Category Archives: holidays


Airport observations and a tonka truck of a hangover

I went home last weekend to visit my pals and family. It was awesome. For various reasons, I needed to go home and get pissed and good lord, that I did.
This is what I can remember from Saturday night-

Leaving twelfth lock
chatting to conor on train
going into odeon
Dancing by the table
Dancing my ass off on the […]

Australia Day 2007

It’s been a whole three years since I was in Sydney celebrating Australia day. I’ve done a lot since then but so much of me wishes I was back there waving my paper flags. Those were good times . It’s also nice to see the Aussies kicking England’s ass in the cricket once again. I […]

Sweet Memories

A good buddy of mine sent me this in email format - well worth a read. It’ll make you think.
Ah I remember them well Way back…. I’m talking about Hide and seek in the park The shop down the road, Hopscotch, Donkey, skipping, handstands, stuck in the mud, football with an old can, Dandy, […]

Geek resolutions

As it’s new year and my motivation is at an all time low, I think a list of TODOs (or new years resultions) is needed. Some of those listed are techy and some are not but all of them are aimed at improving my life.
I will

Finish the new design of this site - […]

Christmas Charity - the Open Source way

Every year for the last few years I have given to charity at Christmas. Last year it was Oxfam but this year I wanted to do something a bit different. In the early days of Aggreg8 development, I got a $10 donation and it freaked me out, I coded for days with a crazy energy […]

Blanch onslaught

Dooley, Tara and Enda arrived over 2 weekends ago to see if I was still alive. We had a great weekend, consisting of eating, drinking, golfing, dancing and drinking. Cheers for coming over guys.

Testing Aer Arran

Last weekend I went to see my dad near Galway. This time I didn’t fly with my beloved Ryanair to Shannon but with Aer Arran direct to galway from Manchester. It’s a small ariline with small planes so I was hopeful to have a quick and trouble free trip. I did, apart from a 20 […]

Sunny Spain

I’m off for a week in Spain to play “The Hoff”, get pissed and pinkify my belly.

Ireland June 06

As I mentioned before, I was in ireland last week at Marty’s wedding and visiting my folks. I now have the photos up - some quite embarrassing but I ahve a rule that if it’s on the camera - it’s going online

Marty’s Wedding
Underwater pictures from diving (pages 6 to 11)

There are a few […]

Complete relaxation

I’m over in the motherland for the best part of a week trying to relax and de-stress. We got the ferry from Holyhead on friday afternoon. Stayed at my mum’s on friday night and saturday morning we drove down to Cahir in county Tipperary (It’s a long way) for my mate clav’s wedding which as […]