Congratulations to Paul Tarpey from Cheebah who wrote an amazing guest post on the On The Record Blog about his project to chart the history of the Irish Dance Scene. This post is epic and the love and passion for the project is quite evident. Give us a bell on contact (at) Awards.ie for your piece of glass and phoney dodathingy.

The Secret Fire. Congratulations to K8 the Gr8 for an inspiring and uplifting blog post. One of the best ones I’ve read all year and I think most others would feel the same way too.

20 GOTO 10.

Congrats to Fústar for this wonderful nostalgic piece of geekery:

After pausing for a moment or two to decide how to proceed, my father (I think it was he) suggested I “ask it a question”. This, I cheerfully admit, didn’t strike me as too absurd an idea. It was the mid 80s (in Ireland) remember – a time when home computers carried potent whiffs of the techno-exotic and the quasi-magical. In other words, we genuinely thought they knew stuff.

“What is the capital of Ethiopia?”, typed I.

“Syntax Error”, replied Arnold.

Hmmm.

Several hundred syntax errors later and a disillusioned pall began to fall over the family.

The 2009 Blog Awards are taking place in Cork in the Cork Airport International Hotel.

The venue has been booked for February 21st 2009. There’s a special room rate of €100 per room or €55 per person sharing if you mention the Blog Awards. Places are apparently going quickly. Here’s one pic of the hotel as you see it from Arrivals at the Airport.

Here’s David Maybury inside the hotel. Yup, that’s a real car. Inside the hotel.

So get the earlybird prices now!