This morning, over breakfast, because I was alone, I happened on a debate between Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Brian Lucey and Stephen Kinsella. Those links are to their respective twitter accounts because that’s where the debate – on the surface at least – was happening. Ferdinand also blogs here and Stephen here.
Some declaration of interest: Ferdinand [...]
I got a bus to work this morning. This is because yesterday, it snowed quite heavily and although this morning wasn’t too much more than it had been when I went to bed last night, I hadn’t enjoyed the drive home and had no desire to try it again this evening.
One of the key reasons [...]
Thud was in my desk at work for about 3 years before I finally got around to bringing it home again. I read it last night.
It’s a City Watch book so it should be right up my alley because it features Vimes whom I love and adore. But something left me weirdly weirded out about [...]
Here is what I use twitter for.
keeping in touch with some friends
keeping an eye on photography developments
picking up special offers from a nunber of companies including Irish Rail
keeping tabs on transport news via the AA, LiveDrive, IrishRail and a list of airlines too long for you to pick up
weather forecasts from IrishWeatherOnLine
picking up free Photoshop [...]
Dublin Bus need to brush up on their emergency planning. What happened today was nothing short of really disappointing.
It’s now nearly 8.15pm and Dublin Bus’s services have stopped running because of the inclement weather. I can’t necessarily complain about this because I’ve been out in it, and I chose to get public transport today because [...]
Thunderstorms stand out in my life. I remember, for example, the one in Bavaria where I sheltered under a bridge when I was walking to work, aged 18. Then there was the one when I was 22 and living in Brittany and the flashes were so bright they confused the lightmetres on the street lights [...]
When I was moving house a few months ago, much against our will but that’s rental in Ireland for you, the estate agent who was effecting the rehousing, in response to a question about the lack of a dishwasher in the new house said “You’ll just have to do a bit more work”. I resented [...]
A lot of people are very angry with RTE because they cut off a press conference from Government Buildings in the middle of a questions and answers session. It was a pity to some extent because a TV3 journalist took Brian Cowen to the cleaners emotional. Said what a lot of people were feeling.
A lot [...]
So Apple revved up about a large scale announcement during the week. Most people were wondering if it would turn out to be a streaming service and apparently there is some code in iTunes to cater for this if you look very hard (but I’m not the kind of nerd who has time to do [...]
About 15 years ago, when I was living in Germany and going through various work related hells, I came to the conclusion that life was a bit like a sine wave. Ups and downs. And that no matter how bad things got, there was always a point that things started on an upward trend again.
That [...]