Last night the load on the server that hosts kieranoshea.com went critical, so much so in fact that the server stopped serving web pages, and access was extremely limited. At this stage I have no idea what caused the high loads (and indeed is still causing slightly higher than normal loads), but I’m posting this so you are aware of why some of my network of sites went down last night, and that at this stage, nothing is certain with respect to uptime.

I was bored today, so as I was glancing around my room for inspiration I noticed my logitech webcam sitting on the shelf, unconnected since I moved in. Well, nuts to that I thought, and hooked it up to my Linux box. An hour or so later I had sorted out drivers, a video feed and an application to create a new image every few seconds on my apache2 webserver, running on Lara. The result is a webcam image in a pop-up window that self-updates every 3 seconds and you can view it right now, simply click the “View Webcam” link in the navigation bar.

All I have to do now is find somewhere to point it that is both interesting, and doesn’t cause me to live in big brother hell. Suggestions on a post card…..

I have just uploaded some photos to the site that I took earlier. The sunshine was just too inviting, and I got some interesting shots of some of the buildings and stretches of canal around Clarence dock.

Photos are here

I have also updated my Radio page at long last with downloads of a few of my shows (hosted on Lara of course) and some photos of me and some of my past guests on air. Enjoy

I have recently been in reciept of an e-mail or two questioning my motives for making blog postings in the past. My reasons for this are simple; I want to ensure that events I blog about are posted in the order in which they happen, however the time I have available to me to write blogs is often quite varied and so means I have to set the time stamp of some of my postings to be in the past in order that they fit inbetween the rest of my posts accordingly.

In terms of how I choose the time and date stamp, I try to pick the date and time such that if the time had have been available to me at the time, that is when I would have written and posted that particular blog. Hope this helps some confused readers!

I have had numerous calls to publish a page with all the quotes on that come up in my random generator. After keeping many people in suspense, I have now done this.

Simply click the link under the random quote on the right, “View all quotes” and off you will go to the page with all of them on. I add to them every day practically, so they are always changing. Hope you enjoy them!

Welcome to my new site! The design is now finished, and content is slowly being moved over from the old one. Worthless content is of course being deleted

The site now sports a blog as well as all the other bits I had before, and is much faster for me to update, so you should see more updates too.

I have (or will have) a variety of blog catagories for my musings and personal thoughts and takes on life in general. Feel free to leave your comments under any of the postings you wish. I have to validate them, but I will let them on the site as long as they are clean - criticism is as welcome as praise or counter-points

Above all, enjoy!