D U R C A N . N E T » random http://durcan.net/blog Living life one photo at a time Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:40:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bacara Resort, Santa Barbara – Watch out for the TAR! http://durcan.net/blog/2010/09/07/bacara-resort-santa-barbara-watch-out-for-the-tar/ http://durcan.net/blog/2010/09/07/bacara-resort-santa-barbara-watch-out-for-the-tar/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:38:04 +0000 declan! http://durcan.net/blog/2010/09/07/bacara-resort-santa-barbara-watch-out-for-the-tar/

Bacara resort, originally uploaded by Declan!.

My mother flew into town to see my son and to give Rose and I a night off. So we decided to to go to The Bacara Resort in Santa Barbara. We finally had a good nights sleep, and it was a nice birthday present for Rose. The resort and spa was beautiful, and the service was impeccable.

The one thing I could not believe was that the beach was covered in oil and tar!!!!!!!!!! Anyone walking barefoot on the beach had to scrub their feet to remove the tar. Apparently the Santa Barbara channel has been seeping tar for a few hundred years! So the unfortunate side effect of this is that besides the tar on the beach, the air didn’t smell very fresh. Reminded me of someone paving blacktop on a driveway.

http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?id=2603

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2007/09/

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Sunset from my balcony 8/11/10, originally uploaded by Declan!.

Not a bad view from my balcony!

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Mommy and Conor…ppffffttt!, originally uploaded by Declan!.

Had a great Memorial day this past weekend! Conor is getting big!

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]]> http://durcan.net/blog/2010/04/01/la-love/feed/ 0 Conor going “Bananas” http://durcan.net/blog/2010/03/27/conor-going-bananas/ http://durcan.net/blog/2010/03/27/conor-going-bananas/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:51:16 +0000 declan! http://durcan.net/blog/?p=204 We fed our son Conor Bananas for the first time. He went loved it and went “Bananas”!

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Lavaman Triathlon, originally uploaded by Declan!.

Rose and I are officially signed up for the Malibu Triathlon on September 12th, 2010! Time to start training!

There’s only 185 days left for training!

http://www.nauticamalibutri.com/

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spam cake

Originally uploaded by debbiedoescakes

I’ve been forwarding my personal email to Gmail for a few years now. Google’s anti-spam has been pretty amazing. Lately I’ve been noticing Russian spam getting through. I couldn’t create a filter based upon charset, but found another solution which seems to work great so far:

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2009/05/13/filter-spam-by-language-in-gmail/

Creating a Russian-language filter in Gmail:

1. Click “Create Filter” located at the top of your Inbox
2. In the “Has the words:” field, enter: lang:Russian
3. Select “Delete it” within the Action List, and (if you have existing Russian Spam) select: “Apply Filter to Conversations below”
4. Click “Create Filter”

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good song from the latest commercial for the Bruno movie

]]> http://durcan.net/blog/2009/06/29/176/feed/ 0 Ironman – The Distance http://durcan.net/blog/2009/06/02/169/ http://durcan.net/blog/2009/06/02/169/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:53:14 +0000 declan! http://durcan.net/blog/2009/06/02/169/ Ironman – The Distance

I think 2011 will be the year I do an Ironman!

]]> http://durcan.net/blog/2009/06/02/169/feed/ 0 Horrible way to fix a cable run http://durcan.net/blog/2008/12/20/horrible-way-to-fix-a-cable-run/ http://durcan.net/blog/2008/12/20/horrible-way-to-fix-a-cable-run/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:02:35 +0000 declan! http://durcan.net/blog/2008/12/20/horrible-way-to-fix-a-cable-run/


Horrible way to fix a cable run

Originally uploaded by Declan!

I have a task at work to get a vendor to remove the telecommunication cabling from a floor we are giving back to the landlord. As were were doing the walk-through I came across the quality work done by a vendor many years ago.

Looks like they accidentally cut one of the cable runs, and decided to do a ghetto fix instead of running a new cable….what freaking crap!

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