I’ve heavily underdeveloped it but then thats mostly been my attitude to blogging for a while now.

So I give you my new blog http://www.jameslarkin.ie a site where I’m going to try and do a post or two a week at least.

Here they are .. prices I’ll have to check online (and I’d also prefer to be able to meet up next week in dublin city center for hand over)
(meant to sort this out this week but I’ve been pretty sick all week)

Box Sets / Seasons
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Alias Season 1
Alley McBeal
Family Guy Season 1
Family Guy Season 2
Forever Knight
Matrix Trilogy (box set)
Smallville season 1
The 10th Kingdom
X files season 1
XXX (movies 1 and 2 in box set)

FILMS
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Alien
Bean
Blade
Cypher
Jade
Dangerous Liason
Dante’s Peak
Donnie Darko
Girl Interrupted
Face/Off
Faculty (The)
Fight Club
Final Destination
Gladiator
Hudson Hawk
Human Traffic
Idle Hands
Independence Day
Joan Of Arc
Lethal Weapon 1
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (directors cut)
Lost In Space
Mars Attacks
Man On Fire
Meet Joe Black
Memento
MIB Men In Black
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible II
One Night at McCools
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Romeo Must Die
Spider Man 2
Taxi III
Terminator (The)
Terminator II ( Limited black tin editon)
The Big Lebowski
The Bone Collector
The Postman
The Princess Bride
U-571
X-MEN 1
Minority Report (may be in french)

GONE

Angel Season 1
Battlestar Galactica Season 1 (Original series)
Buck Rogers in the 25 century season 1
Highlander
Love Actually
Police Story
The Crow
The Very Best of The Muppet Show
The World Is Not Enough
X-MEN 1.5
X-MEN 2
Trainspotting
The West Wing Season 1
The West Wing Season 2
24 Season 2
24 Season 4
Scrubs Season 1
Scrubs Season 2
Six Feet Under Season 1

GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY .. you’re going to be spending vast quantities of money buying hardware

I saw a post over on boards … then Michele pointed me at one of his posts over on his blog

Amazon removes delivery restrictions to Ireland

I really should read more blog posts from people but these days I only seem to read what I see is linked to from twitter

I for my part gave a brief intro to CSS frameworks and there were even a few questions for me at the end so hopefully there was some interest in the topic though it may have been a bit too web related for peoples liking I’m still unsure.

If there is any interest I’ll upload the presentation and the few demo files I went though basically how to make the layout for the OSS Barcamp website with the BluePrint CSS Framework)

Unfortunately I arrived in a few minutes late (breakfast roll and a can of red bull were required which may have delayed me a few minutes).
I therefore missed Laura’s intro talk. Laura being one of the organisers along with Jaime. I was the one mainly responsible for the website and making it look all purty (the website guy)

I ended up attending most of Luis de Bethencourt intro talk followed this by meeting up with Will Knott going for coffee which was kindly sponsored by DIT Kevin Street. Then it was onto Jaime’s talk on GIT. Which I found pretty interesting. GIT is a version control system (one could say similar to SubVersion and CVS) which is rather quick to get up and running and seems to be a lot more “1 single developer friendly” in that you can get up and running without the need for a server. Though obviously you can set it up on a server as well. Branching seems to work nicely as well and its probably going to be something I’ll play with over the next while. (Though maybe I’ll end up going towards Bazaar which a few more people have mentioned to me)

Skipping out of the end of that talk it was down to get prepared for mine *gulps* …

I don’t do public speaking but if I did … it’d probably end up something like the one I gave. May have ended up rushing through it a bit. The last time I gave a presentation was in 1996 (a 4 or 5 customer presentation doesn’t really count) There must have been around 60 – 80 people in the room so it was quite nerve wrecking for me Did I mention most of the morning talks were also been videoed as well. So somewhere there is probably a video of me floating around … nervous … hungover (Met up with a number of people / speakers the night before and stayed a bit too late) .. and speeding through the presentation. No one pulled me up on using powerpoint for an Open Source day PHEW … (Impress just didn’t seem to work for me I’ve only put together a few presentations in the last 10 years and starting the presentation the day before and trying to get up to speed with Impress was a bit of overkill for me … though it’d have done what I wanted I just couldn’t figure out a few bits .. custom colours and so on)

Next presentation up was from Fintan Boyle and that I found extremely interesting. Took us through a small demo of putting together a gallery loading an XML file … giving a select box … and performing some styling. Great stuff though I’ve forgotten it all now.

Then it was onto Maciej Danielski and his intro to what they are at in Ubuntu Ireland – LoCo .. and the meetups and so on they’ve been organising.

Finally the madness started and TOG gave their presentation on setting up a hackerspace … its still in the early stages but I think their idea is pretty cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgbCrdIDMgM

Then it was time for lunch which I believe was again sponsored by DIT ? .. the girls went of for their lunch for the Girl Geek Day Event that was running alongside the OSS Bar Camp. Microsoft was kindly sponsoring that one

After lunch I have to admit I was torn which talk to go for given “Andrea Magnorsky – An Introduction to Monorail and the Castle Project” was of some interest to me to see what it was all about … though my only concern going to it was I’m not a .net head. Talks running along side this were Jennifer’s “Bring Out The Gimp” an introduction to using Gimp an open source image editing software (though I believe her talk was plagued by some technical difficulties with her graphics tablet and setting it all up) and “Stuart Langridge – Advanced Javascript” I got in for the end of Stuarts talk and I have to say it was excellent the bits I saw.

Next up I ended up sticking around for the PHC talk by Paul Biggar .. the majority was over my head I’d been hoping for more of a hands on type talk on speeding up php rather than the problems they face. Still it was quite interesting. After this a number of us decided it was time to get a liquid lunch so it was over to Shine with Keith and Niall from blacknight hosting.

Echo Libre one of the sponsors for the event graciously sponsored a few drinks and from then on the day progressed rather nicely with good talks with a lot of people not to mention me demoing some other open source applications that I use CMS Made Simple

All in all it was a great day. Great to meet up with people I already knew and meet some new people as well. The talks were excellent and now my only question is … Laura … when is the next one ?

Most of these are really common sense but … far be it from me to have common sense

Health

• Cook more meals
• Eat less junk food (Pizza is not a food group)
• Stop drinking so much (no more having a beer or two in the evening occasional outbursts of madness are allowed)
• Get healthy
• No Energy drinks (coke doesn’t count so much but its on the list allowed with cinema)
• Get my 5 a day ( coffee / coke / red bull / kick / pizza / ham and bread sandwiches don’t count)
• Get to bed at sane hours

Work

• Create forbairt.ie
• Start a large project with code igniter (Task Drop)
• Spend less time working
• Normal working hours
• Take Lunch breaks
• 1 Day off completely a week
• Less *****y projects
• Don’t do favours for friends so much
• More social networking
• Fixed working hours
• Alot some time for training
• Attempt more public speaking

Personal Improvement

• Improve French (Watch EuroNews / Attend meetups for speaking french)
• Do more German

Personal

• Get to cinema more (I’m paying for it I may as well use it)
• Get playing petanque again
• Work on a few personal projects
• Finally move away from dreamhost completely
• Less time spent on forums
• Get rid of the excess of PC hardware / machines I’ve got
• Make time to meet up with friends properly
• Make it to vienna once
• More time for the keyboard (learn 3 nice songs)
• No purchased haircuts this year … its what the hedge trimmers I bought is for
• Waste less food (if something is in the fridge it has to be used)
• Eat out more (BK doesn’t count *sniff sniff*)

Anyways I’ll see how I get on its a pretty long list (at least I think it is)