Missed a dart by about 10 seconds – argh! 12 minutes til the next, would have been home by then but not bad for the time of night I guess
back to college today after a few weeks travel and mid-term break – will be weird, and no doubt I will have assignments – boooo!
Can’t beat Wigan? Deservedly beaten by them too if the reports are accurate – another bad day in a bad season 
Thanks to @StephenFry and his .net interview I now have blog/twitter integration via twitter tools – should have thought of that!
While this site may not be my main outlet for ranting and rambling or even status updates at this point, it used to have a semi-decent page rank, so I’ll use it to let people know about a worthy cause/quest undertaken by a friend of mine, Reed. Reed lives in Washington DC and after becoming unemployed for the first time in his life (something I will have to deal with myself soon enough), he decided to give away $10 a day every day for a year to people and record it all while he did it. I doubt my post-employment activities will be anywhere near as noble.
He’s been at it for 80+ days at this point and there are some great stories in there – keep up the good work Reed 
You can find it at:
Technorati Tags: Charity, Year of Giving, Reed, dcist, Washington DC
Well, it’s the end of an era – Facebook, Twitter and Flickr have completely sated my need to publish things to the web. I may come back and resurrect the blog at some point, or I may try something completely different but it seems certain given my infrequent updates that the blog will be neglected for the foreseeable future, unless something changes drastically.
Speaking of which, my Aol. days are now drawing to a close. I have chosen to accept the voluntary package and move on from what is my first real job. I started at AOL when I was 19 years old and it’s with a mixture of sadness, fear and excitement that I leave that company over 11 years later having made great friends in several countries and learned an enormous amount. Linked In can point you in the right direction regarding my qualification sif you are looking for someone with extensive experience in everything from dial up connectivity to web operations and Linux system administration.
Oh, and in reference to the post below, I caved and bought the iPhone. However O2 left such a nasty taste in my mouth that I will likely switch providers as soon as I can out of principle, so I didn’t cave really, right?
So, I bid adieu to the US office Friday (*sniff*) – was a bit sad to pack everything up and clear out my office, but now comes the hard part – I have to sell everything we are not taking home. The sofa, coffee table, patio furniture and, of course, the car all have to go.
Rather than doing that of course I procrastinated and did other things instead, like upload the inaugural photos and videos I took, and wrote this post
It has been quite a few months since I posted last and there has been plenty going on. The lask of updates was partly due to crazy work load and partly due to a gag order on blogging about the fact that I have to return to Ireland by March. Until all the appropriate people knew that we were going home, we didn’t want them to find out via a blog.
In any case, it is official – Jen and I are heading back to the Emerald Isle by March 1st 2009 at the latest. Sad news, but there is nothing to be done about it – apparently I am not educated enough to get a green card and so off I go. On the bright side, I do get to keep my job – I just have to do it from 3,000 miles away.
We’ll be celebrating our last Thanksgiving with Scott and Lori in Scott’s place tomorrow (thanks for the invite Scott, and the cooking Lori!) which will be excellent. We’ll also be around for the inauguration and will have had at least a small part of our stay under someone other than George W. Bush as president (and in a Blue Virginia!) for which I am very grateful to the electorate.
Last but not least are the pictures (on Flickr as usual). We’ve been quite busy as you can see, in something approaching chronological order we have:
Redskins Vs Cleveland with Matt & TK
Hopefully it won’t be as long a gap too my next post, but I think if anything it will just get busier in the near future with the move prep….
Since I ended up working from home today I was able to meet Jen in DC at a reasonable hour and so we went in to check out the new Kogod Courtyard in DC. It is quite impressive – I can’t wait to see that roof when it snows
Here’s one with some nice lighting and (conveniently), the name of the place (click for full size):
As usual, the full set can be found on Flickr.
Technorati Tags: Kogod Courtyard, Washington DC
It has been a busy week and it is a long way from over. We started out with the arrival of Matt and Ruth on Friday morning, threw a barbecue at our place on Saturday after we got back from the National Museum of Health and Medicine (very cool – though a bit tricky to get to), then hit Dog the Bounty Hunter (funny as hell) at the Lisner auditorium on Monday night (with associated drinking in Froggy Bottom and Galaxy Hut). I like this pic (courtesy of Brian) from the museum, plus it’s a good action shot of my “Google is Ruining Everything” SGR t-shirt:
Jen flies back to Ireland today for a quick visit now that Aer Lingus is doing Dulles to Dublin direct, and Matt is also going back to Seattle having successfully launched the new version of Summize (and probably ruined his liver) – so go check that out, it’s pretty cool (and yes, there is a color blind option). Then I have a Nats game on Thursday, an XBox 360 Elite on its way and last but not least picked up my share of a set of Redskins seasons tickets, so all in all a busy week
Technorati Tags: Redskins, Washington DC, brains, SGR, Galaxy Hut, Summize, Froggy Bottom, Dog the Bounty Hunter, museum of health and medicine
