I typed in my birthday, “18 April 1990″ into WolframAlpha to find that the date was 6999days ago. Tomorrow I turn 7000 days old. Or 1000 weeks. Or if you really want to be boring 19 years old and 2 months.

Some other info about that day 7000 days ago:

• sunrise : 6:31 am GMT/IST
• sunset : 8:39 pm GMT/IST
• duration of daylight : 14 hours 8 minutes

I also learned that I have the same birthday as Conan O’ Brian, and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty).

So you see, Wolfram Alpha may only be for mathematicians and idiots for now, but you can get some use out of it. Just dont ask “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

Music

I had written a post about the upcoming single by Green Day – Know Your Enemy – and while I like it, I think it cant be appreciated fully until you hear it along with the rest of the album. They have previewed 7 tracks on their website and they’re all quite amazing. It’s sounds like such an ambitious record, with some of the most complex and diverse pieces of music. Some Lennon, some Queen, and (for some reason) a little Linkin Park. All this coming from a band whose name stems from a day of smoking weed. Huh. So I got a ticket for their show in October.

Sport

As a person from Limerick, I was devastated to see Munster not so graciously fall to pieces in the Heineken Cup Semi-Final. Leinster were the better team though, and as much as I’ll hate to admit this I will support them in the Final. Also its going to tear me apart to see Barcelona and Manchester United play in the final. My childhood team, versus the team I’ve secretly supported for 3-4 years… Oh well, at least it wont be disappointing for me at the end of May 24th.

Coding

Now with the exams over, I can focus om designing some good sites. I have a couple clients already, mixed in with a site I have a few ideas for. For designers.. thats all I’m saying. Also learning a bucket load of jQuery and PHP at the moment. If you have any good sites for me to expand my knowledge, please leave a link in the comments

Now I must go. My splitting headache is calling for sleep, and I don’t want to disappoint.

Right now I am travelling a reasonable 70km/h on my way to Clonmel for another day of lectures. This route will be more productive and less tiresome, now that I have a connection.

Nokia are even polite enough to ask what carrier I’m on, so they can retrieve the exact settings I need to connect. O2 Ireland can be seen below, along with Oman Mobile.

My last few phones I’ve attempted in doing this task, and it’s either been unavailable, or extremely difficult to get it to work. Nokia have finally gotten this right, and its been a long time waiting for many of us.

All I had to do is install the Ovi suite and connect my phone via cable and set the mode to “PC Suite”. I haven’t tried bluetooth tethering yet, but it should be the same process.

The speeds aren’t terrible either. They are faster that my secondary school’s download speed when I was there, so I guess I cannot complain!

O2 Ireland Speeds

When the Late Late started in the 1964 it catered for the youth of that generation. Little do they realise that that generation is gone, and that there are serious amounts of money to be made in the younger generation today. Isn’t that the whole reason why the presenters are getting pay cuts, because they don’t have enough?

This is yet another example of why it pays to make quality shows. Why would any advertisers pay for a 30-second advertisement spot when there is nothing the people watching the show want. And why would anyone watch a show which isn’t any good? It doesn’t make sense to me.

If my assumptions are correct and RTE actually want to make some money, they should hire someone who is actually worth it. Someone who can spread conversation throughout Ireland. Someone who is funny, and appealing to all age groups. Someone like?

• Dara O’ Briain
• Tommy Tiernan
• George Hooke

Any one of those people would make a good presenter. Kevin Coleman has a blog post, with a poll contemplating Pat Kenny’s replacement.

But why stick to the same format? With a new presenter could come new ideas. How about two presenters, or even a guest presenter. A live twitter stream running off of a TV with everyone using the #LLS hash tag. The possibilities are endless.

The most depressing part of all of this is they’re going to pick Gerry Ryan, and there is nothing we can do about it

Studying is a bitch

Hey guys. As you might have realised. I’m behind on my Design a WordPress 2.7 Theme, and for good reason. I am in the middle of assignment season and I’m getting close to the exam time of the semester. Right now my eyes are glued to PowerPoint Presentations and Word Documents, trying to study the Boot Process of all major Operating Systems.

Another reason for my tardiness, is due to the fact that I want to create the best tutorial, and I need to figure out what sort of design to use for the template.

So while you’re waiting why not have a look back at some of my previous posts. And subscribe to my RSS Feed while you’re at it too

As some of you might know, I am 6 months into my 4 year course in Tipperary Institute. In those six months I’ve never been so busy as I am this following week.

So far this week, I have

• Exam on Computer Operating Systems and Architecture for Multimedia Technology
• A project due to hand-up on Wednesday delivering a JavaScript-based game of Tic-Tac-Toe. None of us have this done.
• I also have a web development assignment to get stuck into
• A take home assignment on Lecture 1- 8 of Multimedia Technology
• I have to have a storyboard drawn of an animation that touches on the environment topic.
• And I have to study a piece of animation and talk about how the 12 principles of animation are used in it.

Such a looong week! I’ll manage (I hope)

#alanshair

Late tonight, we Irish made history for the second time in one day. Not an easy feat to do, and hard to find something as impressive (if not more impressive) than winning the Grand Slam for the first time in 61 years. But we managed it, and all with the help of #alanshair

Alanshair is basically a social experiment to see if a group of people can trend a certain topic, #alanshair, on the popular social networking site, Twitter. Trending is the phrase given to the idea of making somerthing popular on Twitter. The difference between this  and any other trended topic, is that this was random, not used for an event or occasion. But in a sense, we created this out of nothing and so it has become an occasion in its own right. This was set up by @TheJamesFoley out of either boredom, fascination or both.

So what is #alanshair? Well its Alan’s hair of course. Yes we chose @alancostello as our subject. I’m not entirely sure if he gave his blessing on the matter, but hey its beyond his control now! Basically after @TheJamesFoley tweeted, we just started tweeting about #alanshair.

In less than an hour we got this result.

Pretty cool huh? I’ve never been that trendy!

Alan himself, had this to say on the events that are unfolding right now. So if you want to have your say.
So did James Foley, the guy who started this fun fiasco.
Aislinn posted also.