After almost two months in hospital fighting various infections, George Best died this afternoon in London’s Cromwell Hospital. To anyone who enjoyed football he was a class act and one of a kind. Obviously, I never got to see him play in person but the footage I’ve seen on television showed just how much skill he had with a ball. All geniuses have a flaw and unfortunately George’s affinity for alcohol led to a lot of bad press and ultimately cost him his life. RIP.
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For your amusement:
- Mario Unleashed: Four high school students replay the Mario theme tunes on the marimba.
- American Edit: A guy has remixed Green Day’s American Idiot with a lot of other tracks and produced this album. I’ve only listened to one of the songs, Dr. Who on Holiday, but it’s fantastic.
- I reckon I should be using passwords like this but I can’t imagine having to learn ones that long. 😯
- Want to move the tabs in Firefox? Now you can!
- Some great entries in the “Everyday objects as boats photoshopping contest“.
- The Fatal Consequences of Masturbation: a cautionary, illustrated HOW(not)TO from a mid-19th-century French book with no name. In the words of Father Ted, “careful now”.
- Superman Returns teaser trailer: I’m a bit late on that one as it was released last week. I’ve been keeping up with Bryan Singer’s production diaries and it’s nice to get that type of insight as the film is being made.
Last Thursday was the 2005 Net Visionary Awards in Clontarf Castle. My boss was nominated in the eGovernment category for our site dublin.ie Unfortunately he didn’t win but we did have a great night out. I got to meet a couple of people who I’ve only talked to on the phone so it was nice. Michele runs down the winners in this post. Next year I’d like to win one of them as the new site will be live by then. It’s a tough job though as the competition is excellent.
This is one of those catch all posts cos I’m struggling to be coherant today. Still have yet to shift this cold/flu that I have. One thing you do notice though is the amount of people who have it. I’m convinced I can spread the virus by phone after Mark got sick just by talking to me.
BTW, the title of this post is inspired by the shots taken by sam javanrouh at an open air pillowfight in Toronto. Looks like fantastic fun. 🙂
In blogosphere news, Google Analytics has been launched. Anyone who knew that Google acquired webstats firm, Urchin, a few months ago would have anticipated this but it appears as if they jumped the gun on the launch. For the first few hours the site would go down/stop logins for hours and it’s still “waiting” to process data from this site. I used the Google Analyticator plugin mentioned by Conall to do it automatically. I’ve got dublin.ie plugged into it too as we bought an Urchin 5 license before Google bought them. I’ll report further when I know what it’s like.
I completely agree with Brian O’Neill about Web 2.0 and what the user wants. I’ll elaborate further again but I wanted to add my support to his comments.
Splashed out on a few DVDs and CDs today:
- Titanic Deluxe Collector’s Edition: I’ve always been fascinated with Titanic and the film, although soppy and girly in parts was very good overall. This 4 disc set has extras in abundance and I’ll look forward to viewing them all over the next few weeks.
- Des Bishop Live: I’m a big fan of Des’ comedy and this DVD features his show from Vicar St last year along with extras such as an early stand-up routine and his Late Late Show Appearance.
- The Revs: Based on positive reviews I’ve been reading I decided to buy the new album from this Irish rock band. They’ve been around a while but this album is supposed to be the making of them.
- Gift Grub 6 – The Special One: Although I don’t listen to the radio in the morning, I love Mario Rosenstock’s impressions of celebrities in the Gift Grub segment on Ian Dempsey’s Breakfast Show. There’s a few samples on their site too. This CD is the best of 2005 and his impression of Jose Mourinho is fantastic.
The title of this post is meant to indicate two things. Firstly it’s that I have a nasty cold on me at the moment. Haven’t been well since Wednesday and it’s not responding to the whole Beecham’s Hot Blackcurrant assault I’ve been using. It seems that a lot of people are unwell of late. That sentence brings me to the second point in that the weather has taken a turn over the past couple of days. I noticied it last night when we went for a few pints after work and, even though I haven’t been out today, supposedly it’s quite cold again. Looks like the winter is really setting in.
In football news, the kids game for tomorrow morning has been called off. This is the second time in as many weeks and, although we can’t do anything about the weather, I know the lads will be getting despondent about the whole situation.
Otherwise things are good. I’ve re-partitioned one of the drives to allow for better storage and I’m now going to inspect the innards of my machine to get the front USB ports working. What an exciting life I lead. 😉