Archive for August, 2005
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
[Several previous updates from Heather have, unfortunately, disappeared into the ether. This, fortunately, has made it through.]
I adjusted to time pretty well...we all did. Just stay awake the whole first day, regardless of how many hours kip we had on the plane...then sleep the night and do the rest of ...
Posted in Rowing | Comments Off on Settling in
Saturday, August 27th, 2005
We've had a couple of snafus getting updates from Heather onto the site, but I hope to have matters resolved shortly. Things seem to be going well in the Irish camp, even if they did have to spend time on ergs instead of on the water.
From an event point of ...
Posted in Rowing | Comments Off on Typhoon abates, schedule shifts
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
I should mention that all of Heather's posts, and my posts relating to rowing, are now available on their own page. It's still fairly basic, mainly built on the back of the funferal style sheet and template, but I'll try to prettify it over the next day or so, and ...
Posted in Rowing | Comments Off on Gifu administrivia and update
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
The BCI has just released the JNLR listenership figures for the past year. RTÉ is continuing its slow slide, but still has a share of 40.5% between the three stations measured (Radio 1, 2FM and Lyric FM).
Personally, though, I always rush to see how my old local commercial station, Galway ...
Posted in Corporate media | Comments Off on Galway Bay FM’s listenership
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Greetings from Japan. We arrived not long ago, and are just biding the time away til we sleep... we are staying awake for as long as possible in the hope that we can minimise the effects of jetlag! Not sure if it is working..
This is my first time visiting a ...
Posted in Rowing | Comments Off on Diary
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
We have just finished our last training camp before we fly to Japan. As far as I know this will be the first time an Asian country has held the World Rowing Championships so we are all a bit excited and aprehensive...this really will be an unknown.
When we arrive at ...
Posted in Rowing | Comments Off on My bags are packed
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
My sister Heather is racing in the rowing World Championships this year. More precisely, next week in Japan. She's gracing me with some diary updates of her progress and I'll be including them, as well as some results as they come in, on funferal over the next while.
Slightly different from ...
Posted in Personal, Rowing | Comments Off on Rowing updates, 2005 edition
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Ireland-GlandoreCoCork-DrombergStoneCircleOriginally uploaded by nznomad.I've just started seriously exploring Flickr in the last few days - I know, I know, so behind the curve on this one - and I've found it fascinating on many levels. So well designed, both in usability and the features available.I'm blogging this from ...
Posted in Meta, Online communication, Society and culture | Comments Off on Exploring Flickr
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Sarah, over at Hop, Skip, Jump, has posted another piece about her latest project:This memorial is silent and, aside from my figure squatting with a case in the dust, invisible. I have two minutes of silence in which to think - think about what I am doing, think about ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Labour issues, Political activism, Radio, Society and culture | Comments Off on Art, politics and temporary pirate stations
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
I posted, just over a week ago, about David Harvey's proposed commercial cable channels in Galway and Waterford, to go with his new City Channel. I mentioned at the time that I'd approached the BCI to see what information I could gather about how this might affect the non-commercial cable ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Media regulation | Comments Off on Community television in Ireland – current status