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Dave Johnson in Blogging
02:08PM Jul 11, 2006
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Lodging. B&B's are
numerous in Ireland, but we favored guest houses when we made our
lodging plans. Looking back, our favorites were Davitt's guest house in Kenmare and the Buttermilk Lodge in Clifden.
Food. We found lots of choices for food and we had indian, chinese, Irish contemporary and pub-grub. Our favorite meals were at Punjab Balti in Dublin, Davitt's restaurant in Kenmare, Laken House in Kilkenney and the Porterhouse in Dublin.
Connnectivity. Mobile phone signal is strong all over the island -- four bars everywhere. Internet access can be found in post offices, coffee shops and other businesses. Wireless internet is a little difficult to find, but we found it at the video store in Clifden, a coffee shop in Galway and a computer store in Kenmare. Price was around four euro / hour.
Prices. Food and fuel are pretty expensive in Ireland right -- and the
USD to Euro exchange rate doesn't help. Renting a car is also very
expensive, which must be due to the dangerous roads.
And finally here are links to the previous posts in this series:
And that's it for the vacation. Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Dave Johnson in General
05:00PM Jul 07, 2006
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Next, we stopped briefly at the seaside town of Bray before heading back to Dublin. Thursday was our list night in Ireland, so we stayed near the airport in a Eagan's guest hour. We didn't want to venture all the way downtown, so we ate at the Porterhouse restaurant just a couple of blocks away. Porterhouse is a micro-brewery with an awesome selection of beer, and a very interesting guide to beer on every table, and reasonably priced food. I didn't expect much from the place, but it turned to be one of the best dining experiences of the trip.
When we arrived at the airport, we found chaos and another bomb-scare in progress. Somebody left a rucksack under a stairway in the arrivals area, so the authorities order an evacuation and called the bomb-squad. Our flights were delayed for a couple of hours, but we both made it home safely by the end of the day.
Dave Johnson in General
05:00PM Jul 06, 2006
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Tonight we're staying at the Laken House, a restaurant and 10-room guest house across the river from the castle. The room is nice and our package-deal included dinner which was excellent, but the place is empty and the dead-quiet is a little disconcerting. Tomorrow we're off to Dublin for the last night.
Dave Johnson in General
06:18PM Jul 05, 2006
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Dave Johnson in General
08:53AM Jul 05, 2006
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Dave Johnson in General
09:39AM Jul 04, 2006
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Dave Johnson in General
12:00PM Jul 03, 2006
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Dave Johnson in General
12:00PM Jul 02, 2006
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Dave Johnson in General
12:30PM Jul 01, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
10:39AM Jun 29, 2006
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Robert Burke: And it was kinda cool to be the Microsoft guy running Apache and PHP on his laptop :)I'm sorry I missed that talk.
Dave Johnson in Microsoft
08:58AM Jun 29, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
08:00AM Jun 28, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Roller
02:51AM Jun 27, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
09:01AM Jun 26, 2006
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Nick Bradbury: when I'm coding away like a madman, I don't blog (or do much of anything else!)That's what happens to me too. For me it's this -- do I blog about the blog software I'm developing or do I continue to code? If I blog about those cool new Roller 3.0 features I'm working on, perhaps I won't finish them in time to get them into Roller 3.0. Fortunately for my blog, a mega-thunderstorm just rolled in and it's bad enough that I've shutdown my w2100z, unplugged my UPS and moved out to the porch to catchup on email and blogs.
Dave Johnson in Roller
01:32PM Jun 23, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Java
07:57PM Jun 21, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
07:27PM Jun 21, 2006
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Dave Johnson in Blogging
10:38AM Jun 20, 2006
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WCF RSS Toolkit tutorial: The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds. Using this toolkit, developers can easily expose a service as an RSS or Atom feed. The toolkit supports exposing a service as an RSS 2.0 feed, Atom 1.0 feed and SOAP endpoint simultaneously. The toolkit can also be extended to support other wire formats.The announcement is here. We held up the book (yes, this is shameless plug day on Blogging Roller) to cover the Windows RSS platform and now this, the server side of equation. Don't tell Manning about it or my summer will be ruined.
Dave Johnson in Blogging
06:29PM Jun 19, 2006
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