About

To be perfectly honest, I often fail miserably when it comes to a formal introduction of any kind, so excuse me if it looks like shit! Or if it’s out-of-date…

Me, Myself and I

In case you haven’t already figured it out by now, I’m TheChrisD. First name Chris, which can be gathered from the tag. Last name, you really care about, but it’s Daly. Hence why you sometimes see me about as Chris “TheChrisD” Daly.

Living in Dunboyne, in the culchie county of Meath, in the not-so-emerald isle of Ireland. Numerous Wikipedia links FTMFW.

When it comes to listing interests/activities, I always find it hard to remember what exactly it is I do. Including, but not limited to: PC gaming, 360 gaming, DS gaming, web design, web surfing, forum posting, site administration and a lot of other tech-y stuff. Yes, I don’t get out very much, except when moving setup location.

The Site

After a bit of web digging, I eventually managed to conclude that I started to have my own personal website towards the end of 2005, on the old MSN Spaces (now Windows Live Spaces). However, back then I didn’t always have as much online time, so updates and posts were few and far between. I still kept at it though.

Towards the start of 2007, I was looking for other ways to have a website. By this time, I had bought some real hosting with Bravenet to host an attempted online gaming website for a particular online game that shall not be mentioned. So, on the 12th of January 2007, my WordPress blog came to be! At that time, I was posting more out of the “cool, I’ve got this new blog I just put on my hosting” enthusiasm, hence why some of the early posts are complete random crap. Serious crap. Not even worthy to wipe my bum with if they were to be printed out on toilet paper, sort of crap.

Baby Bear

“Baby Bear” (also known as ‘petit bebe’, lit. ‘little bear’) is the name of a white/cream teddy bear which was sold by Marks & Spencer circa 1999.

Back then there were originally 5 of the basic bears. Since then the “family” has been reduced to 3 basic bears (Right Babe, Wrong Babe, Clean Babe) and two slightly more “better condition” basic bears found on eBay in 2008 (Cream Babe), and 2010 (Pudding Babe).

The family is also augmented with a larger bear with a bell inside (Mommy Bear), three small bears with a velcro strap that you can wrap round your wrist (the Bobbys), two rattling bears with holes in their middles for grip (the Polo Bears), and a teddy rabbit from some other place who is treated as the adopted sister of the family (Baby Bunny).

It is unknown whether Marks and Spencer still make these teddy bears, but they haven’t been seen stocked since 2001, so presumably the family is irreplaceable. Unless they decide to make them again, which is highly unlikely. Or more are found on eBay, which seems to be happening more often lately.

More information about the bears, including their little blog of sorts, can be found at http://www.iambabybear.net.