Old Rope Old rope tied to a rusty old screw embedded in weather beaten mortar at Church Bay near Crosshaven. I used to dive off this rock about 10 years ago, mind you the tide was in whenever I did!

West Cork Landscape The beautiful countryside north-east of Dunmanway in West Cork.

The Web 2.0 Conference Cork Welcome Shel Israel Blog Hype Shel Israel Salim Ismail Joe Blogging Tom Raftery welcomes everyone to the Web 2.0 Conference in the Radisson SAS Hotel in Little Island yesterday. I’ll post a few more shots later tonight and update this post. From left to right: Shel, Walter, Rob, Fergus (behind…

Web 2.0 pre-conference dinner Tom Raftery Salim Ismail and Tom Raftery Salim Ismail and Britt Blaser Shel Israel and his wife Britt and his wife Tamara A group of about 20 bloggers, techs, and generally smart and nice people gathered in Probys Bistro last night before the Web 2.0 Conference today. Pictured, in no particular…

Bovine bodyguard Three cattle watch as we passed their field. “Is that a bull on the left?” says the city boy.

06-06-06 Today is the 6th day of the 6th month of the 6th year or 06-06-06. People worry about the date’s similarity to 666, “the number of the beast”. Did you do or not do anything today because of the date? Here’s some more trivia about this once in a century day.

Mr. Ed Well, maybe he doesn’t talk, but this horse sure eats a lot!

Relaxing on Panna Young and old women relax on St. Patrick Street in the glorious sunshine about a month ago.

Smoke Over Cork City Smoke Over Cork City A long trail of smoke was visible over Cork City and surrounding countryside this evening as a fire raged in the scrap metal yard in Dublin Hill. Jacinta and I had been down in Monkstown at her sister’s house where we enjoyed a great bbq cooked by…

Press the button A doorbell on a building on the seafront in Cobh. I can’t remember which building exactly but it was down in the direction of the train station. It’s scorchio in Ireland now and it’s great! We adopted Oscar yesterday and the poor dog was upset last night until we brought him for…

An Modh Scoil This is the Small Claims Court in Cork. If you have a grievance about a product or service you can bring a case against the provider here for around 15 Euro. In a past life it was also a primary school. I went to school here in the early 80’s when it…

Wet Cobbles Wet cobblestones leading into the harbour at Cobh.