Broken Blog Cake.
Brokeblog Mountain.
Whatever, it’s broken.
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 broke the blog. Some quick thinking fixed it a bit but it still doesn’t work with the theme I designed for it, so I’m using the pretty deadly-looking 5ThirtyOne v2 for the moment. It isn’t a perfect fit, but I’ve been working on a site redesign for a couple of weeks already and it should be ready soon, so I’ll be sticking with this until then.
For all the people arriving here while searching for Gran Casino (after they won the UCD Battle of the Bands last night and were interviewed on Phantom FM this morning), here’s them playing the UCD B&L (Business & Legal) Ball last month.
As usual, there’s more after the jump and on flickr.
If you’re new here you’ll have missed the previous Gran Casino-related posts here, here and here.
Green Ink tagged me to do the most worthwhile meme I’ve seen. The idea is to promote the charities and help their search engine PageRank. You list all the charities so far, add some more and pass it on.
The existing ones:
I’m adding:
Special Olympics Ireland - Providing year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sport for children and adults with a learning disability
Canteen Ireland - nation-wide support group for young people who have or have had cancer, and for their families and friends.
Camara - sending recycled computers to African schools and providing technology training and computer learning materials to teachers there.
RNLI Lifeboats - provides a 24-hour lifesaving service at sea and on the coast around the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Scouting Ireland - The official line: The aim of Scouting Ireland is to encourage the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual development of young people so that they may achieve their full potential and, as responsible citizens, to improve society.
In my words: The organisation that provides amazing experiences, education and personal development in extremely broad fields to almost 35,000 people in Ireland.
The best way to support Scouting financially (aside from getting actively involved) is supporting your local groups’ fundraising, rather than the national Association
And to pass it on, I think I’ll target:
caitriona
Treasa (again)
gingerpixel
Caitriona says I have to do this meme thing.
the rules:
Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post these rules.
At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.
Don’t forget to leave them a comment and tell them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
So, to pass the torch to 8 bloggers selected from my sidebar:
Blogopho.be, FeckOff.net, snapper, red mum, Green Ink, Treasa, DjMagra and Robin
Some (very expensive, I’d wager) lawyers don’t want you to see the above number.
After receiving a “Cease and Desist” from the MPAA, Digg removed some posts containing this number. Some peeved Diggers reposted and dugg the number repeatedly until Digg founder Kevin Rose declared:
After seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.
If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying.
I can digg it
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Amazing Stuff:
Steorn has announced the rather-ominous-sounding date of Friday the 13th as the date it will reveal the next set of rather vague details about Orbo, their self-proclaimed free energy solution.
I couldn’t resist raiding the now-static (sob) TCAL archives for the following image:
What have Miller and shagging in a canoe got in common?
They’re both fucking close to water!
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