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A round up of a few videos and photos of the flooding in Cork last month. Panciostela drove from Victoria Cross up the Carrigrohane Straight to Windsor Motors and posted 3 videos along the way, shooting the flood in the Kingsley Hotel last. Any vehicles in the underground carpark there must have been completely destroyed. Lots of photos on Flickr and pix.ie (floods around the country), there’s even a Submerged Cork Flickr Group. Brian Clayton posted some outstanding photos of the floods on his blog. Thanks to Margaret Jordan where I saw one of the videos above and prompted me to post this. Related PostsFlooding in CorkBBC NEWS | UK | Rain-making li …Floods wreak havoc in Prague – …...

Well, this might be one of the last times I do a huge WordPress MU merge! I’ve just finished merging the code from WordPress 2.9 beta 1 into WordPress MU trunk. No, I didn’t link to the actual merge changeset. That’s 2007 and huge! Want to give it a go? Grab the zip file from here and install it on a test server. Do not, under any circumstances install it on your production server! Be aware that I haven’t tested most of the code yet so there may have been errors made during the merge. We also need to work out a good way of adding the commentmeta table to each blog. If your MU site has more than a few dozen blogs you need to add this table before you upgrade. On WordPress.com, it took quite a long time to add that table to each of the millions of blogs there!...

I’ve asked a few people to write blog posts for my blog this week, the first of which is “The Swearing Lady” from the blog Arse End of Ireland. She was shortlisted in many a category in the blog awards this year and if you’ve not read her, do and subscribe to her too. Oh and her birthday is this Wednesday, so wish her an early happy birthday. This is her guest post: :: You have no idea how much it upsets me to introduce myself as “The Swearing Lady”, but that’s how you lot know me, so it’ll have to do. It’s my own fault, naturally. When the blogging bug hit me, which it did with the optimistic wallop you get when applying for a large bank loan, I needed a name and I didn’t think too hard about being saddled with it. Like said large bank loan, I...

Well the sixth and final letter landed on Tuesday, a full week after it was sent. So be warned, if you are sending mail to an address in Dublin; give yourself at least a week for delivery. This pours cold water on An Post’s bold claims that “About 90 per cent of these are delivered the following working day, 99 per cent are delivered within 48 hours.” I’ve written 2 letters to An Post via snail mail to see if they have any credible explanation for al this. I banged off a letter written in English to the English version of their address ‘Customer Services, An Post, Ground Floor, GPO, Freepost, Dublin 1’ and a letter written in Irish to the Irish version of their address ‘Seirbhísí Custaiméara, An Post, Céad Urlár, Ard-Oifig an Phoist, Saorphost, Baile Átha Cliath 1...

Well a week on and I’m still no closer to the truth! After sending 6 letters only 5 have landed at their destinations so far; the 1 remaining undelivered letter had to travel the shortest distance (Dublin to Dublin). But what is the meaning of it? Is there a mountain of undelivered Irish addressed letters in a sorting office in the midlands somewhere? To get to the bottom of this I guess I’m going to have to dust off my old frock and get Martina Mary O’Connor to write directly to An Post. 1. Dublin to Gaeltacht Address written in English: Sent: March 13 – Received: March 14 Address written in Irish: Sent: March 13 – Received: March 16 2. Dublin to Regional Town Address written in English: Sent: March 13 – Received: March 14 Address written in Irish: Sent: March 13 –...

The plot thickens!!! It seems that this may not be a straight forward as I first thought. Out of the 3 addresses I sent mail to all have received at least one of the letters, with one receiving both. The two addresses that only received one letter only received the letters addressed in English. It may be that this anomaly where Irish addressed letters get delayed may be restricted to some local sorting offices. Of course it would help if I knew more about the sorting system or what network is in place; to this end I will be contacting An Post directly to see if they can shed more light on the issue. Anyway, the wait goes on for the two remaining Irish addressed letters. Below is a breakdown of the sent and received dates of each letter. 1. Dublin to Gaeltacht Address written in English:...

Well it seems the rumour is proving to be founded in truth, so far anyway. The first report back of a letter being delivered to one of the addresses was today and of course only one landed; and yes you guessed it, it was the English addressed letter that arrived to the door! What make this first report all the worse is that the address in question is located in a Gaeltacht area! “Port Láirge?? Jazus where’s that??…” I will know this evening if any letters landed to the other 2 addresses but for now things are not looking good for An Post. And for anyone who thinks this is trivial and not worth investigating, just ask the thousands of businesses, located inside and outside the Gaeltacht, who depend on mail being delivered on time to carry out their...

Tá ráflaí ag dul timpeall nach bhfuil rudaí ar fad I gceart in An Post. Tá sé tugadh faoi deara agam féin agus ag roinnt dom chomrádaí go bhfuil maoil neamhghnách tagadh ar post sa tir seo, go hairithe nuair a seoltar as gaeilge an litir. Chun í seo a tástáil taim chun sé litir a chur sa phost go trí seoladh éagsúil. Beidh dhá litir ag dul go gach seoladh. Tá an seoladh i mbearla ar litir amhain agus as Gaeilge ar an litir eile. Feicfimid a bheidh aon difríocht idir an fad a dtógann sé ortha a gceann scribe a bhaint amach! Rumour has it that all is not well in An Post. I know I’m not alone in noticing a delay in how long it takes mail to be processed and delivered these days; especially if the address is written in Irish. Some say it down to the sorting machines...

Dave, Branedy, Tom and Donncha were mentioned in a piece about Cork bloggers in the Sunday Business Post pull-out section on Cork. I got a mention too. Good quotes from Branedy I must say. Peter Flynn was mentioned for his pioneering work in putting Ireland on the world wide web. Is Cork the real Capital of Irish blogging? Also in the same section was a a bit on IT@Cork with a great pic of Donagh, Catherine and Donal looking very confident. They should send that to Tim O’Reilly with a caption “Bring it on!”. Technorati Tags: blogging blogs business cork ireland irish irishblogs it@cork...

I have just read with interest the new rates guide Page 6 (in the creators pagination) mentions a special rate for “Sending books abroad” I occasionally sell books on ebay and post them to them abroad (they are in English so I post to UK, US, CA) I wonder what the strings are? How eill the post office know my envelopes contain books and not something else? Also why can’t eh yuse the more favourable phrase of “Printed papers”?...

A very interesting visual representation of US zip codes...

Self harm is a blog by John which helps to explain what self-harm is and why people cut themselves and inflict other forms of harm on themselves. I’ve been reading the blog a while now and it’s educated me quite a lot about this issue. I didn’t nominate many blogs for the blogawards but I did nominate this blog in the Best Personal Blog category. This blog deserves a bigger audience in my opinion and it was great to see Markham write a piece in the Sunday Business Post about it and have John interviewed in it too. To quote a small piece from it: John cuts himself. It feels like the sting of sunburn and a release of pressure. When his feelings get confused and his thoughts are clouded, he seeks solace in pain. The pain focuses him, it’s a pure sensation, a reminder...