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 [...]
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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 [...]
@mcawilliams was tweeting yesterday, as per usual. He announced that he needed to come up with something special because in 1000 more tweets he would have hit a huge milestone in his twitterific life: 50,000 tweets broadcast on the service. An epic number by anyone’s standards. So he put the concept of doing something special [...]
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 [...]
Yes, it’s that time of year… again. It’s amazing how this happens every year, right on time. This year, me and the ladyfriend decided to trek around Dublin checking out the various (two) Christmas markets, where lots of people set up stalls to offer their fun wares, from jam to mulled wine and from scarves [...]

