It’s a site where I’ll be posting about the ‘positive’ aspects of Ireland. It will help me to develop my interest in Irish history and in writing about the uniqueness of everything Irish.

Call it a chronicle of sorts … an annals of Ireland.

I’ll be developing sites as sub domains of the main site … based on what I blog about.

But I need a tagline before I progress ….

I don’t want to reveal the domain address yet because it’s not ready to be revealed. I have just uploaded a theme and I need to customise it first.

For example the tagline here is to do with being ‘The Voice of the Irish People’.

I need to come up with an appropriate sentence to go with the site.

I’m also setting up categories for the site so suggestions here would be great too e.g. History, Politics, Art, Literature, Music, Education, Myths & Folklore, Gaeilge  and so on …

It won’t be a site for bitching … it will be a site for appreciating!

I’ll do my bitching here!

(But I will link to the appreciating site from here though!)

I’ll also be looking for post suggestions and would even appreciate guest writers/posters to write about something Irish that they appreciate.

Post suggestions, mini appreciation sites, photos, stories etc would be appreciated

(Edit: Except of course this one appears normal when I checked it …. duh … go figure that!)

Everything is in bold writing.

(Posts are bold, Random Quote is bold, Page List is bold, Recent Comments are bold, Categories are bold, Recent Posts are bold, Blogroll is bold, Tags are bold and even the writing in the footer is bold …. aaagh).

Yet, when I go into an individual post, it’s back to normal.

Or when I click on ‘Next Page’ (at the bottom of the page) it’s back to normal on the next page!

This all happens in Firefox.

It looks ok in Internet Explorer.

How does my site look to you?

Do you see everything in bold on the homepage?

You might have noticed an increase in ads here …. the poor old blog is getting a right old mash up in experimentation!

I’ve found a cool plugin that allows me add videos to my site.

Check it out on the videos page!

On page one I like:

• Discover Ireland … an ad I know but I love the music ….. and the scenery!
• The Chieftains – Women Of Ireland (Mná na h-Éireann)
• Metallica – Whiskey In The Jar (Dublin Ireland, 2006) …. good man Phil!

And page two:

• Luke Kelly Song For Ireland ( slide show) …. an amazing singer … Rest in Peace Luke.

I’ll stop there ….

If you’re interested the plugin is called tubepress.

I like the theme I have but perhaps it’s time to look for another one. The current theme has been up awhile and WordPress has been updated a few times since I installed it and the two may not be fully compatible with eachother.

So …. it’s another weekend of experimentation. I’m even considering moving the blog to another server to see if it will make any difference to its loading time.

Again …. dear readers (and ladies of the harem) bear with me as I mess up this blog again!

x x x  …. just to keep my harem going!

I did a bit of digging …… thankfully I found it fairly quickly.

Try it Grannymar ……

General question for y’all ….. is my site slow loading when you access it? It takes ages here to load and even longer when I click refresh.

Just wondering if my reinstall created more problems than solved them.

If you’re not on it, it’s either I’ve forgotten to put you on or you haven’t asked me/given me permission to add you.

You know where I am!

I’d be grateful if you would comment to this post and tell me what your ip is (you can email it to me if you don’t want to put it into a comment).

My email address is paddy bloggit [at} gmail . com (No spaces and replace the [at] with @

You can check your ip here:

What’s my IP address?