The Sleeping Warrior Blog

Yep..it seems we’ve picked up major awards for the TurfNet series last year.
Well done to Jon Kiger and Peter McCormick who came up with the idea for the series.
Jon was at the ceremony in Puerto Rico to pick them up yesterday (May 14th). I hope he remembered to thank God, his Mum, the Guinness and Smithwicks breweries, and the Full Irish in his acceptance speeches?
We had a blast shooting and producing the series last year…as we did on this years series too. The great thing about this series is the friends we’ve made along the way and the craic we’ve had doing it. Thanks Jon and Peter!

Here’s the Gongs and plaques etc.

From

Just finished and decompressed after 10 days on the road shooting the TurfNet Goes to Ireland 2009 series. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, this one was bugging me. Skype doesn’t support Firewire…or so they tell you. If like me you’ve got a studio full of connected Firewire cameras and don’t like the idea of using the poxy wee Tesco webcam for Skype video conversations then try this. Splitcamera Read the rest of this entry »

OK…always being asked this question from outside Ireland and seeing as people don’t seem to read the whole of the other post I’ll clear it up here. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyway..poor old Sligo. It waited all that time for a nice retail park and the beloved Brit high street stores to come and once they get here the criminal Yanks go and mess up the world economy and the shops shut as quickly as they opened. Not that I’ll be shedding a tear. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been scrummaging around Dunnes Stores lately with my phone in hand to take a pic of some of the price tags on their goods here in the Republic. It seems that they have made two cock-ups. Firstly that they printed their labels back to front so they can’t tear off the sterling price and secondly that they treat their customers here like imbeciles incapable of doing basic arithmetic on the exchange rate. Read the rest of this entry »

As I was watching Al Jazeera the other night some guy reminded me of something so obvious that I nearly dropped my Lebanese bread drizzled with Palestinian oil on my lap. It seems to be a fact that the Western Media have not only ignored, but downright censored lately. Read the rest of this entry »

OK..here’s a rant about banks, so I suppose that it will get lost in the other millions of posts on the subject.
Now, here’s some scary information that I have had from the horse’s mouth through the back door. I won’t say which banks this comes from for fear of the bastards having a go at me and getting other people in trouble too. Read the rest of this entry »

Caoimhe at 4 months with her mother’s rosy cheeks..

From Xmas day

This is my favourite gripe at the present time. Now..not only are food manufacturers content with screwing up the planet but they are victimising those of us whose fingers and eyes are not what they used to be.  Read the rest of this entry »