I mentioned the Big Ideas 2009 presentations earlier. The video footage shot during the pitch itself and the Q&A session held afterwards has finally made it up to vimeo, so here it is, and it shows just how bad my voice got during the day 🙂
First the pitch:
Then the Q&A:
And then the post interview:
edit: This recipe has now featured on boards.ie’s cooking club!
“Igor? Igor! IGOR!”
“Yeth mather?”
“Bring forth the beef. Bring forth the unsmoked bacon. Bring forth the onions, the spices, the fresh chillies and the holy smoked new mexico reds. Bring froth the salt and the cumin seed, the paprika and the uncouth star anise. Make ready the Grand Pot, heat the Great Iron Skillet, and put the beer in the fridge, for Tonight! TONIGHT, IGOR!”
“Yeth mather?”
“TONIGHT WE MAKE CHILLI!”
Chilli!
Over the next two months or so I plan to move this blog over to a dedicated server, not because wordpress.com is bad, but because wordpress.org just offers a lot in terms of themes and widgets and things to play with (and because I want the server anyway for various programming projects, and it may pull duty hosting On Target and Wallpaper and herself’s book site as well).
Step one in this process was to install wordpress.org on a local LAMP stack on my laptop and that’s done and I’m playing about with it and maybe I’ll write something up on that later, I’m planning on writing about the entire process of switching from wordpress.com to wordpress.org anyway.
Step two was registering domain names. It’s step two because wordpress will allow you to map a domain name to an existing blog, and that eases the handover slightly. So far I’ve only mapped the one domain, but the others will all become active over the coming weeks. So in a few weeks, you can read this blog at all of the following:
Step three : Profit!
Underpants Gnomes
Actually, step three is to source the server, but the underpants gnomes are funnier…
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