Archive for January, 2008

Blog Awards Long list.

Writes simon on January 31st, 2008

Read More: Uncategorized

The long lists are out and the Dossing Times is mentioned in 3 lists
Best Designed Blog
Best Arts and Culture.
Best Blog Post.  for Top 6 friday hangover types
We probably wouldn’t win any but it is good to be in with some of the best. Always Mulley is the man for putting this together.

Get Booking

Writes ck on January 30th, 2008

Read More: Dublin Film Festival 2008, Movies

So tickets for the Dublin Film Festival were on sale as of midnight last night. I’m providing a link here to the ‘Surprise Film’, which is traditionally a much guarded secret and staff at the launch yesterday were telling me only the festival director knows the identity of the film and has refused to tell […]

Blogroll

Writes simon on January 29th, 2008

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Still working our way through the move. So anyone feeling left out by not being on the blogroll let us know thanks

Why pens work in space

Writes simon on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Science & Technology

There is a famous story about pens. Picture the scene. Russian space agency and NASA or having a chat at some space conference.Lets call the Russian Igor and the American Buddy.
Buddy: We have come up with a great way of solving the writting in space problem. You know how pens don’t write upside down as […]

Dublin Film Festival

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Movies

So I’m still poring over my programme for the Dublin Film Festival and with events good and bad (New Zealand and work respectively) meaning I didn’t get to the Cork Film Festival for 2 years I am looking forward to making the most of this my first year attending the Dublin festival. The programme looks […]

‘Lost’ Return Dates

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Cult, Television

New episodes of ‘Lost’ will reach us pretty promptly after their airing in the States - Sunday 3rd February - Sky 1 and the following night on RTE 2.

New Office Buzzwords

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Random

I don’t know who is worse - the people who give time to coming up with these words (Office Angels Recruitment being the culrpits) or me for repeating them here. Nevertheless they are a bit of silly and apply unfortunately to my day more often than not.
Colleagues debating why a deadline was missed and who […]

Israel apologises to the Beatles

Writes ck on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Israel/Palestine, Random, The Arts

The Israeli Ambassador to the UK, on visiting a Beatles museum in Liverpool handed a letter of apology to the sister of John Lennon for the decision of an Israeli Education Committee to ban a performance by the foursome in Israel in 1965. The decision was made seemingly due to budgetary concerns and also fears the […]

An Apology

Writes simon on January 29th, 2008

Read More: Movies

I am sorry people. I just realized a master peace of music in movies that I missed. I am sorry. So here it is.Enjoy. The helicopter attack from Apoclypse Now. One of if not the greatest scene in Cinema ever.

Magic

Super Tuesday Approaches

Writes ck on January 28th, 2008

Read More: International, US Presidential election 2008

Now in one instance Tuesday the 5th is looking like the day I will get to see ‘Cloverfield’ so that in of itself makes that day super. Of course perhaps more newsworthy is 22 States turn out to cast their votes in the US primaries - the time for discussions of momentum and symbolic wins […]