christmas card of the year 2009

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Yes folks, it’s that time of year again. Time for the second annual (I can call it “annual” now that I’ve done a second one) Wee Doors Banging Christmas Card Of The Year awards. Cue crowd sample. Cue dancing girls.

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2009 in photos

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2009 has passed us by, and to commemorate the old year I’ve picked out some of my favourite personal images from the past twelve months.

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songs in code

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A bit of geeky fun cropped up on Twitter a few days ago in the form of the #songsincode hashtag game, the purpose of which was to rewrite popular songs in the form of programming code and still have the song be recognisable (I said it was geeky). I’ve listed all my entries below, written in a Java-like code. Can you name the songs?

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schmap belfast

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Schmap is a leading publisher of digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.Recently, I was pleased to be informed that a random snap I took of Belfast City Hall grounds with my mobile phone had been included in the 8th edition of the Schmap Belfast Guide in the “Belfast City Centre and Laganside Walk” section.

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got my facebook username vanity url

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On Saturday 13th June 2009 I got up just before 5:00 a.m. and fired up my web browser. Surprisingly enough, this isn’t what I usually do at that time on a Saturday morning. The reason? Facebook launched it’s username vanity URLs at 5:01 a.m. BST (12:01 a.m. EDT) on Saturday, June 13 and I wanted to grab mine.

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a mention in the times

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Googling myself is something I do from time to time and, from time to time, it turns up a surprise. This time, the surprise turned up was that one of the search results was a link to a Times Online article that mentions my earlier post, “25 Random Things About Me”.

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facebook album cover meme

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I’ve been suckered into taking part in another Facebook meme – the album cover.

Instructions:

  1. Go to Wikipedia and click Random
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
    The first random article you get is the name of your band.
  2. Go to “Random Quotations”
    http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
    The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
  3. Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
    http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
    Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
  4. Use Photoshop, MS Paint, Paint.NET or similar to put it all together to make an album cover.
  5. Post it to Facebook with this text in the “caption” and tag the friends you want to join in.

May I therefore now present my first album, “Capital to form a Corporation”, by Ned Berdard Stonehouse.

Ned Bernard Stonehouse - Capital to form a Corporation

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John Girvin is a software engineer, sci-fi buff, cyclist and retrocomputer fan (ie: nerd) from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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googling girv

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It was pointed out to me just recently that girv dot net is the top Google search result for “girv”. Me being the sort of person who doesn’t quite believe things until I try them myself, I duly entered the magic word into the search box and hit the go button. Lo, and indeed behold, there I was at the top of the list.

Google search results for "girv"

Yay me, I rock, I am so cool etc. … until you scroll down a little way (but still on the first page) to this result from the Urban Dictionary.

google-girv-2

According to the Urban Dictionary, a “girv” is defined as a “lesbionic, ugly, scary creature”. There are those who would agree with that definition, at least in parts.

Urban Dictionary definition of "girv" - "lesbionic, ugly, scary creature"

On the next page, they also have quite an apt definition for “girvinator“, which I’ve also been called in the past.

Urban Dictionary definition of "girvinator"

The internets give, and the internets taketh away I guess.

My only remaining question is why someone would search for “girv” in the first place!

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25 random things about me

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There’s a meme on Facebook at the moment where you write 25 random things about yourself that your friends may not realise, then send it to your friends and get them to do the same. Normally I don’t bother with these “do this zany fun thing then spam your friends” requests that seem to infest Facebook, but this one intrigued me. What 25 random things would I write about myself and could I successfuly transplant the idea to blog land?

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christmas card of the year 2008

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Inspired by Destroy All Onions’ own “Christmas Card of the Year”, I have now analysed, cogitated, deliberated and digested upon my own haul of festive greetings slips and come up with my top 3 cards of the year, 2008.

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