Category: Life in General


  • Okay I’m officially fuming at the moment. I’ve just spent my entire Saturday working on code instead of relaxing and I just ducked out to the supermarket to get something […]

  • I recently acquired a Sony PS3 (many months after everyone else) and I have to say, impressed? I certainly am. I’ve had a few consoles in recent years, xbox, Wii, […]

  • Happy New Year one and all! Boy do I feel stuffed after Christmas. Nothing a few weeks running won’t sort out anyway. ๐Ÿ˜‰ As for New Year’s resolutions, none I’m […]

  • Oh me, oh my

    Alas poor Joe Dolan has passed away following a sudden illness. Joe, who played for over 40 years on the Irish music scene, was well-known performer who brought great entertainment […]

  • Facts by the RSA

    This evening while driving home from work I was listening to the Last Word on Today FM, listening to Brian Farrell from the RSA talking about decreasing the alcohol limit […]

  • Just a thought

    … a thought that I’m sure I’m not the only person in the world to think this. In these times of “global warming”, concerns about “carbon footprint” and everything else […]

  • Yesterday we saw the tragic funeral of Katy French and also the removal of John Grey who died this weekend following the death of Kevin Doyle also. Such terrible times […]

  • Not a question that I would imagine, surfaces that regularly. Seemingly in India at the moment there is a long running land battle and two of the supposed land owners […]

  • I recently heard some discussion about a new book byย Diarmaid Ferriter, entitled “Judging Dev” that is being forced into the secondary school curriculum this year by the Department of Education. […]

  • It would appear, from this Reg article, that the iPhone-omenon that swept the US earlier this year is not translating similarly across this side of the pond. I have to […]