Navel Gazing via While Stocks Last
If you ask Nina what were her favourite places we visited, she would answer Sydney and Cusco. Nina and I are very alike.It's been two weeks since we left Cusco, and I haven't yet blogged on the town itself, even if I have mentioned it obliquely a number of times. Time and distance, if I give them the chance, are waiting to rob me of my memories of this wonderful town, and so before that happens I'd like to take you on a walk.When you turn left at the door to the Hospedaje San Blas, you walk downhill on the narrow and impossibly slippery footpaths of Cuesta San Blas. The cobbled road is wide enough for one car, and it's rarely free of traffic. At the end of the road, you cross to the pedestrianised route that leads past the famous 12-cornered stone, expertly set in place by the Incas and... All locked out via In Photos dot org
A neighbour’s gate is securely locked. As secure as a 3 foot high driveway gate will ever be I suppose.
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Tags: Blarney, Canon 20D, Cork, Cork Photos, gate, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, knots, lomo, rope, Sigma 18-200, tied up, Urban... RTE’s Recipe For Success wants foodies to contribute via Damien Mulley
RTE Cork are currently in pre-production for a new food and business programme called Recipe for Success where they invite amateur cooks to submit their original recipe ideas. The best ideas will then be selected and participants will be invited to present their recipes to a well-respected Irish food businessman who will over several weeks select a winner. The winner will then have their product sold in the Supervalu.
The closing date for applications is 26th September 2008
For further information please email the show at recipeforsuccess@rte.ie
Or write to them at:
Recipe For Success?,
RTÉ,
Father Mathew Street,
Cork.... Electric Picnic - my must-see acts! via BifSniff » Frank
Ok, legging it here to get packed for the Electric Picnic… in case anyone is doing last minute research online for who they should see, here’s my must-see list.
Times and stages are provisional because Electric Picnic organisers have not released the official schedule, if I thought it was a cynical ploy to get more of us to buy those timetables for around your neck at about €25 a pop or something after paying €240 for a ticket I would NOT be happy. Especially seeing as they seem incapable of producing a usable timetable - it’s always impossible to figure out.
There is LOADS of other great music, and plenty of clashes, but below are my MUST-SEE’s. Thanks to the kind folks on Twitter including rinkyrink, nialler9 and Elimare for their help in dicovering some... Fluffy Links - Thursday August 28th 2008 via Damien Mulley
Travel plans via Gavin's Blog
Shower via glasseyalley . com
Water ran down the walls leading toward the slipway by the old mine-shafts on the Copper Coast in Waterford. Cold, odd tasting water. Yes, I tasted it. It's just something I do from time to time. Unless it's a funny colour.... A Huge Spanner via Riemann's Cut
It actually works too! I found a set of them while routing around in some... No Alcohol via In Photos dot org
No drinking on the street. This reminds me of an incident several years ago when I was in town with a group of friends on a Saturday night. This was before I started drinking, and my friends bought cans of beer in an off-license.
The guy behind the counter warned them the Guards were about watching for people drinking alcoholic beverages in public and they seemed to heed his warning until they got across the road and popped open their cans.
Sure enough, within 2 minutes a Garda was there! He took their names and addresses, and asked them to stop drinking, and of course gave them an awful fright. I followed a chastened group of lads to the pub. Don’t even know why they wanted to drink outside as the pub was just around the corner. Could have been the “poor student” in... 
WP Super Cache 0.7 - the dupe content killer via Holy Shmoly!
WordPress.org user, “definitelynot” discovered a bug in the WordPress plugin, WP Super Cache that could expose blogs to duplicate content penalties. Unfortunately this affects every blog that uses the plugin in “ON” or full “Super Cache” mode, and has URLs that end with the “/” (forward slash) character. If the plugin is on “half on” mode, you’ll be fine.
The problem is that an anonymous user might visit a legitimate URL, ending with a slash, the plugin then creates a static file out of that page, which is then used when people visit the same URL. Unfortunately if someone links to that URL without the ending slash, a visiting browser or search engine bot won’t be redirected to the proper URL, they’ll be served... How much did it cost? via While Stocks Last
Now that we're back, and we know how much we actually spent (as opposed to what we had budgeted for) I can publish the finances for the trip. I've taken out some details - in particular the home running costs which vary for everyone (and in any case are none of your business thank you ;-) ). Before clicking on the link, which will bring you to a Google spreadsheet, there are a few things to note about how we organized the budget.The first page of the spreadsheet is the most interesting one. The main section shows our predicted breakdown of costs by country and category. Then to the right there are the more sobering columns: actual expense and difference between it and the budgeted amount.The bottom line? We spent EUR 58,400 (US$85,700/GBP46,800), not including costs of keeping things...
Fluffy Links - Wednesday August 27th 2008 via Damien Mulley
Very late but what the heck!
SoHo Solo, the West Cork business network has a new blog/website. I do blogs. No need to give them my email to get updates now. Good man Calvin!
I like this from OFTR. Dell Boy.
I love FFFFound. What a cool image.
There’s now car pooling/hourly car rental in Cork.
Senator Mark Daly now has a YouTube channel. No need for ambien for those sleepless nights now.
For those that like their statporn in graph format.
And then Debz points out StairPorn.
Propose Live on TV with WillYouMarryMe.ie - I expect a sister site called RejectedGobshites.ie to pop up any day now.
This is marketing. Clever Burger King.
The Scottish are coming. Hard Working Class Heroes lineup announced.
So the Sunday Times want to know about every communication between Independent News and... Crewger - A Site for Irish Filmcrews & Makers via Cormac Moylan
Crewger is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of the Irish film community by facilitating the production, promotion and exhibition of original content by film-makers of all ages and backgrounds working in Ireland today.
Crewger is very much a social network for those involved or wanting to get involved in the Irish Film Industry. The site offers discussion forums, user profiles, a directory of users with their qualifications/interests listed and site even offers its users a blog-type-platform for article publication.
One such article is titled ‘The Lessons of In Bruges‘ and is a very enjoyable analysis of Colin Farrel’s performance, the national and international cultural side of the movie and of course the direction.
While I like the idea behind the site and... Clinton speech in Wordle via Gavin's Blog
I’m going to Creative Camp Belfast - What about ye? - Saturday Sept 6th 2008 via Damien Mulley
Creative Camp, Nordyland, Saturday Sept 6th 2008.
Never been to Nordyland. This should be interesting. I marked myself down as not doing a talk but I do have one I’d like to try out after thinking about it more. I won’t say what the talk is but I hope it’s entertaining. For me. Maybe the audience will like it too but getting a reaction is the goal. One hint: It involves air travel. I won’t say anymore.
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I’m reminded of this and stereotypes for some reason:... The one with sausage snobbery amongst other things via Down with my Life by Vic Barry
Like many things in this blog, this post may seem a bit "out there". But it makes sense, like every other post!Its been suggested that I explain my sausage snobbery at length on the blog. An elaboration of sorts. Over the last few years, Ive had a great love affair with cooking, and I still do. And when you start removing your pants to cook books and frying pans, you pay a bit more attention to the actual food you buy and cook with. So a while back I started paying attention to the pork content in sausages. For as long as I can remember, any oul pack of sausages would have been horsed into the shopping trolley. Then, when I started the love affair with spatulas and the likes, we started getting sausages that had 80% pork content. How can I describe the difference?Well, take the movie I am...
What! The Canon EOS 50D announced already? via In Photos dot org
Yes, yes, boo hoo, oh woe is me, my Canon 40D arrived on the day the new Canon 50D was announced. If only I had waited, my photos would be so much better with the Canon 50D.
Yeah right. I’ve already stated before that the equipment behind the camera is the most important part of image making. Sure, the camera does matter, but DSLRs are getting to the stage PCs got to a few years ago. Upgrading doesn’t significantly change the game. I’ll upgrade again in maybe 3 years. No rush.
The Canon 50D looks sweet though. 15MP sensor, better ISO, better LCD. Nice upgrade. Roland has linked to a few of the sites previewing or discussing the Canon 50D. The Rob Galbraith page is probably the most readable, but the DPReview preview has a neat comparison table to compare the Canon 50D... Want to start a business in the South East? via Damien Mulley
Via Eugene (and Keith covers it too)
SEEPP - the South East Enterprise Platform Programme that’s run in the WIT Centre for Entrepreneurship starts again in September.
They have a few places left for this programme that starts in September so if you’re thinking should you/shouldn’t you/maybe I might etc. why not give Eugene Crehan a call or email and have a confidential chat. He’s on 051 302953 or email ecrehan < at > wit.ie, hurry though. You just have enough time.... I want one… via Cormac Moylan
ComReg: The problem to telecoms solutions in Ireland via Damien Mulley
ComReg are the telecoms regulator in Ireland. Their job is to make competition in telecoms healthy which should result in better offers and great pricings.
Recently they had another consultation and decided that eircom’s wholesale price for a wholesale broadband product (we’ll call it that for now) needed to come down in price. This was an extensive consultation and was really drawn out. So they decided on a new price. All the competition of eircom said “Yay”. But eircom didn’t like it and went to Court about it, which they are well entitled to do.
Even before they went to Court, ComReg’s own staffers were fairly open in thinking eircom would win in Court. But the Courts are on holiday now so we’ll all have to wait. Except we don’t.
ComReg... Win tickets to see John Colleary at the Comedy Club via CorkGigs.com - News & Reviews
John Colleary hits City Limits Comedy Club this Saturday 30th August.
Born in Sligo and based in Dublin, coming comic John Colleary is a familiar face on the Irish comedy scene making regular appearances at The International, The Comedy Cellar, and The Capital Comedy Club in Dublin and a host of venues throughout the country.
“The familiar cheeky wit of John Colleary guided an expectant audience through an evening of tear-inducing laughter.”
– The Weekender
The show kicks off at 9pm and tickets are available now at €18. To be in with a chance to win a pair of tickets for Saturday night’s show, just send your name in an email to competitions@corkgigs.com with the subject “John Colleary”.
Competition closes midnight Thursday 28th.
More about John Colleary:... 8 Months in 4 Minutes via While Stocks Last
A 4-minute tour of the world, to the music of New Zealand band Shihad (the song is called Vampires and it was playing a lot when we were there). It might take a while to load - best to let it load and watch it all at once....
Ye olde church via In Photos dot org
This church in Castletownbere in West Cork looks like it may have seen better days but by the looks of the mowed grass it’s probably still in use.
The Canon 40D was delivered today. I could have posted a sample picture but I didn’t have time to shoot anything interesting besides a few snaps of family. Loving the 3″ LCD on the back of the camera, it’s so quiet compared to the Canon 20D, hardly any noise at ISO 400, and experimenting with the auto ISO mode. That should help with street photography where light conditions change so rapidly.
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Tags: Architecture, Black and White, Castletownbere, church, Cork, Cork Photos, grass, Ireland, Irish photos, irishblogs, Nature, path, Urban,... Back to School the Healthy Way with Organico! via Organico Bantry
At this time of year we get parents coming into Organico looking to boost their child’s immune system, prevent the scourge of headlice or help calm their children down, as the return to school can cause anxiety levels to go through the roof!
As an immune system boost, we would recommend a liquid tonic such as Kindervital, which is made from all natural fruits, vegetables and herbs with vitamins added in case the school-day diet is lacking. If a child was prone to colds, Children’s Echinacea from A.Vogel could be added to Kindervital to give extra protection. Both can be taken at breakfast time with juice.
As a headlice treatment or preventative, we offer Riddance, a shampoo made from Neem oil which has very powerful anti-lice action, though it is gentle on the scalp, smells... Tuesday Push August 26th 2008 - Crewger - Bringing Film Crews together via Damien Mulley
So you have an idea for a film, then what? Well. Crewger might be able to help.
Crewger helps bring people together to create films. Simple idea and apparently very much needed in Ireland. The more official blurb states:
Crewger is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of the Irish film community by facilitating the production, promotion and exhibition of original content by film-makers of all ages and backgrounds working in Ireland today.
While there are discussion forums out there, there’s nothing much webified about the Film Industry in Ireland. Crewger offers a nice way of finding crews for films with their search facility and building a community and forging links. In short Crewger is a social object for film in Ireland.
You can also check out the Crewger Twitter... A Song for the Democratic Party Convention via Branedy
This song always brings a tear to my eye Abraham, Martin & John should be played at every Democratic......
The one with people in sheds via Down with my Life by Vic Barry
Morning, afternoon and all those pleasantries. A while back I came up with a simple text poll that asked the question, are you listening naked. And over 1 in 2 people, listen to Cork Talks Back with Victor Barry, nekkid. Now, that poll is coming around again in the next few days, so get stripping.Last night, another question was posed by yours truly. "Where are you listening?". Its easier for the audience to see what I look like via the web, but its difficult for me to imagine alot of the audience, naked or otherwise. So, being a curious fella, I wondered aloud where do people actually listen to the show.Boats, Baths, Cliffs, Mountains, Tractors, Car Boots and Sheds were just a selection of what I got back via text. In particular, sheds seemed to be the outright winner when it came to...