I’ve waxed lyrical here and on the twitter device (among other places) about the fact that it is a long held belief of mine that cars are, for the most part, utterly useless creatures in a city. Sitting in traffic jams listening to mediocre radio while you commute to/from work in a tin box that [...]
Following on from my description of Dublin as if it were Hoth from last week, I write this post today with a calm Spring-like air over Dublin. It’s a bit chilly, but not cold or freezing by any standards. The snow has gone and the roads are back to operational standards. However, since the snow [...]
I haven’t talked about it here on the blog before but I thought I would take this opportunity provided by the bad Irish weather, and the even worse ability of Irish people to adapt to said weather to discuss my project. The opportunity provided, by the way, is that an exam scheduled for today has [...]
I’m a student in Dublin Institute of Technology, and around this time of year, students preparing to graduate from their courses usually get given access to graduate fares and talks by various companies. In Ireland this usually boils down to a few major corporations and a general free-for-all with stands and the like. Microsoft held [...]
Twitter has evolved from a small micro-chasm of community-based blogger nattering to a huge massive global movement towards open communication akin to SMS texting. It keeps evolving, too, with the recent addition of GPS tagging tweets and lists to group together twitterers with similar interests in your own follow-list. And today, I was made aware [...]
