BBQ at McQuillan Manor in 32 seconds …… and a great chance to chat about Gawker
Posted: July 12, 2010 Filed under: Apple, Belfast, Do something Now is good, events, Explorer Scouts, Interesting, Internet, Northern Ireland, Personal posts, Uncategorized, Venture Scouts, Web 2.0 | Tags: Apple, gawker, mac os, Mcquillan manor, software Leave a commentGawker is an amazing piece of software for Mac OS that I have just discovered. With very little effort it allows you to put together a short movie of still imagines to track a day of work or an event.
Time lapsed BBQ at McQuillan Manor – 11th July using Gawker from Russell McQuillan on Vimeo.
Aged 16 -18 in Northern Ireland ? Your Country needs you !
Posted: January 25, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentDo you want more say in the big issues affecting your life?
Volunteer for the Youth Panel and help build a new Northern Ireland youth assembly.
http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/youthassembly.htm
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Posted: December 30, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
struggling with my camera memory at Belfast Spendmas
Top Gear Challenge – Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace
Posted: December 29, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: top gear challenge Leave a comment
After the success of our our first top gear challenge, we are going to do it all over again !!
Feb 27th at 9.07am
Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace
First one there wins !!
Teams,
Road cars : Must stick to the speed limits and no sat navs allowed
Public transport : No taxi’s allowed
Plane : No commercial airlines allowed, you are welcome to fly yourself or hire a private jet !
Its on ! Bring it !
Are you up for the challenge ? Are you ready to join the adventure ?
This is an 18 and over event, perfect for leaders or explorers moving into network scouts.
There is further info on Facebook here
And a reg form here
Merry Christmas and Thanks
Posted: December 24, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Merry Christmas Leave a commentTo all my readers,
To all my followers
To all my facebook friends
To all my human friends
To all I have humored, interested, educated and unintentionally offended
To all I have bored with my business and scouting related posts.
And to all I have flamed, I wish you a very Merry Christmas
Thanks for following !!
Here is to 2009, I shall leave you with two videos. The first is an idiot that cannot drive and the second is an ad that touches my heart every year !
Russell
Belfast Spendmas – A documentation process
Posted: December 18, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: alaninbelfast, belfast photography, camera, Christmas, christmas shopping, documentation, flickr, Open Coffee, Open Coffee Lisburn, rob elkin, shopping in belfast, twitter Leave a comment
This Saturday a bunch of us are getting together to hits the shops in Belfast but we won’t be spending any money……..
The plan is to photograph and document for future generations the busiest shopping day of the year in the capital city of Belfast. It’s a great free event put together using the power of twitter by Rob Elkin
Alan in Belfast writes about the event in his blog, his years of blogging about events and politics give him a polished writing style that I could only aspire to, so I suggest you read in more detail about the event over at alaninbelfast
The one thing I will add however it that it never fails to amaze me how much the power of the interwebs has grown over the years, this event was pulled together from nothing, a simple message on twitter at around 140 key strokes and a bunch of replies later we have an event any event management company would be envious off.
Dear Santa
Posted: December 7, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: dear santa Leave a commentDear Santa,
I’m assuming you cannot get me the following
1. A fully pimped our off road defender
2. A mark 1 golf GTI
3. A mark 1 205 GTI
4. A mark 1 1961 cooper S
5. A Hi-Lux pick up
6. A GT3
7. A range rover sport, any year.
8. A date with Richard Hammond
So in absense of the above can I please have the following
1. Clarksons newest DVD
2. Top Gear uncovered DVD
3. A pair of combats for scouts (loads of pockets)
4. A one cup coffee decanter
Thank you, that is all
Russell
ps, ive been a good boy this year
Open Coffee Lisburn : Nearly a year on
Posted: December 7, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: lisburn daltons, open coffe belfast, Open Coffee Lisburn 2 CommentsIt was last January that myself, Andrew Gribben and Simon McCartney decided that enough was enough and Lisburn should to earn its place on the global Open Coffee movement and start our own in Lisburn, days later we had our first meeting in Cafe Vic Ryn on the Moira road and it was born.
Things have changed alot over the last year, more and more people are coming to the meetings and with every new person the dynamic changes ever so slightly but always in a good way.
What started out as nearly a purely techy meeting, now has a good mix of tech, business, photography, news, politics and humour. As ever no agenda is set and who ever can make it shows up and the conversation flows from there.
Meteor projected Christmas advertising
Posted: November 19, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentThe picture is hard to see but I noticed this on my way home from work today.
It’s just your standard MNO advert about coverage, it was broadcast from a white van across the street and at first I thought it was a rather expensive way to advertise a message but the more I thought about it the more it made sense.
The ad was on a wall that was very noticable to drivers stuck in traffic on lower baggot st heading out of Dublin. The prefect location for that time of day but also then it could be moved in the morning to catch people coming into town then in the evening as people are creature of habit and generally drive the same route each day they can target a different location the next evening.
As the building was empty I would imagion that there was no cash paid for the site so the only ongoing costs are the maintainence costs for the projector and the hourly rate of the van driver.
Given the huge cost of hiring multiple billboard sites this form of advertising actually makes more than prefect sense.
Hope to see more of it !
Russell McQuillan
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