Anthony McG

The 2010 F1 season kicks off this weekend in Bahrain. I took this shot on my trip to the Italian GP last year. Hopefully it’ll be a good one:

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All eyes will be on Croker this weekend as Ireland face Wales in the Six Nations. To mark the occasion, adidas have made special boots (close up) for Ireland’s captain, Brian O’Driscoll who makes his 100th appearance. He follows John Hayes in hitting the century this season who got his in the win over England. Brian is the top try scorer for Ireland with 38 and hopefully he’ll add a couple more on Saturday with these on em. You can follow his updates on Twitter @brianodriscoll (where he confirmed it was actually him when I asked) and his web site is here. Congrats on the century Brian.

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Last weekend I took the trip down to Kilkenny for the inaugural Wordcamp Ireland organised by Sabrina Dent and Katherine Nolan. I’ve been using WordPress since its inception but I’ve never really dug under the hood so it was great to hear some quality speakers talking about how they use the platform. The weekend started on Friday with our team (myself, @yoast and @AMcDermott) winning the Chaos Thaoighaire event in Langton’s. I can only describe it as one of the most random things I’ve ever attended and would heartily recommend you check out their site and go to one. I’ll definitely be at the next one in Dublin.

Throughout the weekend I spent most of my time in the ‘tech’ track and particularly enjoyed Joost de Valk’s talk on 40 SEO tips. The guy really knows his stuff and it was great to pick up practical references and resources. Other highlights for me included: Jane Wells‘ talk on WordPress 3 (there’s some really cool stuff coming), Eddie Johnston’s overview of frameworks and Thematic in particular, Andrea Trasatti’s tips around handling mobile users and Garrett Coakley’s closing showcase of beautiful WP sites. The venue was great, the talks were informative, the people were friendly and overall I had a fantastic weekend. Now I just need to follow up on all the notes I made. There’ll be videos from some of the talks up on WordPress TV in the next week so. Here’s to WordCamp 2012.

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Went along to see CODES headline at the Academy last week. Have to say they were fantastic live with great energy and smashing songs. Shades of Muse about them and I’d definitely recommend picking up their debut album ‘Trees Dream in Algebra‘ (iTunes link).

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Taken last year at Kev & Oana’s wedding in Romania. Think it shows just how much fun was had.

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