After some time since writing, and giving a decent blog post, I shall not be surprised if the hits on this post are dire. I’ve abandoned my readers, and so I am rightly ashamed.
In all honesty I have been quite busy. Not so busy I couldn’t have written a blog post, but when you’re busy [...]
In a recent post I talked about how cycling is becoming ever-cool. Exceeding the lycra-clad fitness freaks and Dutch-style heavy roaming commuters, cycling has reached a young(ish) audience with low-maintenance, fast, light and affordable bikes, spurred on in part by the urban culture trend towards fixed gear bikes. The movement, if it is that, isn’t [...]
I’ve waxed lyrical here and on the twitter device (among other places) about the fact that it is a long held belief of mine that cars are, for the most part, utterly useless creatures in a city. Sitting in traffic jams listening to mediocre radio while you commute to/from work in a tin box that [...]
Following on from my description of Dublin as if it were Hoth from last week, I write this post today with a calm Spring-like air over Dublin. It’s a bit chilly, but not cold or freezing by any standards. The snow has gone and the roads are back to operational standards.
However, since the snow went [...]
I haven’t talked about it here on the blog before but I thought I would take this opportunity provided by the bad Irish weather, and the even worse ability of Irish people to adapt to said weather to discuss my project. The opportunity provided, by the way, is that an exam scheduled for today has [...]
