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The first annual Best Awards Awards – Enter now!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

There are hundreds of them – for playing football, making movies, writing books, long distance spitting, even being a politician. You name it and there is an award for it. A real money spinner if there ever was one. Way back some professional event organiser thought to himself “hey, no one’s ever ran an award [...]

Homepages – Tales From The Irish Blogosphere

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Homepages – Tales From The Irish Blogosphere, a collection of 100% pork-free stories and photographs by 50 Irish bloggers and compiled by Catherine Brodigan is now available to order on Lulu.com. At just €14 and with all proceeds going to Focus Ireland (a charity providing support for the homeless) it’s unbeatable value and for a [...]

New blog-togs

Friday, December 5th, 2008

So there I was happily upgrading to WordPress 2.7 RC1 and playing around with the new dashboard when up on the windowsill popped Hitler, the cat. Well, whatcha think? Happy? It’s okay I suppose. Not sure I’m happy though. It seems very cluttered compared to the old dashboard. Ha! You’re the one to talk about [...]

Search and you shall not find

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Okay. Okay. So the muse has failed me and I have to resort to posting a list of the search terms that brought (disturbed) people to my blog. Best I can do for the moment. Sorry. “Tempus fugit phonetic” – How much more phonetic can you get? “Nais ass” (via the Lithuanian Department of Agriculture) [...]

Coming clean with the bath

Monday, September 15th, 2008

The holiday makers arrived home from not-Galway at the weekend. I made sure their cat and Gold Finger, the fish, looked well fed and content (using drugs and a stomach pump). They knew their bath was to be used for a project at some point, but they didn’t know it already had been used. In [...]

A changed Ireland

Monday, September 8th, 2008

On Saturday evening I enjoyed a drink and a chat with two old friends I’d never met before. The Internet’s like that. Just after they left I was joined by another old friend. One I had met before. But not for years. Not even on the Internet. He’s not like that. Which is a pity [...]

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