While I’m on the topic of drink advertising, I have to commend Stella Artois on another quality campaign. Saw this one tonight at the cinema: Incidentally, the movie was Thank You for Smoking – a very entertaining slightly Coen brothers-esque comedy. Its one I would normally have skipped thanks to the terrible title, but it [...]
I was in the Guinness Storehouse yesterday, since my brother and his wife were here on holiday. On a Saturday afternoon in July it was always likely to be busy, but this was a queue of Madame Tussauds proportions. As a result, this item on Bernie Goldbach’s Sunday paper round-up does not surprise me: 10. [...]
My favourite thing about Doom 3 was that little ‘chicken fight’ easter egg – a game within the game. Waxy has a link to this project which has taken it a step further, allowing you to play Doom 1 on the little in-game acrcade screen.
Cork City 1 – 1 Apollon Limassol (2-1 agg) Cork City drew with the Cypriot champions tonight in Nicosia, and thus they advance to the next qualifying round of the Champions League. For long spells Apollon were a handful, with their star player – the Polish international Łukasz Sosin – looking particularly dangerous. It was [...]
Still shellshocked by Tuesday night’s activities outside my Cork Street window (almost equalled on the Wednesday and Thursday), I dreaded to see what my first Friday night would bring in this pocket of madness in Dublin’s south inner city. What transpired was beyond anything I would have predicted. The ambulance arrived, as it does every [...]
Today my boss introduced me to Freevo – an open source home theatre system for linux, written in Python. Record your TV shows and save them for later, accessible via the web interface if you’re at work and you forgot that The Return of Howard the Duck is on. A localised and accurate TV guide [...]
Job done in Turner’s Cross this evening as Cork City drove the Cypriot team Apollon Limassol to their first defeat since May 2005 in this Champions League first round qualifier. I was shocked by the poor quality of football from Apollon at times, but it took a nice goal in the second half by Billy [...]
When I gave an account of my adventures in some dodgy parts of Dublin’s south inner city, I had no idea that I had been right outside my sister’s apartment. Today I started working in Dublin, and I am temporarily using her empty room overlooking Saint Theresa’s Gardens (flats from hell), a very dodgy vacant [...]
I got back from Transylvania last night. What struck me most about Eastern Europe was the absolutely dire music. This first became apparent when I boarded the Malev plane in Budapest accompanied by a pan-pipes version of “I’m a Big Big Girl in a Big Big World”. Made even more evident by a series of [...]
The woman at the counter grunted to inform me that there was no ketchup. Cafe Kylemore will win no awards for service, but my god, what joy their sausages bring. No better way to say goodbye to Corcaigh and to Ireland… that is at least until Lennox chipper opens in the new terminal. I wonder [...]