s post. You should definitely read it.
WordPress
WordPress Gathering in San Francisco!
I’m off to San Francisco at the end of the month! Matt is organising WordCamp, a free WordPress conference on August 5th in San Francisco and I’ll be there along with the rest of the Automattic guys. I’m really looking forward to it, meeting people I talk to every day online, hacking on WordPress stuff and taking lots and lots of photos. I’m not the only one making the trip across the Atlantic either; Podz is flying over too!
Music
Lots and Lots of Music Videos From the 80's
This one’s for Jess! Oh ok, I like some 80’s stuff! Over 1,400 music videos from the decade of big hair and shoulder pads! Bah! Only one Queen video, but it’s a good ‘un, “A Kind Of Magic!”