Been busy lately… going to be even busier over the next two weeks, as we launch Emerald Radio – our college’s 1 week long Internet-only radio station, which I’m manager of – and the reason why I recently created a 15 minute documentary programme on the Irish language (thanks, Orlagh!).

If you’re interested, the station broadcasts to the world for limited hours daily from March 8th to 12th. More info will be on the web site (which I’m responsible for).

On a slightly unrelated note, here’s Thin Lizzy with “Emerald”:

Sick of these ads? Of course you are… Well what if you could avoid them altogether?

Here’s a simple tip that heps you do just that,- stopping images and pages from a long list of notorious web sites from being displayed on your browser. These particular ones are hosted on the domain “content.yieldmanager.edgesuite.net” and link to a url at “ad.adperium.com” – literally just a couple of sites among many which are purely for shoving advertising and spam down the viewers throat.

One easy way to stop such ads appearing is to use customise your HOSTS file. This is basically like a local version of a DNS server (those servers that translate domain names into numbers so your browser can find web sites). In the HOSTS file, you’d have a list of all the sites you want blocked and have them correspond to 127.0.0.1 (also known as “localhost”) – so that your browser would try to load the images and pages from your own PC instead of the actual web site.

Handily, someone’s already written a customised HOSTS file for you to use and it’s pretty simple to install. First things first though, – better safe than sorry.. back up the file you’ve got.

I meant to post this on Sunday… Dundalk man Jim Corr’s appeared last weekend on RTÉ’s new Saturday Night Show (hosted by that appalling Cork man Brendan O’Connor). Crap name for a show? Maybe… but at least it’s not “The Brendan O’Connor Show”…

And yes… Jim’s still bonkers… and he’s still going on about the New World Order stuff that he ranted about on the Last Word almost two years ago ahead of the first Lisbon Treaty. He’s still in way out of his depth and still abusing his fame and celebrity to spread this stuff and (repeatedly) promote his activist shite peddling web site.

I mean SURE… he’s entitled to his opinion and he’s certainly entitled to express it if he wants to… (although I believe RTÉ gave him way too much airtime here and any other presenter would have pulled him up on a few points far better than O’Connor could) – but if you’re to believe him, you’d have to believe the following:

Is it a case of “Well said, Mr. Gogarty!” or “What the fuck were you thinking, Paul?”

Up to you…

Worth noting that TV3’s 5:30pm News showed this clip uncensored whereas RTE’s 6.01 News bleeped it.

I like that someone has registered fuckyoudeputystagg.com

On twitter today, I asked …

If you can be ‘disgruntled’ … can you be ‘gruntled’?…

This prompted a response from @SteveHealy who said

@niallok Hmm…I presume it must mean you are highly content and satisfied with life. Also a fantastic word

Agreeing, I replied:

@SteveHealy Not appearing in any dictionaries I’m looking at. I like it. Feeling quite gruntled today

It took a new slant, when Steve came back with:

@niallok For some reason when I say the word I can only imagine pigs. Happy pigs. And that’s alright with me

Which put this into my head:

@SteveHealy Ah perfect! “Gruntled” could be the word for “happy as a pig in shite”

And Steve wrote back:

@niallok We need to get writing to those dictionary lads in Oxford…

He’s right, you know…