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I’ve come across this letter on the internet and in emails many times over the years and it never fails to make me laugh. Its an oldie but a goodie and it comes via “You’ve Got Laughs! The Big Book of Internet Humor” by Al Lowe Dear Mr. Baker, As an employee of an institution of higher education, I have  [ Read More ]

Last Sunday I went to McDaids, Midleton, Co. Cork to video an album launch for my friend Bobby Lee, a well respected and talented musician from Ireland. His album “The Future History” has 9 tracks and is available for preview, mp3 download or cd at Cd Baby Here’s one review describing the album: Mark Mc Clelland – Backstage Traffic “The  [ Read More ]

I had a reason this week to try and find the actual direct path to an.flv on YouTube, I was trying out the excellent JW Media Player by Jeroen Wijering it supports playback of flv files among a host of other formats heres a quick excerpt from his website “JW Media Player supports playback of a single media file of  [ Read More ]

While reading a post in Robert Sweetnams Blog today about the surge of cocaine related deaths this week in Ireland it made me stop and think about the pitfalls of drug abuse in general. There are people who don’t do drugs and wonder why other people do. Its a freedom of choice for those who take drugs such as heroin,  [ Read More ]

Tonight I am in Cork City at The Savoy for the Seeing Red Records Christmas Launch Party. I will be responsible for the live video web broadcast which will start at 10pm till 2am. I will be using my Canon XL2 and Windows Media Encoder running on my laptop to encode and broadcast this event live. There will also be  [ Read More ]

I was asked by my friend Shane Supple if it was possible to download a video that was uploaded to Bebo.com. It is not as straight forward as you may think, having tinkering around with source code etc. I discovered that when you upload a video to Bebo you are actually storing your file on www.videoegg.com so I took the  [ Read More ]

Update 3rd Dec 07: James over at SkreemR has officially added my Firefox plugin to their 3rd party plugins “Tools” page view the page here I coded this firefox add-on to query the SkreemR mp3 search site much quicker than the standard search tool add-on. SkreemR currently provide a useful search add-on, it installs SkreemR search to your current list  [ Read More ]

An easy tutorial on how to grab a thumbnail image screen shot of any website. This is an easy way for webmasters to grab a screen shot of their own websites to include them in their portfolio pages, clients websites or just storing the images for later use. We will use Snap Shots cached thumbnails to retrieve a web page  [ Read More ]

In my last post I mentioned about problems connecting to my own blog from my home broadband connection with Imagine/Gaelic Telecom. Although it is now fixed I am still having problems accessing my friend Robert’ Sweetnam’s Blog. I am accessing his blog through proxify.com its the only way at the moment – I rang Gaelic Telecom/Imagine support again last Friday  [ Read More ]

This a Google Maps visual tour of the pubs of Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. There are 28 active pubs and bars in the town. Click on markers to view photos, address, telephone numbers, pub info etc. I created this map just for fun but also to play around with ideas on how to code for Google Maps. Click here to  [ Read More ]

Click here to view the “Youghal Clock Gate – Live Clock” I created this flash live clock from a picture of Youghal Clock Gate. If you keep watching the hands on the clock you will see them move in real time based on your own computer’s time clock, it was an idea I had for a while so if you  [ Read More ]

I haven’t been able to connect to my own website with over 2 weeks, I could ftp or use a proxy server and that was fine but no browser connection with either FireFox or Internet Explorer. By the way my broadband connection is with Gaelic Telecom who are a white label for Imagine so on Friday night last I called  [ Read More ]