2011 it's still kinda new?

I've been working on my masters, projects, exams and I've got a new job.

So excuses aside I will be posting more regularly this year!

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Stupid Apple OS 4 is stupid

Since I upgraded my iPod Touch to OS 4 I've seen a big difference. The Wifi is a lot better, hurrah!

But the Synching of Podcasts is woeful. I download my podcasts wirelessly each morning and listen to them. This is all fine. When I plug my iPod into my computer it "synchs" it.

Now when I look at my podcasts, the timer doesn't display and I can't scrub through it anymore!!!

Fix this!!!

The Aviva Stadium - First Impressions

Last night I went to see the famous Manchester United play against the Airtricity XI in the first football match in the redeveloped Lansdowne Road. It's now known as the Aviva Stadium, but they've not paid me so it's Lansdowne road.

It was my first time seeing Manchester United play so that was a real treat.

The stadium itself is nice but there are some major flaws in both the stadium and access to the stadium.

Walking down Lansdowne Road to get to the entrance for my purple ticket, there are no signs at all. It's only when you get near the ground you are directed away from it by a steward. You are sent all the way to Ballsbridge to then have to cross the bridge and walk back down to the stadium. This added about 20 minutes to the journey. This also meant we had to walk through a small tunnell under the DART Bridge, which was big enough for 3 / 4 people abreast. It was the very definition of a bottleneck.

Access to the stadium from there is fine, I think the automated turnstiles might be troublesome though.

Lots of steps later and we were confronted with lots of bars. Bars that only sold Guinness, wine, Carlsberg and soft drinks. The queue for food was just ridiculous, but the staff are probably new and that will speed up and I suppose it wasn't a typical football crowd at the game, a lot of first timers, and people there for the novelty. The toilets have dryers, that just isn't going to work.

The seats had a good view of the pitch but not of the big screens, so just don't miss anything.

At the end of the match we walked out into a complete bottle neck. The DART gates were down so there were 40000 people just standing there who were then directed back to the small tunnell I spoke about earlier. The lighting wasn't great and again there were no signs. Luckily I know my way around there are walked back to Ballsbridge.

Some of these problems, like access and the queues for food will be ironed out, but not being able to see the big screens or the pitch when people 4 rows down from you stand up are more serious flaws.

i'm back...

I've got blogging software on my phone so I've got no excuses!

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South Africa Vs. Mexico

God only knows what affect playing at home will have on South Africa.

I think Mexico will win this one though.

FIFA World Cup

I'm excited, it's less than half an hour to go to kick off. A month of football, hurrah.

I'm going to try and blog as much as I can over the next month.

Rugby rip off

Munster Vs Leinster is going to be held on Good Friday. So the publicans of Limerick will loose a fortune in business, but it's ok, the bars in Thomand Park will be open.

In tough times we really should help each other out and not try to screw each other over!

Magic box saves world

Tabloid headline or not, check out the Bloombox. The report doesn't really give enough detail it just throws up lots of questions.

Remember Steorn?

Comment Spam

You right a post about Google Webmaster tools and it's like flies around sh.....

It's amazing how much spam a single subject can bring you!

Google Webmaster Tools

I've been trying to improve the search ranking of Furniture Dublin. I have added it to Google Webmaster tools and I've uploaded a Sitemap.

I'm going to spend the next week or 2 following the tips and using the tools available there.

First things first I will put individual meta tags on each page, currently they are all the same. Step number 2 is removing the duplicate titles on each page. There is a long road ahead.

Furniture Dublin

It's been a while since I last blogged but I have been busy. It's hard to blog and have a life too, or at least I find it difficult.

I've been working on a few sites lately and one is Furniture Designs.

It is a furniture shop on the Old Bawn Road in Tallaght and a friend of mine runs it.

The new design is concise and clear and shows off the range of furniture that they stock. I have to saw from being in the shop it is lovely. I'd need to either get rid of my current furniture or get a bigger house. I would love to take home a lot of what they have in there.

The site itself is HTML, CSS and some Classic ASP. It renders well in most browsers but if you have a problem, leave a comment and I will make sure to try and fix it.

So if it's Furniture Dublin you are looking for, go to Furniture designs.

The French

Well the French did it, they won and are on the way to the World Cup.

It was horrible, it wasn't particularly fair but I suppose that's why we love sports. It helps you forget about your real troubles for a few brief moments.

If Ireland get a penalty...

I think they should try this..

Would John Gormley do this?

In your time of trouble, would John Gormley do this?

I bet he would have recylced the iron bar!

Free stuff for €2.99

The Irish Independent, innovators that they are, have come up with an iPhone app to read the newspaper. I saw it online and thought that's a good idea.

I went to download the app and was horrified that it cost €2.99.

€2.99 to read the paper online, that you can read for free online! Are they serious?

I'm going to continue to read the Independent online, for free, I won't be wasting money on the iPhone app.

A new start I swear...

The last post was about being a lazy poster and then over a month later I'm pretty much going to say the same thing.

Marathon is finished, well for this year, a slow 4.46.20 but I really enjoyed this one.

Now expect a post every couple of days from now on.

Lazy Blogger

I have many excuses and some of which are pretty good, but the main reason I've not been blogging is I'm a bit lazy.

I've been training for a marathon and working and living my life so I've not been twiddling my thumbs.

I will try harder though!

Some Ideas for recovery.

German unemployment has risen to 8.3%. This doesn't sound too good but if you read on you will see that only 9000 more people have lost their jobs last month. That is a tiny fraction of the amount losing their jobs in Ireland.

Is it because the Irish economy is in a worse state than Germany's? Well yes, but the Germans have implemented a plan that subsidises jobs, and encourages shorter worker weeks, so that people will take a cut in wages but will not need to go on full unemployment benefit which is a lot of money. It also has the benefit of keeping manufacturing going and thus bringing in VAT and keeping exporters at work.

With a little bit more imagination and we could recover a lot sooner and there would be a lot less people heading towards skid row.

Sometimes simple solutions solve complex problems but trying to solve them invariably solves them quikcer than doing nothing.

Breaking news - a dog dies!

An old dog died today. Not just any old dog, the oldest dog in the world, ahem.

I have to go out now and get a black armband and fly the flag at half mast.

A no brainer.

If you have no brain, everything is a no brainer! Mary Harney yesterday said that it was a no brainer to ban sunbeds because they cause cancer.

But of course cigarettes are fine. They don't cause any health problems, nor does alcohol, fast foods, junk food... and so on and so forth.

I wonder was she just trying to impress Lance.