A Canadian in Ireland

Just something quick to prove I'm still around



Sh*t Saskatchewanians Say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESIkrxNq1GE

Has one been made about your "group"? Please share.

And a proper post with, you know, content coming soon... ish.

Finally have a bit of time for what seems to becoming the annual Christmas blog post.

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And brings the snow with it.

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Life got you down and the day seems too long.
Make up new words to this little song.
Don't worry,
Be silly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

See here for some more inspiration.

C'mon, I travelled all way to Saskatoon. I want to see a win.

Let's go Riders!! Let's go Riders!!

Just something quick to mark the occasion.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw

Have a good one, eh.

Our chickens have hatched arrived, so I guess it's ok to count them now.



We went down to Myshall in Carlow on Sunday, to a poultry sale. It was quite something to see, I had no idea that it would be such a big event.

There were plenty of chickens, obviously.



Including some quite exotic breeds.



This rooster looked like he was on stilts.

But there were also ducks and geese.



Pigeons



Songbirds



Rabbits



even goats.



Frankly, it was little overwhelming to a couple of novice chicken buyers, but eventually we found what we were after. A pair of Rhode Island Reds.



Mam gave them a good once over and was satisfied with their condition. And they were plenty lively, as we learned in the escape attempt while they were being boxed up. But once they were settled in their crate in the back of the van they settled down for the trip home.

The transfer to the coop went much more smoothly and though they were a bit leery of these strange new digs



They are well settled in now.

It will be 2-3 weeks before we start seeing eggs, stay tuned. In the meantime you can go and look at the rest of the album.

I don't know if you've been following all the latest developments around My Opera, but I seem to have found one of the downsides.

First Opera introduced the Single Sign On, which basically means once you have created and signed in with your My Opera account you can acces any of Opera's services without having to log in again.

Opera also launched a new web mail service and gave all My Opera members an account.

Now one of the issues with this Single Sign On is that some My Opera members have user names which are not compatible with some services. Opera has realized this and have created a wizard which allows you to change your user name to something that will work everywhere.

Now, my old username - Mickeyjoe_irl - did have a problem. The underscore _ is one of those characters which is not compatible, so I decided to use the wizard to fix this and allow me to use services like Opera Link and Opera Unite, unavailable to me up to now.

So I went through the wizard and changed my username to Mickeyjoe-Irl and everything seemed to go fine. I logged out, logged back in with my new details no problem. I then setup Opera Link and synced my speed dial between my laptop and Desiree.

But when I checked my blog I noticed a problem, images were missing and links were broken. While the wizard will update your blog address and albums, it does NOT update any links you have included in your posts and comments.

So I'm in the process of going through all my old blog posts fixing the links. Comments on other blogs will just have to stay broken. Even if I can find them the time limit for editing has likely expired.

If you know of any links to me here on My Opera on your own blog you will have to check and update those as well.

Just to clarify you need to change

Mickeyjoe_irl

to

Mickeyjoe-Irl

Sorry for the inconvenience.