Posted by maca on April 4, 2006
I was checking a notice board at work for jobs. There was one job which stood out … “Erection Assistant”. How can a company seriously advertise a job with such a title? Antonio suggested on another post that the name “maca” could be as famous as viagra … … is someone trying to tell me [...]
Posted by maca on April 4, 2006
It was snowing today, can ya believe it? April the shaggin 4th and the snow was coming down in buckets. This bloody winter will never end. Global warming my hole. Someone would want to have a chat with Mother Nature. I would but we’re no longer on speaking terms, something to do with me calling [...]
Posted by maca on April 3, 2006
My head is wrecked trying to think of a new cool and interesting domain name. If I sell the current one (looks likely) i’ll have to find a new virtual home but am hopeless at thinking of cool names. I thought “poncdotpiste” might be one option (“dot” in Irish, English & Finnish). Or maybe I [...]
Posted by maca on March 31, 2006
The Good – My exotic dancing tour of the Far East is at an end. I’m home, recovered from the few viruses I picked up over there and am ready for blogging again. – I’ve been made an offer for my domain … 4 figures … i’ve accepted. The Bad I’m out of tea bags. [...]
Posted by maca on March 8, 2006
Blogging may be slow here for the next two weeks or so. I’m off on a business trip tomorrow and I’m not sure if there’ll be net access where i’m heading. For those of you going to the Irish Blog Awards this weekend have a good night, make sure to pass on my regards to [...]
Posted by maca on March 2, 2006
Great result in Lansdowne last night. Who could have predicted that? Three-nil against the Swedes. Well done Stan and lads. I was totally against Stan getting the managers job, I still don’t think he’s the right man for the job but of course he’s manager now and no matter what we have to get behind [...]
Posted by maca on March 1, 2006
It’s rare I post games here but i’ve been having good craic with this one, via TCAL, Sesam Katapult. (it’s in Nor-wee-gin but you can figure it out). My high score so far 1604.8/ALta.
Posted by maca on March 1, 2006
I wanted to avoid posting much on the riots as the blogoshpere is saturated by commentary on Saturday’s events, hence my only post on the subject so far was short and simple (much like myself). However I wanted to highlight two points which I feel are very important. The Big lad (hat-tip UI) had the [...]
Posted by maca on February 27, 2006
A couple of interesting tidbits for you. Time photo essays If you’re not a regular visitor to Time.com you should consider paying it a visit once in a while. Check out their Photo essays section, there’s some damn interesting stuff there on various topics from sports to Middle Eastern politics. I thought Women Warriors was [...]
Posted by maca on February 24, 2006
Just got my first (that i’m aware of) mention in a podcast … Conn’s (An t-Imeall) post/cast about the nominees in the Irish language category (Best Use of the Irish Language in a Blog) of the Irish blog awards. Such publicity is always appreciated … as is cash and tea bags … just for future [...]