Old Sneezes

Archive for April, 2007

Stuff of all kinds

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Moving the site from WordPress.com to my own had me very excited for a few days there. Maybe it’s a man-thing or a techie-thing, but I was as worked up as a lorry-load of leprechauns at a mini-skirt convention.
Okay, there were so many things that should have worked but didn’t. In the corporate world these [...]

Snippets #3

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

This week, the Central Bank, predicted a slowdown in consumer spending. This worries me greatly. My average visit to Tesco currently takes 15 minutes. As I suffer from trolley rage, if this slows to 20 minutes I may not be able to cope mentally.

For you linguists out there: Pop over to An Cainteoir Dóchais. You [...]

An Open Letter to Van Drivers

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Dear Van Drivers Listen here, wankers! Yeah, you. You in the Celtic/Mar U/Da Pool jersey. You with the Star/Mirror/Mail wedged on the dashboard between the paper coffee cups and left-over breakfast-rolls. Know who you are now?
Why can’t you shower of langers be like your big cousins, the truck drivers, and have some respect for other [...]

Strange Announcements

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

I had EuroNews on the TV this morning. Every 5 minutes or so they made the following announcement.
Boris Yeltsin will be buried live here on EuroNews today.
If they go ahead with it, it will be the best reality TV ever.
It reminds me of years ago when a work colleague sent out an all-employees email:
There will [...]

Back in business … sort of

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Sorry about not posting for a while – I’ve been up the last few nights nursing a very sick database. It is getting better. A bit of a cough, but nothing serious. We may both get some sleep tonight. I need it. I’m more tired than the Michelin Man.
The database is just 3 days old, [...]

I’m off again

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

WELCOME TO THE NEW SITE
And what a sight it is
I solved the issues with incorrectly linked comments … finally. There are still some problems, but they should not affect readers / commenters.
Just one thing to note: Moderation is not turned on. Ignore the message that says it is. I will fix this as soon as [...]

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