Darragh…. you don’t update this nearly enough! You need to come up with some kind of repeating feature to force yourself to update this more regularly!

Now you see the thing is, I quite like writing. That said, I don’t do it nearly enough. So with that in mind this is the concept that I have come up with. I am going to do a week in review post… well once a week obviously. Anyway it is going to be a bit of a mixed bag with regard to content. I will cover stuff that has directly affected me (in keeping with my usual personal blogs) and also some interesting news stuff from the past week. By interesting, I mean interesting to me.

Lacking direction

That heading more or less sums up this week in my head. I had a few projects on this week and for the most part, good progress was made on them all. These projects were all well defined from the previous week however so I already knew where I was going with them. Most importantly they were already designed (last week) so this week was all coding and content which I can do without a whole heap of motivation or drive.

What I really struggled with this week was creative work. Now that can be an issue for a graphic designer!! I had every intention of starting to design stock template for sale this week. Indeed I made a really good start on no less than 7 templates for websites (Wordpress). That’s the problem though. I have started 7 templates and finished zero of them!! My Documents folder contains many of these website templates in PSD form that have never made it passed that stage. Yesterday while looking for some inspiration I actually looked though a few of these to find that I have almost no memory of designing some of them. Some are almost complete and others are in the very early stages. In some ways I would be better off scrapping them entirely but it does seem a bit of a waste.

Anyway!! Im other news. I am supposed to be at a bike rally this evening in Limerick but alas due to several issues I am not. I don’t really even need to get into much more of that, sufficed to say I am not too happy about it, but it cannot be helped. So a big hello to all of the lads and ladies in the Dennis The Menace MCC.

Football (That’s soccer to you Americans)

Well as a supporter of the super Gunners, it has been  a good week. The lads followed up a good start to the season last week with an impressive 2-0 win over Glasgow Celtic in the Champions League qualifier. Then just earlier today, they added a 4-1 win over Portsmouth in the first home game of the EPL season. Happy days!! Anyway, I am just happy the football is back. Makes for another good reason to be in the pub at the weekend!

Internets!!

I have already covered the “Eircom are yellow bellied surrender monkeys” story, so I won’t go into that again!

Facebook have bought the Twitter type micro blogging service FriendFeed
This I suppose is no real surprise but it does come as a statement of intention from Facebook that they are taking Twitter very seriously indeed. Indeed they have added a twitter like search to Facebook already.

In odd tech related news, American broadcasting network CBS are to run the first ever video advertisement in a magazine Autumn.
Yes that is what I said…  they are going to run a full video advert in a printed magazine!! Here is what CNET had to say about it:

Here are some more details about the Americhip technology: the screen, which is 2.7 millimeters thick, has a 320×240 resolution. The battery lasts for about 65 to 70 minutes, and can be recharged, believe it or not, with a mini USB cord–there’s a jack on the back of it. The screen, which uses thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) technology, is enforced by protective polycarbonate. It’s a product that has been in development at Americhip for about two years, spokesman Tim Clegg told CNET News via e-mail

It’s all a bit Harry Potter no? Newspapers with moving pictures and what not?

Ireland

There are a few Irish related stories floating about this week. So in an unformatted link laden paragraph, here goes!! It appears that despite our current recession, Irish workers are still amongst the best paid in the world. In other job and work related news UPS have announced they will be letting 200 staff in Tallaght go. Never a good thing to hear.  The Virginia show of course was on this week. A painful event for me, living in Virginia. As one of those blow in Dubs I will probably never see the attraction in spray painting the black bits on cows or looking at old tractors. I know, I know it’s all our heritage and stuff. But to be honest…… I really, really, really don’t care!

Bikes

This section of the weekly review will most certainly be a regular feature. So this week there is no MotoGP, no World SBK and no BSB. Last weekend of course saw Lorenzo crash (again) and gift yet another race victory to Rossi. It must be said that it appears young Jorge is starting to feel the pressure that many before him have felt in the past. It is nice to see him put it up to Rossi on the pace from but he is still lacking the consistency to run Rossi down to the wire in the championship.

Last weekend also saw the Ulster GP which threw up some excellent racing as always. Next week when I am covering the bike news I will try to be a little more detailed and add some photos from some of my favourite photographers. With their permission of course

So although the big boys are taking a break this weekend, there is still a lot of racing on offer. There is clubmans racing from Bishopscourt and the Manx Grand Prix.

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