Last weekend great plans were made in sunny Clifden to go climbing in Glendalough this weekend. Unfortunately the more typical Irish weather has returned so they will have to be scrubbed. Ah well.

Ciaran was nice enough to present us with some steak knives at the weekend. These are for all members of the Munster Urbane Friends Fraternity (MUFF) that are in good standing. But in order to qualify I needed a (long overdue) moniker.

The decision was made that “The Knave” will henceforth be used. The official
definition is
   1. An unprincipled, crafty fellow.
   2..
       1. A male servant.
       2. A man of humble birth.
   3. Games. See jack.

Of course Ciaran has his take. Its Knave as “a Knowingly Notorious Avowed Voracious E-mail user….”

I have continued to potter on the site. The writings pages are now converted. Looking at what is there its all a bit dated. I think I will have to drop a lot of the material, but I have ideas for new stuff I want to put up. I am in the process of writing the others pages at the moment. This (imaginatively named) page links to the few other pages I have up. My problem at the moment is deciding on a signature image for the top left corner. This may be the time that I play with the GIMP and see how you go about generating a new image. Maybe a Jack of Clubs? Watch this space.

Well there went another Easter. And a pretty good one it was too. I was west in Clifden for the weekend celebrating Donogh’s 30th. As well as the usual late night drinking, steak BBQs and bad talk we were up Carrot Ridge on Saturday and I made two attempts to get surfing. Not much success there though. Ballyconeely is not really my sort of beach. It seems to be more of an experienced surfer place and I am not one of them. Still it was good to get in the water. And the superb weather (July type sunshine up until yesterday) made the 5 hour trip into the west well worth it!

It looks like it will be Kerry for the May bank holiday. Excellent, as its been far too long since I last walked in the Reeks. The brave talk now is of the Reeks walk and climbing Howling Ridge. We shall have to see.

www.sliabh.net is to be the new home for my web pages and my new address. The pages are currently at this location. But as you can see they are showing their age and could do with some spring cleaning. Of course having your own domain name means you get to grab a nice custom email address. The new one replaces seamusk@eircom.net. If you are a friend of Seamus you will have it already. And if not contact me at the old one and I will pass it to you.

The Plan
The plan is to move all my existing web content to this location. My experience with the old site was that it wasn’t easy enough to maintain. And I heave learned what are the parts that I update most often and that people seem interested in looking at.

As I move pages the sort of changes I will be making include dumping old and daft content. The graphics and look and feel will be made cleaner and more consistent. It will all be based on this white background look. And for ease of maintenance I will use server side include files wherever possible.

As well as adding content I may stick various other bits and pieces here on the front page. I am neutral on the whole blogging idea. So I don’t expect this to be one. But from time to time there may be something worth looking at here