The Weekend

Had another very busy weekend. I'll be a little happier when Christmas is done. Hopefully things will calm down a bit.

Saturday afternoon we took Tasha's little cousin, Shannan, to Christmas on Ice in the RDS. She had a good run around and went to see Santa.

Then we had dinner in the evening with a few of Tasha's friends. It was in a very nice Italian restaurant in Stillorgan. Had a good few glasses of wine to start the night off :P

Tasha's friends headed off to a "normal" club, Tasha got a taxi home and I went to Dominion. Thought I'd be ready to fall asleep at that stage but I still managed to get even more inebriated and carried on like fool with Marita and Orla. Sorry ladies, will be good from now on.

Whitby Nov 2005

Tasha's already booked our accommodation for Whitby next year. Anyone who goes there will agree, you have to book well in advance.

The past two times we've stayed at Ashford Guest House on the Crescent. They were great; courteous, friendly and appreciative of our cleanliness.

However, this year we'll be heading over with at least one other person, ickle_tayto. This'll be more fun and we will rent a car for day trips, shopping, etc.

As a result, we've booked the Jet Apartment. It looks like a very nice place to stay and the owners were quick to reply.

If anyone has any feedback on the Jet Apartment, let me know.

TTFN

Weekend

Had a great weekend. The New Model Army gig was great if a little short. Lots of unrelenting moshing and a bit of Bush bashing. Only got a few photos on 35mm so they'll take a while to surface until the roll is finished.

Dominion seemed better that usual too. Good music and some new people.

Still playing through Half-Life 2 again. Came across a in-depth look at the history/story of Half-Life at http://hlstory.fragfiles.org/. Well worth a read for any keen HL fan.

New Book

Got a great book over the weekend based on the art and concepts of Half Life 2.

It's called Raising The Bar and explores the characters, creatures, level design, etc.

The stills really put across the level of detail in the game which you miss when you're playing

I think I'll be playing HL2 again soon. This time on a harder setting.

Good Things...

For the techie minded amoung you out there, I found out some good news today.

I use a plugin called NewsGator to download my friends' LiveJournals and other RSS feeds straight into Microsoft Outlook. It works well because it's so seamless.

Another good feature of the plugin was that it allowed you to download USENET newsgroups. Unfortunately, this was blocked in work because it requires a server.

BUT...

The good news I found out is that the new Google Groups 2 offers it's newsgroups as an Atom XML feed. So now I can relay them straight into Outlook.

Yay!

Whitby Photos

Ta daaaa

Weeks later, lazy John has finally uploaded his Whitby photos.

Some diligent people had there's online the day after but I'm not that sort of guy.

These are the direct likes to each gallery

Zodiac Mindwarp http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060656
Torsohorse http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060656
Claytown Troupe http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060639
Beautiful Deadly Children http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060632
Corrosion http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060612
The Last Dance http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060608
Manuskript http://www.photobox.ie/album/1060565

Still have to upload the Alien Sex Fiend photos (100 of them)