So that was Christmas

To set the scene...

It's my first day back at work after the Christmas holidays.
It's a frankly ridiculous -421.21 degrees out side or
at least some temperature well below that needed to support
carbon based life forms. I've been up since 7 am it's now 9 am
and I don't expect to see daylight today in short Bah !

Had a fairly nice Christmas at home with the oul pair
got everything I wanted (cos I’m good). Anyway rants aside
this post will be dedicated to the new year:

Resolutions:
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- Do 10 KM run on January 30th (in Castlebar)
- Train for the bloody thing
- Complete one of the following projects
- Write a social network site (or page)
- Write and distribute and mobile app (j2me)
- Host web apps from own server
- Use a Linux based OS for 30% of computing
- Reacquaint myself with java
- Explore Galway
- Try a new restaurant/pub/nite club once a month
- Head out west see what happens
- Take road trips i keep saying I’ll make
- Cork - to see Barkey
- Kerry
- Donegal
- Pass driving test
- Write a computer game no matter how small and crappy
- Write shorter lists
- Be a lil better
- Be nicer to ppl
- Give more to charity
- Think about people I don't see everyday
- Keep in touch with people better
- Get better at guitar by going back to the theory
- Read a book
- Go to more gigs (Especially Fred gigs there slightly magical)
- Try to drink a little less
- Go to more Galway utd games
- Be more giving of my time
- Pirate less
- Ninja more

Oh and follow through more when i have awesome ideas.

Awesome idea of the day
# Make money selling customised Bebo Skins # P&P (not really though)

Thoughts, comments ?

Why I Love Christmas

Child-like optimism

Class !!

This is what Science needs to do

When I was a young boy growing up in Cavan
I was gifted with an inherent curiosity about
the world, how it works , why it worked, how
energy and mass where somehow related .....

I was in short into science. There really 2
sections of science and 2 kinds of scientific
work 1. those who explain the way things are/where
and those who are messing round new stuff and these
people are my favourite because whenever they find
something new they ask "what will we do with it now"

Now the whole DNA "Thing" has been in the works for decades
now, we discovered DNA and started finding out how it worked
what I did and then Scientists asked themselves what they were
going to do with it . Some went towards find cures and preventative
methods (gene therapy), some set about creating designer babies
Someone however has put his/her (most likely their) time into this :

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008413077_mammoth20.html

Cloning from DNA brings up all kinds of ethical questions about playing god
and identity and a persons soul. But surly in the case of a long extinct
animal there's a greater good.

Imagine if they really did it, brought a woolly mammoth to life!
Imagine seeing one on the news when the host elephant gives birth
There’d be a webcam on it 24/7 every birthday we'd get an update.
Maybe they'd do a Zoo tour with him/her and everyone could actually
see a mammoth in the flesh (and hair).

I don't know if this is as exciting for others as it is for me
as someone who spent much of there time (age 7 - 12) flicking
through dinosaur magazines, but I realty think this is something
that would capture everyone's imagination. Whenever science fiction
becomes real everyone takes notice with a childlike enthusiasm.

Murphy’s law states "Any sufficiently future based technology is
indistinguishable from magic"

If the internet can bring back the Wispa
maybe it can bring back the Mammoth too

Am I the only one who thinks this is very very funny

Global warming,
Credit crunch,
Economic recession,
and increasing violence on the streets

it's no wonder....

Hello My Blog Shaped Friend

Hi All,

So the other day I put a post about a bit
of software I'd like to see written (by someone else)
and Gally left a comment about a road block for the idea
which in turn sent the developer in me search for a work
around.

Point is I know some smart imaginative ppl and I'm board
so I'm dedicating this post to the creative and intelligent
nature of my friends (I hope this isn't reading sarcastically (-;)

So here's what's happening I'm going to list a topic and I want you
opinion on the topic , but it must be exactly 3 word and no more
though shall not shall not use 4 words or use 2 words unless they
be followed by a third ...five is way out !

1. How I'd tackle the economy :
2. How I'd improve social networking (bebo facebook etc):
3. Web 3.0 will be all about :
4. Irish ppl should react will _ _ _ to the many cultures coming here to live
5. Spurs need to :
6. The biggest difference between and women (keep it clean):
7. The biggest problem in Ireland is :
8. For me Christmas means :
9. Sean is awesome cos :

Look forward to seeing the comments

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Oh Dear

*Some text missing*

Muwhahahahahahahaha cue rocky music

this is just funny (-; im sure cam won't mind me putting it up
this just goes the show that put someone in a toy store they turn
into a 10 yr old. Prob didn't help that she was there with me and pete


- Sean

Ok seriously fantastic idea for a bit of software.

Just thought of this one as i was day dreaming of

returning to Tenerife to sunshine and cheap beer.

 

Here's the idea:

- A web app or desktop app

- 2 calendar controls + 1 text box

- User enters dates in calendar controls + sum of money in Textbox

- apps then uses a serious of http post/response commands

- http cmds are sent to RyanAir web site to check for flight between

Dates which are = or < amount entered.

 

This saves user a lot of hassle and could eb automated to run between

 today’s date to a certain range thus allowing holiday makers with a

destination in mind to keep an eye out for cheap holidays in advance of time.

 

An addition an extra drop down menu could “screen scrape” the departure

location and destinations from the web site

 

This approach could be used for several other sites where prices

are dynamic.

My Brilliant Idea

When I started this blog it was originally intended
as a place to explain some of the many ingenious
ideas I have over the course of the day(see first few
posts)

Well I've gone and had another stroke of solution
designing brilliance. Here's my idea for a fruit/veg
peeler that will change the way you think about peeling
fruit/veg

The design of the device (pics to be uploaded soon)
is based on that of a pencil pairer, and therein
lies the brilliance. Basically the device is a large
pencil pairer with the ability to dynamically
change the distance between the blades as well
as tilt the blades at an angle.

This means all you have to do is line up the blades
with the fruit/veg your trying to peel give it 1 full turn
possible with a supplied handle , and it's done.

For larger restaurant operations several several
pieces could be loaded onto the handle and loaded
into the peeler one after the other .

In future version eh blades could use sensors to
align themselves with the fruit/veg. and the handle
could turn automatically. In fact the user could just
have to load a bunch of fruit/veg onto a stick attached
to the handle place it in the device and wait a couple of
seconds for perfectly peeled veg.

Awesome !!

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It's so cold !

I must be mad i i'm sitting in my car trying to convince myself to get out . Ah ! Just opened the door it's freezing ! Hot port when i get home birr

RE: The last few days

Hi all,

Had a fairly busy few days ...where to start....
Ok saturday played a Golf classic with Sean and DM
long time since i played Golf but was good fun plus i do really love
Virginia if just for the view. Saturday also gave played host to the
worst lie in the history of golf ..

Coming back to Galway sunday wth Lisa we stumbled upon the last days of the
Balenasloe Hourse show funfair COOL . now were a bit old for thta sort of thing
so we decided to give it a miss ....

Was out last night saw Fight like apes there wierd but i like them
also meet gary adn Juliea (cant spell) and Anya (realy can't spell) and Pete
(can spell pete ok) fairly good night except for my indecent proposal (nuff said)

thats all really oh going to Ireland Match tonight (traffic not withstanding)

thinking heavily about OZ these days and the new budget hasn't changed
that. 8 cent a litre ... Feck !

- Sean
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The only thing that could cheer me up ...

I failed my driving test today (balls !) I thought noting could lift my mood ... Till i saw this ! It's a metre of jafa cakes ! Omfg this lifted my spirits and suddenly life was ok again :-) . This pic was taken by mammy o'dwyer who now thinks i'm crazy

Soon my pretty's soon

Can't wait to get carving

Nature is cruel

Even the sand is mocking me !

RE: How I Feel

Laundry day, see you there, under-things .. tumbling
want to say love your hair hear I go .... mumbling
with my freeze ray i will STOP! .. the world
with my freeze ray I will find the time to find the words to...

Tell you how, how you make, make me feel
What's the phrase
like a fool, kinda sick, special needs...anywaz
with my freeze ray i will STOP! .. the pain
It's not a death ray or an ice beam that's all Johnny Snow
I just think u need time to know

That I'm the guy to make it real
the feelings you don't dare to feel
I'll bend the world to our will
and we'll make time stand still.....

SO that's the plan , rule the world,
you and me any day
Love your hair, "What ?", no I love the.. eh …air (-:
anyway, with my freeze ray I will STOP!

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My 2 cents on College fees

I'm against them for 2 reasons :


1. By introducing fees you put higher education out
out reach of the lower income families thus creting
a social divide which is destined to become wider by generation

2. As a country trying to establish itself as a skilled economy
It makes no sense to make those kills less obtainable.


= Sean

IT is funny/sad sometimes

We've all heard about ppl who work in tech support being
asked about the mythical "Any key" and broken "cup holders"

But it did make me smile to today when I found a file in a
root folder of one of the major systems where i work called
DeleteMe.txt which was empty.

Is this the height of laziness or
a cry for help from an unhappy file
that can't take this crazy world anymore.

Either way these thing do help the working day go by
so before I went on my way I renamed the file "Everything's ok"
This Ironically could break something.

Ah well I hope I cheered it up if only for a while




Cheer up little guy

Words/Phrases that should be banned

|Word/Phrase      | Unless                      

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|"Good For You" - You've just uesd the "Big boy" toliet for the first time             
|"Chillax" - Your in college and holding a beer                                                
|"odjious" - Your from cavan, someone gets an odjious thump                     
|"Firefox Rocks !" -  follwed by, but opera's the shiznit !                            
 

.. More to come

Yet another brilliant idea

I had this idea while working on something at work. Basically its a application which can monitor several sources on data (database, txt file, spread sheet etc) and field or piece information or search a large area. Conditions could be specified and finally a method of warning could be chosen.

A check (based on the conditions) can be schedule

Example :

User enters a wizard which firstly helps them to choose a dat (lets say a database)

then user chooses which table/field/number of data to monitor

then user enters conditions e.g. fieldno = 2

and finally user decide how and who should be alerted if condition are met


simple but very usefull as a way of checking  if automated task are running successfully


another dollar idea
#

-Sean