NiallOK’s Blog

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I was just starting to get disillusioned with social networking. I thought it was only really for kids (and, possibly for bands - which is why I used MySpace for the radio show) and I always found the sites (well, Bebo and MySpace anyway) to be fairly basic and full of badly designed and far too content-heavy profile pages (although Bebo HAS improved recently).

I even went so far as to delete my Bebo account recently for a couple of reasons - one being the “it’s for kids” excuse and the other being that I couldn’t really keep up with it. That was when I had a “life” however (y’know… fiancèe, home, mortgage, bills, job, etc.). Now that all that’s gone (again!) and I’m rebuilding from scratch, I’ve rekindled my interest in social networking - particularly a certain site called Facebook (or ‘Facebookywook’ as my WEIRD youngest brother occasionally insists on calling it.).

I know I’m coming to the site late (I signed up last September, mostly at Mulley’s suggestion, but only really got into it properly in the last week) but it’s totally sucked me in! Plus, it constantly continues to surprise me with how well it’s put together and how well it uses dynamic HTML and other scripting innovations to create something which feels more like an application than a web site but is still incredibly user friendly.

Granted, at the time of writing, I’ve only got 21 friends, but the difference this time is that they actually ARE all either related to me, or friends or acquaintances of mine - unlike on MySpace for example, where I’ve 299 “friends” most of whom I don’t know from Adam. And who’s Adam anyway? (more…)

My brother and I have the parents house to ourselves for the next 12 days or so. Neither of us are working right now. We’re pretty much sitting around the whole time, watching TV (again, lots of Scrubs), playing the Playstation 3, eating (LOTS of) toast, doing a bit of drinking and each of us constantly looking for the opportunity to respond to the other with “so’s your face” or some other such “witty” comment.

I managed to cook a full Sunday dinner for two yesterday - boiled ham and cabbage, mashed potatoes, gravy and… er… cocktail sausages. Might not seem like a massive achievement and I know it’s just a matter of lobbing everything in where it goes and timing it right… but hey, this is me here.

By the way, this picture is only here because I found it when I did a Google Images search for “I’m No Superman” while watching Scrubs. Yeah, that’s why.

So’s your face.

[EDIT]: By the way, here’s the clip from Scrubs:

It’s been a week since I’ve blogged, and it’ll be a wee while before I get back into the “swing of things” properly again as I’m still finding my feet and getting used to my new temporary surroundings after my relationship/engagement broke up and I left Dundalk for Dublin. I don’t know if I’ll be travelling, I don’t know if I’ll be moving somewhere soon, I don’t really know what’s going to happen.

At the moment, I’ve a couple of possibilities I’m looking at - a couple of options I’m chasing - including a potentially dream-come-true job, which I’m obviously not going to go into detail on right now. Still - right now, I’m in a sort of limbo. Despite getting loads done, I’ve still been doing a lot of sitting around and watching a lot of TV (Scrubs… for example). This will change. I’ll spring into action… soon.

It’s strange to see all your “worldly possessions” crammed into one small space (my folks, who I’m staying with, have one of these - a barbecue house - out in the back garden - and it’s basically been emptied out and then filled with my stuff). I’d never realised just how much I had (4 car loads and 1 Transit van load of furniture, DJ gear, computers & equipment, clothes and other stuff) but neither had I realised just how small a space it would all squash into and just how much of it I’d be considering throwing out.

Life goes on. Blogging will resume as normal (apart from the “Crunchy Links” - can’t be arsed with them any more)… soon.

Happy Paddy’s Weekend to you all.