I’m not sure that code locking my phone was such a good idea. I’m getting sick of having to unlock it every time I want to check something on it.
in really good news, however, I got my new passport yesterday. The photograph sucks but I don’t care. It’s valid which is all I care [...]
Yesterday I bought an iPad. I want you to know I did a lot of research into this before I actually went and handed over my credit card. For a while, it looked like you were going to lose out to Amazon’s Kindle but the deal breaker was you have colour and Kindle doesn’t. And [...]
Amongst the things which I have a more than passing interest in lately are infographics. Most people use simple graphs and stuff but once in a while you’ll see an interestingly designed one that sticks the information it contains straight into permanent storage in your memory. So I’m interested in how they are designed. There [...]
Yesterday I left Dublin at lunchtime and got back 11 hours later. In the meantime, I was in west Clare.
According to my car, I drove 600 km plus. Yes, it was long and yes, I heard some songs 2 and 3 times on my iPod. And I paid something like six tolls, did six motorways [...]
There was a time I used to swim 1600 metres. It’s quite a while ago. More recently, there was a time I used to swim 1000m. That was six months ago.
Today I managed – and that’s with an interesting definition of “managed” 625m. Total. In sets of 25m. 25×25. I’m not proud of that. I [...]
I did that because my internet connection varied between “erratic” and “completely unworkable” for much of this afternoon. It’s hard to do work on a website when you can’t actually access the thing.
I liked it. I didn’t get too much of a slagging, mainly because E wasn’t there. That’ll change during the week. At least [...]
The Irish Driving Instructors Association reckons the RSA’s required minimum driving lessons of 12 hours is unworkable according to the Irish Time’s Breaking news section. I’m not entirely sure what their problem is unless it’s that they’d like the figure to be higher than 12 – they reckon it’d take 75 hours to cover the [...]
I can’t claim it’s the most useful item in my kitchen. If I had, however, it would be.
In its absence, however, I bought a new toy last week. I bought one of those wooden stands for recipe books. It took some consideration; I have thought about them before; but this time, temptation stood up, trashed [...]
I took a trip to the antiques fair in Clontarf this morning. My shopping list included 1) bobbins for lace making (natch) and possibly 2) some nice shot glasses (also natch).
It’s not that I wander around the place wondering what will be worth millions in 20 years’ time but that I have the right attitude. [...]
I can’t. For various reasons, over the years, when I have gone to donate blood, I have not been allowed because I had cold sores, colds, lived in the UK at the wrong time, and more recently, anaemia.
So me and blood donation doesn’t happen, and yes, I feel bad about it.
I have family members and [...]