Category: General

Via Neil who got it from HicksDesign:

Total volume of music files on my computer: 24.2Gb. Man, I didn’t think I had that much music!

The last CD I bought was: Ocean’s 12 OST. I believe the film is pretty bad but the music is excellent and was put together by David Holmes.

Song playing right now: “Feel Good Inc” by Gorillaz. Like the way it fuses a couple of different styles together. Must pick up their album.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

1. Acker Bilk – Stranger on the Shore: It was one of my uncle’s favourite songs until he died. Always reminds me of him.
2. The Beach Boys – God Only Knows: One of the best pop songs in history.
3. The Eagles – Desperado: Fantastic tune and one which I’ll probably never forget.
4. John Mayer – St. Patrick’s Day: Big fan of John Mayer’s songs and this is one of the best.
5. Coldplay – Parachutes: The title track from their debut album is just 46 seconds long but strikes a note with me every time I hear it.

Haven’t been well at all this week. 🙁 Have had a cold circulating me for the past few weeks and it eventually arrived on Monday evening. Was off work since Tuesday and only went in today to get a few bits done and left early. Starting to get cabin fever here though so I’m hoping to get over to Paddy’s place tomorrow for a day getting reaquainted with the Star Wars saga. We’ve our tickets booked for Thursday evening at 7 so we should be fully up to date by then. 😉

When I got into work there were two packages I had ordered from the States. They’re both books from SitePoint, one being the Search Engine Marketing Kit and the other, Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET. I bought them for work as I thought we needed to get up to speed on how to improve our positioning in Google plus our new CMS will be built in VB.NET. Will post reviews when I’ve read the guts of them.

Have also been waiting on a couple of things in the mail.

• I also have a t-shirt due in from Dave over at Blogography, he posted it a few days ago now so I suspect I should have it by early next week. He has some really cool t-shirts in his Artificial Duck store so you should go check them out. 🙂
• A copy of Michael J. Fox’s book, Lucky Man, which I heard excellent reviews of and never got round to ordering. Picked it up on Play.com for like €10.
• A copy of Guitar for Dummies which should come in handy considering I know next to nothing about them and I don’t wanna let my new one gather dust.

So here’s to a weekend of shaking off this cold. *SNEEZES*

Well last night I had my birthday bash in town at the Long Stone pub just off Pearse Street. Lots of people turned up so I was very impressed and had a fantastic night. After we left the Long Stone we went to Wexford Street where the plan was to hit Whelans but we got the “regulars only” line from the bouncers so we scooted in the Palace instead. It was free in and the place was kicking so we spent the next two hours dancing. I have to say, the DJ played the best set I’ve heard in about a year and a half. 🙂 Every song was well timed and kept the dancefloor packed to capacity.

The NiteLink home (bus home) was one of the funniest bus journeys I’ve ever had. One guy sitting across from us was singing mad tunes all the way to Chapelizoid where he got off. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the whole upper deck of a bus sing “I ain’t afraid of no ghost”. 😆 Today being my actual birthday, I’m taking it easy and chilling out. I got a guitar from my parents and “The House of Flying Daggers” DVD off my brother.

UPDATE: Pics have been posted in the gallery.