The Blog of G

Barcamp Dublin kicks off tomorrow morning with registrations at 9.15am, in The Digital Exchange on Crane street. My previous Barcamp visits (Cork & Waterford) were eye opening affairs. There is so much going on in Irish Tech circles that I would never have heard about, blogs I wouldn’t have discovered and people I would not have met if it were not for Barcamp, if you have any interest in the Technology sector Barcamp is a great way to explore it. So be there or be a shape with 4 equal length sides and 90 degree corners

If your looking for more info and how to sign up, check out the Barcamp Dublin Wiki and Blog

Tonight I did a little bit of a clean and a dust, around my blog. So far I’ve discovered, thanks to a recent flurry of new links here (from other blogs), Technorati have me ranked in the top million bloggers! I’m stunned that this could have happened. With my blogs technical issues and ever changing themes I sometimes think people are just stopping in to watch the train wreck that is my blog, if you know what I mean. I guess Grannymar’s nominations to the Irish Blog Awards and interaction with Grandad and Granny has had a ripple effect.

I have finally fixed my analytics issue’s, but some how lost the sidebars off the front page. They seem to be on most other pages? go figure. I’ll have to accost one of my co-workers and seek some sagely advice tomorrow.

My Akismet Plugin tells me that it’s captured 2,999 spam comments, Fantastic! Recently though, I had a spate of spam trackbracks thankfully though that seems to have stopped. Have any other WordPress users had this problem, I wonder?

Last night was a blast, catching up with people that I hadn’t seen in a while, people I knew but had never met, Bloggers I have read but never met and even making some new friends.

I think it’s fair to say all who attended had a great evening, so without further ado it’s time to share the link love. First up the results from the Irish Blog awards blog.

Unfortunately, Grannymar came away empty handed although, Twenty’s post today gave her a big grin and a link so I think that made up for it. Both her and Ellybabes managed to meet Twenty himself. I managed to miss the opportunity and held a reverent distance, partly because I was worried I might get a beatin’ but mostly cause I enjoy his blog and thought that maybe speaking with him might in some way might shatter that illusion. If you have any idea at all what I mean by that.

The other thing I would like to mention, and I know loads of people have already blogged this today, but it deserves the attention. Bernie Goldbach won ‘The best Contribution to the irish blogosphere’ And without a second thought thanked everyone, but refused to accept it as it should have been awarded to Damien. Cue the first of two, very deserved, standing ovations for Damien Mulley during the evening. My hats off to you Bernie, not everyone would do the same in your position.

My thanks to the organisers for a great evening and I’m looking forward to next years event already, who knows there could be a horrific blogging related incident that wipes out all the good bloggers so the likes of me has a chance.

Yes, I’m off to The Irish Blog awards tonight, I was thinking that this would be a reasonably casual affair. Boy was I wrong! My Sweetie (Ellybabes) and her Mum (Grannymar, nominated in the Best Podacst and Best podcaster categories) have invaded and taken over the Kitchen.

They could be preparing for war, for all I know. The warpaint is out, there seems to be a lot of discussion and debate over God only knows what and it’s only 2pm!!! the awards aren’t kicking off for another 4 hours, this is serious preparation.

Me, I’ll pop off in a while for the 3 S’s (2 of them are shower and shave, the third, well, I’ll leave you guessing) Pull on some pants and a shirt hell I might even go the whole hog and splash on some aftershave seeing as how it’s a formal occasion :p

That’s what I love about being a bloke, Preparing to go out is soooo much easier.

Anyways, If your heading along then I’ll see you there, if not, come back tomorrow and I’ll hopefully have a report on all the important thing’s that happen this evening.

Good luck Grannymar

Well Elly’s presentation just ended and despite getting the award for longest overrun of the day, I thought it was fabulous, yea I’m biased but no one left for the whole thing (that I noticed anyway) and there was a large round of applause. So congratulations sweetie.

For those that weren’t here I will be uploading a movie to youtube once I work out how to do that, I’ll place a link here once I have done that. I wasn’t the only one recording it either, Donncha was using his macbook to record as well. So I’ll link to his as well once it’s available.

A large part of Elly’s presentation was to do with a particular blog and Audiocast this one. Elly will also be posting her presentation later so I will link that as well.

Once again, congratulations sweetie

*update* You tube didn’t like the length of the video so Elly uploaded to blipTV instead. the movie below starts the presentation and Dooncha’s recording (see link above) follows on from where I ran out of memory on my camera (sounds like an excuse for bigger memory cards )