Anthony McG

From metroblogging dublin comes the news that plans are being proposed for a cable car system running the length of the Liffey from Heuston Station to the Docklands. The cars would run 80 metres above the river and hold about 25 people. There’s an artists impression of how it will look on that site but I think the whole idea is ridiculous. First off it’s unsightly and I’d be reluctant to create another “tourist attraction” after our famous Spire. I’m all in favour of bringing more people to the city but it won’t be done with half baked ideas like this. How about we aim to bring prices down? It’s €5.10 for a pint of Miller in The Temple Bar. Explain to me how we can attract tourists with gimmicks like a cable car system when we rip them off when they want to go for a drink.

Sunday night was an experience as both of my hard drives had their master boot record and boot partitions corrupted. I had been trying to make a ghost image of Windows XP but the process messed up and nuked the drives. I’m still able to see the contents of the partitions so I can recover the data. It’ll just be a little while before I get it back to normal working order. Was pretty stressed about it but then….

Got bad news yesterday in work. A colleague of mine whom I’ve worked with for two years died over the weekend. He was well respected and had become a good friend over the past few weeks in work. Rest in peace Derek. You lived your days instead of counting the years.

Last Wednesday the crowd from work attended the Digital Media Awards 2006. Our website, dublin.ie, had been nominated in the “Best Information Site” category so we went along to the ceremony in the Burlington. We didn’t win our category, we didn’t really expect to , but had a great night and met some interesting people including an Oscar nominated producer.