Meant to post this yesterday but forgot. Now I’ve no idea how I came across this but it turns out (if you vote and check the results) that Ireland has the best defence ministry logo ever. EVER. That is, according to a presumably not-terribly-authoritative online poll.
I’ve never seen this logo before but I suppose I [...]
I answered all the questions in that Real Age Clock I del.icio.used (new verb!) a couple of days ago. You put in your real age, give lots of information about your lifestyle and it tells you your real age ie how old your body seems given your way of life.
Now I’m wondering why I bothered. [...]
July 29th, 2007
I could blame the architect who designed the apartment block so that residents could only access the rubbish holding area through the car park. I could blame the security company that installed the swipe card system on the car park gates, or the building management company that omitted to give swipe cards to [...]
My Facebook addiction is ongoing and I’ve been amused by some of the discussions by the Trust Me, I’m A Journalist group. One thread, in particular, I’ve found fascinating. On it, journalists from all over the world have given their top three responses to “I’m a journalist” in social situations.
The conversation demonstrates, once again and [...]
July 22nd, 2007
Florid, port-swigging gentlemen of a certain age, with little or no idea of the reality of modern-day life – such is the stereotype of Irish judges. And it’s not so far from the truth. A report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties found that our judges are almost all white, male, Catholic, [...]
Right, so I’ve been reading loads about Facebook and how it is addictive and how it is THE online networking spot for people like me, who are just that bit too old for MySpace and WAY too old for Bebo.
The thing is, I’m a bit confused about the etiquette of it. Do my Facebook friends [...]
Doing a brief item with Scott Williams on Q102FM around 5 o’clock today. Listen in if you’re in Dublin or on Q102.ie.
While doing some research earlier, I came across this list of anti-war slogans from protests in San Francisco. Some of them are rather clever. My favourites:
War is so last century.
What’s our oil doing under their sand?
Elections, empire, oil, dad.
Let’s bomb Texas; they have oil too.
My parents went to the polls & all I got [...]
I had outing on Neil Prendeville’s show on Cork’s 96FM last week (to discuss that article about Cork - see a few posts ago). More excitingly, I was asked onto The Tubridy Show on RTE Radio 1 this morning. Obviously, I should have mentioned this here before I went on rather than after but I [...]
July 15th, 2007
One of the first things they teach you at journalism school, along with the importance of never throwing away a phone number and never buying your own drinks, is the expression “man bites dog”. If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. If a man bites a dog, that’s certainly worthy of [...]
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