John Ó'Ríordáns Blog

I miss Germany. Driving on roads with no speed limit is exactly as much fun as it sounds. This is what the Police over there have to keep up with people.

Found President’s Choice Irish Rashers in Loblaws! Yummy.

Went to the amusement park yesterday where they had a Halloween Theme. Good fun. And even though it was a long weekend I wasnt drinking.
I must be getting old.

Had a great time in Denver watching the UFC. There was a few people I knew around which made it much more fun.

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Anybody ever been on the express walkway in Toronto Airport? I’d so much fun I nearly went back to do it again! This video doesn’t do the speed justice.

I was in Toronto Airport yesterday waiting for my bag and I saw this sign over the carousel. It tells people that heavy or awkward bags are available for pick up else where. I had a look at the icons and I can figure out most of them but the last one is giving me trouble. Any suggestions?

So far it seems to be;
# Fragile
# Bicycle
# Buggy
# Skis
# 1960′s Pimp

It finally happened. I sat in the passenger seat of my car and did the “Where’s the wheel” hand flex. Damn left hand drives.

Does this sound like you? Saturday night is looming. You’re looking to let you hair down. But the match is on at 10:00am in the morning. You know if you go out for “one or two” there is no way you’ll be able to get up and drag yourself to the pub to watch the match. And the funds are low so you don’t want to pay 20 bucks at the pub. Oh if only the TV could tune RTÉ or RTÉ Player worked outside of Ireland! Or maybe you really wanted to see the Rose of Tralee live when abroad. I don’t judge.

Well using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) you can fool RTÉ Player into thinking you are in Ireland. Or any country in the world in fact. And it couldn’t be simpler. You download the VPN Client onto your laptop, select the country you want to appear to be and in that’s it. Simple!

How does it work? Well VPN guys have a server in Dublin that will go to RTÉ Player and get the match for you. Then it sends it over to Canada to your computer.

An added advantage is that you can select the UK to watch Soccer on BBC Player, or USA to use US Netflix (which is much better than Canadian Netflix) or whatever else might be restricted in Canada (such as downloading torrents of your favourite shows). It can fool any software into thinking you are in a different country.

A quick search online give you a number of options such as surfbouncer.com, vpntraffic.com, overplay.net or ukproxyserver.co.uk. All of these allow you to pretend you are in Ireland for between 5 and 10 bucks a month.

You’ll never have to miss another episode of Republic of Telly again. And it’ll be great to hear Hook and Pope arguing during the World Cup.

I was pucking around a ball in the Hurling Pitch in Centennial Park in Toronto and caught my Hurley on the ground and cracked it! Oh no!

So I went to Rona yesterday and got myself a vice grips, some wood glue and masking tape. It’s drying outside at the moment. I guess now I have to play the waiting game. I really hope it works because I don’t see many Hurley makers around here.