Available from 10am this morning on downloadmusic.ie is the official song of the Irish Olympic Team.

The Official Song For The 2008 Irish Olympic Team has arrived and it’s a fitting tribute to our dedicated athletes representing Ireland on the international stage this Summer. With sumptuous vocals provided by the legendary Clannad singer, Moya Brennan. All profits are dedicated to the development of amateur sports in Ireland.

99 cent well spent. Text music 1358 to 57501 and you’re done. Nice.

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I’ve been an iPhone owner now for almost 4 weeks. One of the things I really love is when I visit a website and they have an iPhone friendly version of the site. It makes the experience of visiting that site so much better.

I was delighted when I discovered an extremely handy plugin for Wordpress that gives iPhone and iPod touch visitors a version of your blog tailored for their device.

The plugin is called WPTouch and it’s by Bravenewcode. Like any other plugin, it was just a matter of uploading it to the plugin directory and then enabling it.  You can see the result below. On the left hand side is what le craic looks like on the iPhone. On the right is what it looks like with the plugin enabled.

The iPhone enabled version of the blog makes viewing and replying to comments a lot easier too. Anyone visiting le craic from a standard browser will always see the standard view.

It’s just one of the sweetest plugins I’ve come across and if you have your own hosted Wordpress blog I don’t know of any reason why you shouldn’t give it a go yourself.

… Guys prefer curves. So stop obsessing about your body shape, and love your shape more.

Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

The full article with accompanying image is here…

I thoroughly endorse these findings. That Tillie one needs to go and eat some pies and have a few pints of guinness

I’m wearing out the soundtrack to Sweeney Todd on my iPhone at the moment. Such a brilliant score. Only downside is that one of the tracks, “Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir” is stuck in my head most of the day. Youtube at the end of the post if you want to be similarly infected.

The song is all about a miracle cure for baldness. Following this song in the film of the stage musical, a shaving contest takes place between Todd and Pirelli (the fraudulent Italian barber). Todd wins the contest easily. I watched Sweeney Todd on DVD and did a review here. Watching the shaving contest made me cringe.

See, I hate shaving. I find it a deeply unpleasant experience. My neck is so sensitive (oh, poor me) that the mere sight of someone else being shaved, provokes a sympathetic reaction. I can feel the beginnings of the post shave soreness. No such reaction to all the necks being slit though – how odd. But that has now changed… I finally discovered a product that doesn’t leave my neck a bloody mess.

It’s called “Ultrashave” and it’s available at 4men.ie. I read about it and thought it sounded too good to be true. I tried it for the first time about 3 weeks ago and I can honestly say that the discomfort I have found with shaving in the past has gone. This is the first time I’ve not experience soreness after shaving. I would advise using a foam with it the first time though. Cost is €18.95 - which is expensive – but for anyone with really sensitive skin, it’s the only way to go. Ladies can use it too, for whatever bits they need to shave.

For me it is like Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir if he produced an elixir for shaving instead of a cure for baldness and it wasn’t made of piss and ink. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention please… Play this at your own risk.

Yes, Taptips.ie is back - posters are up and presumably there is a radio campaign going as well. It’s all in an effort to remind us that water is a precious resource. This is despite the fact that we have 364 1/2 days a year with rain in Ireland. I’m sure someone could come up with statistics about how much water is wasted because of old and decrepit piping, but le craic doesn’t want to go there…

Even though we’re having a rather wet summer, I think it is good to get reminders to conserve water. I hate seeing water being wasted. One of the worst sounds for me is someone running the tap on full blast to wash out a glass, and then just take a small sip. There are far worse offences of course, but this is just my little pet hate.

A brief and random conversation a couple of days ago is what actually prompted me to write this post. Turns out I am a terrible water waster in the shower in the mornings. I’ve always showered the way most people do (presumably). Switch on the shower and keep it on while shower gel is applied etc etc. The proper way to shower (to conserve water), is to switch on the shower, wet the body, switch off shower, lather and then switch shower back on to rinse. This is what I do now and it makes a lot of sense.

Armed with this top tip, you too can become a super water conservationist, just like me! Aren’t you glad you stopped by today? Mother Earth thanks you.

. Photo owned by Darwin Bell and used under a CC License