Archive for August, 2005

Zany Zeitgeist

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

It’s interesting to pop by the Google zeitgeist occasionally, which shows top 10 lists of what people are googling for all over the world.
On Google Ireland this July, Liverpool were more popular than Man Utd and Nina bridal shoes (whatever they are) were on many people’s minds.
It is refreshing to know that even the geniuses [...]

towers taking over

Monday, August 29th, 2005

it’s funny the ways in which you can waste hours at a time on the internet without anything to show for it.
one of the best examples of this is gaming, particularly those silly little online games that are not even decent games. you know, like those quick little flash games that waste many an [...]

Yahoo! knows where I live

Sunday, August 28th, 2005

I came across something interesting the other day while looking at my referrer logs.
Several visitors had reached me after searching at Yahoo! for quite generic phrases like freecycle, janine and cross stitch. On clicking through to the Yahoo! results pages, I saw that the searches had been made at Yahoo! UK and Ireland with the [...]

Superstitious

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Caoimhe tagged me to do this quiz. I’ve never been nominated before and I don’t know what the repercussions are if I don’t co-operate, but I’m too superstitious not to play along! I think this is Caoimhe getting her revenge after I dared to diss the Rose of Tralee Here goes…
Seven Things I [...]