A Night at the Opera…
Last night was my first ever trip to the Opera! I went to see Opera Ireland’s production of Madama Butterfly with my girlfriend in the Gaiety Theatre(pictured on the right), Dublin. It was sung in Italian but on the right and left of the stage were hung boards that gave the English subtitles. The production was excellent and the singing was really good. The leading lady was especially good and we were able to appreciate some of the great things that opera singers are able to do with their voices. Puts x-factor to shame for sure 
. However while the show was excellent, the seats we had were pretty awful. I paid €60 each for a couple of box seats that I hoped would allow us to see everything that was going on. The fact that they were still available at an almost sold out performance should have told me something! They we terrible. We were aware that there were six seats in our box and that we would have to share, little did we know they were going to be so small that we felt uncomfortable sharing such a space with the family that happened to be in there with us!
A few changes – Gallery, Spam, etc.
Over the last few days, I’ve been making some changes to this site. I mentioned recently that I was getting a ridiculous amount of SPAM for a site that gets very few people reading it… so I decided that I was spending too much moderating comments. Off I went looking for an automatic moderation method [...]
Voices that matter to me.. on CSS
I recently bought a couple of books from Amazon.com on this hobby of mine - Web Design. Dan Cederholm’s “Bulletproof Web Design” and “Transcending CSS” by Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag, Aaron Gustafson, and Mark Boulton. And great books that they are I was caught by the by tag line of the publisher - “Voices [...]
A Minor Milestone.. in Spam!
Well today, apart from the big news from the US about Barack Obama becoming the president elect of the USA, I hit a bit of a milestone. This wordpress blog hit its 100th SPAM comment this morning. Well I was excited.
It also got me thinking about my comment system and why my tiny blog is [...]
Embarrassed to be Irish
Its not often that I’ll come out and say something like this but at this morning I really am embarrassed to be Irish. Last night was Halloween and for whatever reason some people saw this as a reason to go mental and start burning everything from cars to buildings, and attacking emergency services that showed [...]
