I was not a Hamster person, but this little guy had something special. This was taken a week before he died. Not sure what happened to him,but in the space of one day sick, he just passed away a few hours ago. RIP
Patirck
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Doo-Lally
Calling all recessionistas and fashionistas – who fancies some new clothes and accessories without taking out a bank loan? If you want to be in with a chance of winning a €250 voucher for new fashion retail website Doo-Lally.com to spend with us when we launch March 1st, all you have to do is register with Doo-Lally and recommend a friend who you think will like the site too before the end of January and you could have a whole new wardrobe for the spring! Not bad right? Get registering
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Grilled lemon & herb chicken with mash
One of my plans for this year is to create some interesting meals. Interesting, for me that is you might find many of them a little ordinary. And I love nothing better than to integrate technology into my passions.
I downloaded ‘Jamie Oliver 20 Minute Meals’ for my iPhone, which as the name would indicate suits me down to the ground, simple yet a little interesting . Jamie (and the designers) have put a lot of love into this little application, it is very easy to use. Yesterday I cooked up the above. And yes the above image is from the application mine did not looks as delectable, it it tasted pretty damn good if I may say so myself!
By the way, you may have noticed my avoidance of the words – new year resolutions, I am calling these new year plans, it seems resolutions never pan out. EVER!
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There was something odd about Dublin this morning. Everyone was operating in slow motion. People who walked to work, started out at their usual rushed pace, but quickly realised speed is not the way this morning, and reduced to a cautious ice-avoidance dance.
I figured out fast it is safer - for where I live, to walk on the road and avoid the footpath completely. It was the first day back at work for a lot of people. Very few were without gloves, many had a hot coffee with both hands clasped around the paper cup. Of course it has been like this for the past while, but I had the joy of not stepping out in it.
Happy New Year.
By the way, if we have had a very cold and icy winter does that mean we can have a wonderful warm summer also? I tweeted the above pictures this morning. Dublin looks great in white, but it is a very cautious white indeed!
Read more...I don’t watch most reality TV, it annoys me for the most part. I particularly detest celebrity reality shows, usually featuring forgotten, famous for being famous, or ‘remember him/her’ (no not really…) celebrities. So my question to you?
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Read more...There is a lot of under the hood changes, but some interesting changes to the media components, such as an build in image editor!
- Global undo/”trash” feature, which means that if you accidentally delete a post or comment you can bring it back from the grave (i.e., the Trash). This also eliminates those annoying “are you sure” messages we used to have on every delete.
- Built-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images to show them who’s boss. This is the first wave of our many planned media-handling improvements.
- Batch plugin update and compatibility checking, which means you can update 10 plugins at once, versus having to do multiple clicks for each one, and we’re using the new compatibility data from the plugins directory to give you a better idea of whether your plugins are compatible with new releases of WordPress. This should take the fear and hassle out of upgrading.
- Easier video embeds that allow you to just paste a URL on its own line and have it magically turn it into the proper embed code, with Oembed support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv (and more in the next release).
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News
Mark Little (needs no introduction to Irish people), is about to leave RTE, talks about the future of news, and the role of social networking, a very well presented piece, worth a full watch.
Read more...Mark Little, Presenter of RTE”s Prime Time and a former RTE Washington correspondent, will give a lecture on the future of News Media, to the IIEA’s Digital Future Group. Mr Little recently announced his decision to take a year’s leave from RTE to set up his own global online news service. LINK & video below
O2 Broadband
O2 has finally launched prepay broadband, the prices are not bad at all. Very handy if you don’t wanted to be tied into a contract! The prices are looking like 20 euro for 30 days of use, capped at 5GB of usage. The cost of the modem is starting at 69 euro. Nice idea for a Christmas gift.
O2 today announced the launch of a mobile broadband service for prepay customers. The new service offers prepay customers a viable alternative to fixed broadband, providing a fast and easy way for them to get Internet and email access, whether they are at home, in the office or on the move.
O2 Prepay Broadband is available from €3.99 for a 24 hour pass which includes 500MB of data usage or €19.99 for a 30 day pass which includes 5GB of data usage. Mobile broadband modems are available from €69.
Customers also have the opportunity to try out O2’s mobile broadband service before making a final purchase decision, under O2’s innovative ‘Try Before You Buy’ initiative. Customers can borrow a mobile broadband modem for a 72 hour trial period. When the trial period is over and if the customer is happy with the service they can return to the store and choose the pricing option which best suits their usage needs, whether it is on prepay or contract.
Commenting, Anthony O’Neill, Head of Marketing Strategy, Telefónica O2 Ireland, said, “O2 Prepay Broadband is a welcome addition to our already extensive broadband portfolio. We are confident that our great value offering combined with our dedicated broadband customer care team and our high speed network will prove extremely popular with prepay customers.”
In 2008 O2 completed a multi-million Euro upgrade of its 3G / HSDPA network to offer customers faster speeds.
Prepay Broadband is now available from all O2 outlets nationwide including Carphone Warehouse. It is also available online at www.o2.ie
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