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Archive for November, 2008
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 [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
Read MoreVoices 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 [...]
Read MoreA 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 [...]
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