Anthony McG

This is incredible and weird…

anthony — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:48:58 +0000

… all at the same time:

Friday Photo – F1 returns

anthony — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:17:48 +0000

The 2010 F1 season kicks off this weekend in Bahrain. I took this shot on my trip to the Italian GP last year. Hopefully it’ll be a good one:

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I Will Possess Your Heart

anthony — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:35:19 +0000

Have been listening to Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs for the past few days. This is probably my favourite track off the album, I Will Possess Your Heart:

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One Hundred

anthony — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:21:17 +0000

All eyes will be on Croker this weekend as Ireland face Wales in the Six Nations. To mark the occasion, adidas have made special boots (close up) for Ireland’s captain, Brian O’Driscoll who makes his 100th appearance. He follows John Hayes in hitting the century this season who got his in the win over England. Brian is the top try scorer for Ireland with 38 and hopefully he’ll add a couple more on Saturday with these on em. You can follow his updates on Twitter @brianodriscoll (where he confirmed it was actually him when I asked) and his web site is here. Congrats on the century Brian.

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Wordcamp Ireland 2010

anthony — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:53:58 +0000

Last weekend I took the trip down to Kilkenny for the inaugural Wordcamp Ireland organised by Sabrina Dent and Katherine Nolan. I’ve been using WordPress since its inception but I’ve never really dug under the hood so it was great to hear some quality speakers talking about how they use the platform. The weekend started on Friday with our team (myself, @yoast and @AMcDermott) winning the Chaos Thaoighaire event in Langton’s. I can only describe it as one of the most random things I’ve ever attended and would heartily recommend you check out their site and go to one. I’ll definitely be at the next one in Dublin.

Throughout the weekend I spent most of my time in the ‘tech’ track and particularly enjoyed Joost de Valk’s talk on 40 SEO tips. The guy really knows his stuff and it was great to pick up practical references and resources. Other highlights for me included: Jane Wells‘ talk on WordPress 3 (there’s some really cool stuff coming), Eddie Johnston’s overview of frameworks and Thematic in particular, Andrea Trasatti’s tips around handling mobile users and Garrett Coakley’s closing showcase of beautiful WP sites. The venue was great, the talks were informative, the people were friendly and overall I had a fantastic weekend. Now I just need to follow up on all the notes I made. There’ll be videos from some of the talks up on WordPress TV in the next week so. Here’s to WordCamp 2012.

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Friday Photo – CODES

anthony — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:03:31 +0000

Went along to see CODES headline at the Academy last week. Have to say they were fantastic live with great energy and smashing songs. Shades of Muse about them and I’d definitely recommend picking up their debut album ‘Trees Dream in Algebra‘ (iTunes link).

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I like New York in June, how about you?

anthony — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:18:40 +0000

Saw the Fisher King again last week in the IFI for Jeff Bridges season. This is one of my favourite bits from the film and it’s the ending so if you haven’t seen it, you may not want to watch:

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Ted’s Birthday

anthony — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:37:35 +0000

The latest video from the Improv Everywhere guys is hilarious. They basically ambush some guy in a bar and make him Ted, the birthday boy. The amount of prep these guys put into missions is insane and you can read how they did it on the blog post here.

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Friday Photo – Let’s get the band back together

anthony — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:44:45 +0000

Taken last year at Kev & Oana’s wedding in Romania. Think it shows just how much fun was had.

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Great Morgan Freeman Impression

anthony — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:28:18 +0000

Ya gotta wait it but it’s really, really good.