http://www.gbish.com Blog XML feed for gbish.com http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/9 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/9 Yes my poor neglected site blog. I really wish i had the time to continually update it with various long drawn out rants and rambellings of my mind .. but I really dont. Plans for keeping this updated really fell at the first hurdle. I think its more to do with me just not being the kind of person to blog, I really just dont know what is worth putting up. I know what Im doing now is probably what I should be doing but, I really dont have the time or energy to be putting big posts like this up, probably a good reason why I have drawn myself to twitter so much. Its short, its quick .. an I can do it from my phone or other various applications making it a hundred times easier to update than this old site of mine. Which really does bring me onto the next question, my various large plans for this site really fell apart. I work 5 days a week, I try to relax and enjoy myself on weekends if I am not trying to keep ontop of my news/design/codeing or playing the odd game. Is it time to maybe put together a newer, smaller site? Something that relies more on pullin gin my regular twitter updated and maybe an easier showcase of my design work? I think yes is the clear and obvious answer.. and so in the coming days weeks months lets face it, knowing me it will probably be a year ;) try and at least come up with some sort of new design, smaller and easier that i can just keep track of things and at least just use this as more of a place for me to go. Less of my fancy plans, make it more realistic... tags: site, work, updates http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/8 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/8 For nearly as long as I can remember we have always had sunny weather for my birthday which provided perfect opportunities to have BBQ's and the like. However this year it was damp and wet on August 1st. It has actually been an awfully dull and wet summer so far here. For my birthday I purchased myself a new digital camera, a Sony DSC-H9 from the lovely people at Pixmania.com. Hopefully this shall mean some more photographs for my gallery here and it should give me a step up into more professional photography In other news, last week I handed in a load of repeat college projects. Yes once again I seem to just be unable to get college work done as well as I can my freelance work, a real pity. I just need to work on it harder next year! In website news, another site I have completed is live and running. It is the first of my sites to be managed by my uControl system. I will have information on the site and also a bit of detail on the uControl system when I add it to my portfolio here. tags: updates, birthday, new camera, sony dsc-h9 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/7 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/7 Well, it has been a while since I last had a chance to update this. I am currently very busy working on several sites. This week I finished handing off one site which has now gone live, details of which shall be put up in my portfolio within the coming days. With that site out of the way it has left me free to put the final touches on another site which I hope to have finished within the coming days. Once that is finished it should leave me enough time to begin scripting another site that I have cut up and ready to go and also get working on the latest TiG site which is part of my summer project. In other news, this week saw the introduction of Sky into the household. The engineer had it installed and setup within an hour and a half which I shall admit is fantastic, a hell of a lot quicker then when we installed the Free to Air satellite ourselves a month or so back. For anyone unsure as to weather or not to get sky, I would highly recommend it :) I hope to have more updates soon as I make my way through this current workload. tags: updates, work, sky http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/6 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/6 Well, following the announcement that the next General Election is going to take palce on May 24th, all parties seem to have covered the country in election posters. Almost overnight it seems as if all the parties covered every lampost from top to bottom in, what seems like an unlimited supply, of posters. I really have no problem with this, I did enough posters as part of Simon's SU President election campaign. However it just seems as though the volume of election posters this year far exceeds previous years. In all honesty, unless I know nothing, a poster isint going to change my mind in any way. But I just wish they might do something a little bit more ingenious, now Im not talking about 2 meter tall letters like we did for Simon's campaign, but just something to set themselves out from the others. Hopefully at least one of the candidites will arrive at my doorstep and wow me over... tags: election 2007, posters http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/5 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/5 Last night, Thursday 12th, was the DCU Clubs and Societies awards in Clontarf Castle Hotel. The night was a lavish affair with everyone in formal attire and a free wine reception upon arrival. I was there as a member of the DCU Games society and although we were short listed for the best society of 2007 we had already discovered that we had not won. However we did not walk away empty handed. The Games Soc chair and also close friend Simon Kilroy won an award for best individual and the DCU Games Society site, which I had designed, went on to win Best Website.The web site was a clear winner at the awards and is also now short listed for the BICS which is the Board of Irish College Societies awards next week in Galway. The site will be going up against other college societies sites from around Ireland and hopefully it will come out on top. This award is the first ever official reward I have received for my web design work and I hope it goes on to win at the BICS awards. For more information on the site itself check out my portfolio. tags: games soc, awards, dcu http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/1 http://www.gbish.com/blog/view/1 Well, after a lot of work and hours of sitting infront of my laptop coding. This site has finally gone live. This site is my own personal presance on the web. It will be a resource for both my own personal and professional work as well as information for the broad range of topics I am interested on. Over the coming weeks I hope to begin to fill my site with as much content as possible, so do please bear with me. It may be looking bare now but I hope to have it filled with content shortly :) tags: new site, launch