John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

Can you the believe the guy actually survived this! Lucky!

The man reportedly was speeding at more than 100 mph when he hit a guardrail, went airborne and slammed into an overpass. The car broke into three pieces and threw him from the wreckage. The dashboard-mounted camera in a police cruiser caught the spectacular crash.

I’ve been doing a couple of sites for a Friend of mine who also happens to be my MMA instructor. RebelMMA and KenHealyFitness. They aren’t so much blogs as advertising websites. As a result I wanted to make the static pages jump out, whereas the blogging function should be hidden a little further into the site. I still wanted to use WordPress though as it’s already running on my server. So I had a dig around and found it was actually easy to move the blog away from the front page. Now on those sites when you vist them you get a static front page and you have to navigate to the blog.

Check out the steps on the WordPress site.

I’m trying to book my NCT online and the stupid website doesn’t work. It says there are no free days in any centre in Ireland for the next 10 years. Why have online booking if it doesn’t work? If it was a private company it’d be out of business. Stuppid inept public sector.

I was at MMA training this morning at 12. I’d say it was my first time training on a Saturday since I was 16. Great craic though.

I was reading this great article explaining why people enjoy fighting so much. Maybe that’s why I don’t mind making the effort.

I’m wrecked from training all week so I am going to stay in this weekend. I’m going to save my money, and liver, for Paddy’s Day. Since Lorri is gone home for the weekend I am going to spend some quality time with Call of Duty Modern Warfare II. If anybody wants to join me at any time my gamer tag is thesraid.

In the cinema waiting for the movie to start. I came way to early so I’m playing with my phone.

A picture from my bedroom at the mothers house.

I downloaded the wordpress app for my iPhone today. Now I can easily blog from anywhere. It’s very easy to use and I highly recommend it. Plus now that my blog is linked to buzz and facebook it’s real easy to post everywhere.

With Google Buzz I’ve been able to add my blog entries to my updates. I’ve decided to do the same in Facebook. So hopefully this entry will appear in Facebook. If you’ve a blog and you want to do the same the steps are available at http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=818

Finished my laser eye surgery last week. The procedure was very easy. It didn’t hurt and wasn’t uncomfortable. Pretty much the first thing they did was put a vacuum over the eye to make the cut. After that I couldn’t really see anything so it wasn’t weird or anything. If anybody is thinking of going for it they shouldn’t worry. I was very nervous going in, in fact I was shaking. But it’s so easy. The only thing was I jumped when the laser fired. It’s very loud. However the procedure was much easier than the dentist or anything like that. If they told me I had to go back tomorrow and do the procedure as well it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

Check out a YouTube video of someone’s surgery. And listen for the laser it’s so loud! Oh and you can smell your eye burning when they fire the laser. Very cool.

I know it looks uncomfortable but with the local anaesthetic drops they put in you don’t feel a thing!

My vision is much better. In fact I could pretty much see straight after the surgery. However it was a little blurry compared to when I was wearing my contact lenses. But compared to what I could see without lenses it was brilliant. Around 80% of what I used to see with the lenses.

However my vision is still blurry three weeks later. It hasn’t seemed to improve at all since the day after the operation. Everything is kind of blurry and I have slight double vision (what they call ghosting apparently). So I rang the surgeon and asked for an appointment. Which I have tomorrow. I am getting headaches in work straining to see the projector and students computer screens. And I am kind of nervous driving still.

But perhaps it is improving but just too slowly to see. We’ll find out tomorrow.