blog.NiallOK.com http://blog.niallok.com - an archive of the niallok.com blog (now defunct) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 I kill it. http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1537 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1537#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:46:35 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1537
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    • ]]>     About time for me, really.

    It’s been a month since I posted anything- and I don’t know how long since I posted anything that could actually be called worthwhile or meaningful.

    I’ve honestly had nothing to say on a publicly viewable blog for some time now – despite having plenty to say on twitter… I’ve just ended up occasionally posting stuff that made me laugh or whatever but not really given much proper attention to this site. There was a time when I had witty or entertaining things to say here… but that time has passed.

    So, while it may be my second or third time doing so (previous times I wasn’t sure if it’d be back.. this time I know it won’t), I hereby “officially” kill off niallok.com in it’s blog format. It’ll come back in some other format – probably as some sort of showcase of my radio work or something (as I had originally planned for my .ie site)… I dunno yet.

    Thanks for reading.

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1537 0     Here’s something to cheer you up http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1532 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1532#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 13:42:46 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/2010/05/31/heres-something-to-cheer-you-up/ I’m busy… but this should keep people occupied for… a few mins at least…

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1532 0     Avatar 2 Trailer http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1529 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1529#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 13:20:12 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/2010/05/28/avatar-2/ Epic… ;)

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1529 0     Latest photoblog entries http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1527 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1527#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 12:05:07 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1527 My phone can upload to blogspot. Handy. Or at least it would be if the battery wasn’t faulty at the moment (I’m gonna upgrade to an iPhone soon…). Grr. etc.

    Anyway, direct from my phone, via my photoblog to your eyes, here’s some of the recent pictures I’ve taken…


    Next station Mullingar?.. But I just left Malahide…


    Reminder to self… Buy this album


    The manual… for Dad’s new car


    Just use bleach… or there’ll be a chemical attack


    That’s weird… window on Crane Street

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1527 0     Star Wars Day and the LiveIreland crew http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1523 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1523#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 16:54:52 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1523
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    • ]]>     Forgot to post this last week… Myself and a few others from the LiveIreland crew (I do a show there on Tuesday evenings, 6-8pm Irish time) marked Star Wars Day (May The Fourth… you know… May The Fourth be with you?… yeah…) by appearing in a JibJab video of the sci-fi classic.

    And I got to be Han Solo… ohh yeahhhh…

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1523 0     Meatloaf, too many candles and some gypsy sluts http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1518 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1518#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:57:55 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1518
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    • ]]>     Love these “literal music videos”… basically they’re funny versions of music videos with the lyrics replaced to cleverly explain what’s going on in the video itself – usually with subtitles. The best known probably has to be the literal version of Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler.

    This one in particular, though, had me laughing out loud today:

    (Found via Dublin’s 98’s Brendan O’Loughlin on twitter)

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1518 0     Yip Yip Aliens like RTÉ Pulse http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1515 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1515#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:24:44 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1515
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    • ]]>
    Here’s the Yip Yip Aliens from Sesame Street… remember them? Well here they are discovering radio. They flick around the channels, don’t like most of them, settle on RTÉ Pulse (*) and dance around with their jaws going ‘happy happy… boing boing’. HOoRaY!

    (*: Not really)

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1515 1     The week ahead http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1495 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1495#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:19:44 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1495
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    • ]]>     I gave verbal notice in work yesterday – will be giving it in written format soon… gave them loads of time… bit of a weight off now to know I’ll be leaving the bar trade again by the end of May at the latest… \o/

    Anyway, I’ve a busy enough week ahead and I have it all planned out… which, I guess, is nice…

    Monday (today):
    Tuesday:
    Wednesday:
    Thursday:
    Friday:
    Saturday:
    Sunday:
    		 Assignment work, Football, Beer, Telly
    LiveIreland (I present a show from 6 – 8pm)
    SMedia Awards 2010 (I’m nominated as “Web Designer of the Year”)
    Spirit Radio – doing some work for these nice folks
    Assignment work, Drive to Cork
    Drive to Cork, BMac Media Radio Workshop, Cork Int’l Airport Hotel
    Head home, via i105-107 studios, Athlone



    Somewhere in the middle of all that, I’ll likely be doing some stuff for Open FM too. While it may still mean that I won’t have much time for blogging (I’ll let ye know if I win on Wednesday!), it IS nice that, for once, my week is more-or-less dominated by radio stuff…

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1495 4     Nominated http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1492 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1492#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:06:48 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1492
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    • ]]>     I’ve been nominated & shortlisted for an award… “Web Designer of The Year” at the 10th annual Student Media (SMedia) Awards.

    This means that I get to dress up in smart and spiffy clothes and go to a fancy awards night shindig in the Mansion House, meet some genuinely talented people, have a few beers, hear my name announced as a nominee… and go home empty handed but happy… just like I did last year. Yes, that’s right – I’m not expecting to win. Don’t get me wrong… I’d be delighted to win of course!… I’m just not expecting to.

    Last year I was nominated in the same category for the Switch FM web site (which was at switchfm.ie but is now archived here) – this year it’s for the Emerald Radio site, which, along with the radio station itself, I was very happy with overall. The photos, the interaction and in particular the podcasts – it’s all been great!

    I’m only one of many nominees from Ballyfermot College of Further Education – a college with a really strong media reputation, and who usually have a good showing in the awards. The college actually completely dominates the Best Animation category for example, being guaranteed to take the award, having gotten every single nomination.

    We’ll see, eh?

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    ]]>     http://blog.niallok.com/?feed=rss2&p=1492 0     It goes WEEEIP!… AHHHHH! http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1489 http://blog.niallok.com/?p=1489#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:43:04 +0000 Niall http://niallok.com/?p=1489
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    • ]]>     People make dance tracks out of the strangest things…

    Here’s Bill Wyman’s Metal Detector, by Swede Mason

    He also mashes up and dance-ify’s Jeremy Clarkson:

    and loads more besides. Nice work, fellah!

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