I’ve been thundering around trying to make a decision about this for one year. I own a 80cm x 60cm frame.

Hopefully sometime next week a print of this is going to materialise in my post so that I can put this into it. I’ve been arguing with myself over what to put in the frame [...]

I now have so many websites it’s not funny any more.
As this is the one where I post stuff that doesn’t fit any more, I’m going to wax lyrical about a piece of software called SketchBook. I have two versions of it. 1) the version for the iPhone and 2) a trial version for the [...]

Have you ever wondered how computers work? And have you asked someone?
A lot of grown-ups do not understand how computers work, so I suppose if you did ask someone, they’ll have told you something helpful like “I don’t know love, why don’t you ask Daddy” or “Computers are very clever. That’s how they work” or, [...]

I decided yesterday to go to Galway for the afternoon. It was driven by a few things, such as an urgent desire to see the Atlantic Ocean and, more importantly, to escape the harsh reality of newspapers that are bemoaning the property crash, which the Independent attached more importance to than the lacklustre documentation coming [...]

BBC 2 has just re-run the first in a five part series called – I think – “Wonders of the Solar System”. It’s presented by a guy called Professor Brian Cox – the Professor seems to turn up in every reference to it so I’ll include it here.
Anyway I missed it on Sunday owing to [...]

Well I stayed up listening to a Short History of Almost Everything via audiobook last night so wound up sleeping in this morning. So I slept in this morning.
Then I went on this.

although to be fair, I did it during the day. It’s about 50m high at the apex and it costs 6E which I [...]

Together with some of the people grouped together via Photowalk.ie, I was in Trim County Meath yesterday and was fortunate enough to have a guided tour of the castle. It was fascinating.
I’ve long been of the opinion that living in a castle without underfloor heating was probably no great sign of luxury; but the added [...]

I was walking past the Palais des Thés on Wicklow Street in Dublin. I was rather surprised to see it there; hadn’t realised it had opened but was quite happy to discover it had. Despite being a nation of teadrinkers, Ireland is a lousy place to buy tea from. I have historically spent a lot [...]

Except this year.
About 15 years ago I was teaching English as a language assistant in France to a bnch of teenagers. The classes consisted of games and then, finally a song. Occasionally I let them choose the song.
On one occasion they chose Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine. I don’t know [...]

Inspired by this Ten Beaches thing which means nothing to me because I’ve never been to any of these beaches, I have decided to do my own.
In the order that I can track them down in my flickr account, here are, randomly, ten beaches that I love or have loved.
Inchydoney, County Cork, Ireland

Nudey Beach, Fitzroy [...]