Online Dating Services

One in every four internet users is signed up on at least one online dating service. That's the bold claim made in the introduction to Dating Services which provides a free guide to such sites. Whatever the percentage of Internet users who are actively participating in online dating sites it certainly is a growing number as internet dating becomes an increasingly commonplace way of meeting a match.

In response to this Dating Services is one of those sites to emerge which offers a guide to the sites and some general advice about internet dating.

The advice given by Dating Services includes some basic tips such as taking precautions to ensure your safety, giving out your personal details and being sceptical about what people tell you about themselves.

From there it goes into more detail about what to look for in a site when you are thinking of joining one, such as the age profile of the members, the size of the membership and costs.

Dating Services is an interesting read and clearly some effort has been made to compile the information and put it all together in the one site. Presumably the pay-off for the owners is when people join the dating sites being reviewed using their affiliate links. It is probably for this reason that it tends to be a little overly dismissive of the free as opposed to the subscription dating sites.

The Guide is well put together and, while it doesn't include any groundbreaking news, it does cover all the basic points that anyone looking to join an internet dating site might want to consider.

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Our Daily Colonel

A salesman from KFC walked up to the Pope and offers him a million dollars if he would change "The Lord's Prayer" from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken." The Pope refused his offer.

Two weeks later, the man offered the Pope 10 million dollars to change it from "give us this day our daily bread" to "give us this day our daily chicken" and again the Pope refused the man's generous offer. Another week later, the man offered the Pope 20 million dollars and finally the Pope accepted.

The following day, the Pope said to all his officials, "I have some good news and some bad news. 'The good news is, that we have just received a check for 20 million dollars. The bad news is, we lost the Wonder Bread account!'

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Issues in the World of Web Designing

I became separated from the world of Web Designing around about 1999. When I started designing web-sites in 1995 I was not quite a pioneer but I wasn’t too far off. The internet was a different place then. With grey backgrounds and tables being the cutting edge of design I was like a one-eyed man in the land of the blind.

Things started running away from me as the years went on and around 2000 I started to lose track as my hands on, day-to-day web-site maintenance ceased. My web design skills since then haven’t developed beyond creating tables within tables within tables.

Today if it wasn’t for blogging software I’d barely be able to maintain a site. Knowledge of HTML is now commonplace. To survive nowadays, as this post about the world of Web Designing demonstrates, requires knowledge of a greater variety of languages.

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Could This Be Summer?

The last two days in Dublin were wonderfully sunny days. The forecast is for tomorrow to be the same and for the day after to be slightly less so until it gradually descends back into foul, relentless rain on Saturday. Luckily for me I’m off work tomorrow and Thursday as I was today. Last years so-called summer is still firmly in the forefront of my memory and it is just possible that these few days of good weather are our lot as far as summer weather goes. Enjoy it while you can!

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Cher in Las Vegas

The newest attraction at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas is Cher who is starting to tomorrow, replacing Celine Dion and performing for four nights a week for a month.

Cher's new show, which is being performed at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace will feature 18 dancers and aerialists. The show will also feature video and special effects and the costumes that you would expect from Cher and Vegas.

It has been some career for Cher, born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946. She started performing in the 1960s and has been through several lifetimes of experiences in the meantime. Interestingly before Sonny and Cher came to be known as such they performed first of all as Caesar and Cleo. In a way then Cher's career has come around full circle; starting off as Caesar and Cleo and coming around to now as Cher in Caesars Palace!

It's a funny thought she will be spending her 62nd birthday performing in Las Vegas. Yes, she is actually performing that night! You can be sure that Cher tickets at Caesars Palace for that night in particular will be highly sought after.

In a way Cher and Las Vegas seem to be a perfect match. An evening with Cher in Caesers Palace strikes me as the perfect way to experience a trip to Las Vegas!

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Me and Mini Budda

When the thought popped into my head to buy a bean bag a couple of weeks ago I had a figure in my head for what it would cost: €20. This was based on my memories of living in Rathmines where the Blackberry Fair was. At the entrance to the market was a sign advertising bean bags for sale. The first time I saw the sign I think the price was something like £15.

I realised there was a chance that the price of them may have gone up slightly over the years but, considering the basic ingredients of a bean bag are cloth and foam I didn't imagine the inflation would have been too great. Also the image I had of a bean bag was of a cheap type of furnishing for a university students bedsit.

Of course, as I should have expected, times have changed. For one thing, the Blackberry Fair has been closed for over a year. I found this out when I got the bus into Rathmines last Saturday to buy my bean bag. I haven't lived in Rathmines for ten years now and it is about five since I was last in the Blackberry Fair. It was a complete news flash to me therefore when I arrived to find it all locked up.

When I discovered the Fair was closed my plans to buy a bean bag were in a heap. I had looked for one while shopping in the city centre the previous day and the only one I saw was selling for about €130 in Argos. That was when I remembered the Fair and thought it would be worth my while to make the trip out to Rathmines. I made a quick stop off in an internet café and googled 'bean bags in Dublin'. I found posts that said that the Blackrock Market sold them too but Budda Bag on Millennium Walk won the search engine war for me and I got the bus back into town.

Prices were a little bit higher than I had expected. A footstool type bean bag was €100. I bought the Mini Budda which is a one person bean bag with a 1.5 metre diameter and costs €290.

While I spent more on it than I had intended I think it was worth it. It is a very comfortable way to relax. Since I've got it I've spent most of my time in the flat on it, reading, sleeping, surfing and watching TV. I've even tried a bit of meditation on it as well.

I can't imagine a Mini Budda gracing many poor university students bedsits. But then again I can't imagine many poor university students. Possibly the price of bean bags is linked to the spending power of the average Arts Student.

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Times I Almost Died

A thought occurred to me yesterday after I posted the YouTube clip of Des Bishop singing The House of Pain's Jump Around in Irish. I was reminded of the time I was listening to that song as I made my way into school one morning.

As usual I was running a little late -- about half an hour. I really couldn't help it. I lived in the countryside miles and miles away from the school I was going to. The only way I had of getting to school at the time was by hitch-hiking which isn't a very reliable method of getting somewhere on time.

This particular morning when I finally got a lift into town it was from someone who wasn't going very close to my school. When they dropped me off in town I still had a bit of a walk to go to get to school. Part of my route involved walking across some wasteground.

The ground was rough and uneven and I was listening to The House of Pain on my walkman as I stumbled over it. It was a dark and ugly morning, full of rain and wind. I was pretty much withdrawn into myself as I plodded on across the wasteground listening to my music.

After walking across all the rough ground I then walked several more steps before I realised that the ground surface had changed. I had reached the end of the wasteground and stepped out onto the road. I had walked across one lane before I realised this. As soon as I saw where I was I jumped back to the edge of the road and counted my blessings. Luckily it was after the rush hour and the traffic wasn't as heavy as it would have been an hour or so earlier.

I know this isn't the most dramatic of near-death experiences but it doesn't take much to end a life. A car passing at the wrong time and I’d have been finished, possibly without even realising what had happened.

I can think of another couple of times where similar things have happened. The time I was standing at a street corner waiting to cross the road when a double-decker bus took the corner too sharply and mounted the footpath. I was about four inches away from not having to worry about global warming that time. I exchanged glances with the guy standing beside me and we raised our eyebrows at each other. We both knew that we had been very close to finding out what it's all about.

There was the other time when I was standing at a bus-stop waiting for the bus to work. The bus-stop was beside an office block which was under construction. I was leaning against the wall of this new building when a concrete slab fell from the top of the building (six stories) and slammed into the footpath about twenty feet away from me.

Ok I wasn't in any danger at twenty feet but it was close enough for me! Once again, if that slab had been better aimed I'd have been dead and I wouldn't have known what had happened.

Those are only the times I almost died that I can remember the details of. There was another time when I was almost electrocuted. I can't remember the exact details but I was doing a bit of electrical wiring for a friend and there was some confusion about who'd taken the fuse out. I forget how that went but I remember the mental shock I got when I switched the appliance on after I was finished and realised that power had been flowing through it while I had been tinkering with it. It's funny how I can't remember much of the details of that incident but I suppose by that stage I'd been almost killed in senseless accidents so many times that it was barely worth taking notice of.

Anyway, long story short. Life is precious, you're lucky to be alive and enjoy every minute.

Also, look where you're going, don't stand right up to the edge of the footpath, remember the scaffolding is there for a reason and check the fuses yourself.

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