Jamie’s Weblog

Here are a few things that have particularly annoyed me since Norah was born: Baby monitors. Seriously, most people don’t own houses big enough or well-built enough that they can’t hear their baby crying. And even in circumstances where a monitor might be required, there is no justification for the “parent talkback” system. Seriously, you’re [...]

This is not supposed to be some blog-craze-meme, just something I thought about the other day.  My Dessert Island Foods would be: Meat: Fillet Steak Veg: Sweet Potatoes Drink: Pink Grapefruit Juice Dessert: Divine Dark Chocolate

So, I’m 30 today. What’s different from 5 years ago? I’m married I live in Cork, not Dublin I rent a house not an apartment I am on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder, rather than being at least one step up I earn roughly the same I’m fatter and not any fitter I [...]

Due to the miserable weather, we saw both the Harry Potter and Transformers films this weekend. I was kinda disappointed with the Potter film: it seems like you need to have read the books to enjoy the films. There are just too many characters, with similar names, and huge past histories to make the film [...]

The Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind association runs a competition each year for doggy-related photos to include in their calendar. After much cajoling by my wife and mother (sometimes it’s a mixed blessing that they get on so well), I submitted three entries. Today I got a very polite letter informing me that one [...]

Myself and Hilary went to see Aerosmith in Marley Park on Tuesday night.  The concert was pretty good but not enough of the older stuff for my liking.  Still, it did give us the excuse to spend 2 days in Dublin shopping and revisiting our old haunts: Books in Hodges Figgis, of course!  €100 in [...]

Airline miles, that is. Myself and Hilary are planning a holiday to Tobago and since she’s been racking up the BA airmiles (57,000 at the last count) we thought we’d treat ourselves to an upgrade. Except that… you can’t upgrade a ticket booked through an agent you can’t upgrade at check-in you can’t get through [...]

Without a great deal of fore-thought, I’ve changed this blog from Blogger to an installation of WordPress. Basically I wanted an easy way to syntax-highlight code and I was getting bored of the look & feel which had evolved over the past ~3 years. The site has a new theme which I’m still updating (particularly [...]

Today we entered the ranks of the BBQ-owning suburbanites. Hilary has long wanted to dine ‘al-fresco’ and basically her life plans for us boiled down to: move to Ireland; get a job for me; rent a house; buy a BBQ. Anyway, we bought a cheap gas barbecue this evening and I succeeded in assembling it [...]

No, I haven’t got bought a macro lens for the camera (yet!) but if you want to keep up with the trivial, meaningless and generally uninteresting aspects of my life, you can now find them here on Twitter. These updates are mirrored on the top-right of this blog in the “recently jamie was…” section. This [...]