So I have begun the practice recently of saving text messages to my phone, rather than keep a mental note which will fail miserable, due to me either being drunk, forgetful or a little bit of both, of something that I wanted to remember, look up, a recommendation made to me and so forth. Here [...]

Erver wonder what they are singing in Bollywood movies.

TV schedulers seem to have some sort of vendetta against airing quality TV shows and movies at reasonable times. Tonight BBC2 show the Beatles movie ‘A Hard Days Night’, followed by a double bill of ‘Arrested Development’ from 11.45 while prime time tomorrow night on RTE 1 is given over to the horse manure that [...]

On first discovering this movie I posted a link to the trailer, remarking how it might just be the worse premise for a movie in the history of humanity. Note to all of you who have conversations with people who know you anyway well - do not agree to a dare to go to a [...]

The pomp of the Opening Ceremony has given way to our country’s best atheletes striving for gold. A reoccuring conversation though is often whether the sports they hope to represent their country in are anything but pointless displays rather than a reflection of great sporting ability. We’ve looked through the back catalogue of discontinued sports [...]

Luara Brady is in the Irish Times as their Leaving Cert exam person to tell us the trials and tribulations of exam life. Every year the Irish Times do this and every year it seems to be someone aiming for 7 A1’s from D4. Why not someone aiming to just pass from Clare. Is [...]

The UK prime Ministers website is running on Wordpress. Which is the same software as this site.  It is amazing how a little blogging platform is expanded to much more. Not sure it is a great idea but well done to the wordpress crowd and especially Ireland wordpress guy Donncha.
They seem to have twitter and [...]

Irish Independent Article

McCain accuses Obama of being a celebrity unable to lead, making reference to people like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton

Paris Hilton retorts in a surprisingly humorous swipe at McCain

Obama Retorts

Roaming Rebels stag brought me to Berlin this weekend and a great time was had by all. Two of his work colleagues Tim and Gaz, are also bloggers. The first focuses largely on motorbikes and tattoos,with Gaz mapping the progression of a tattoo inspired by 1950s sci fi movies the length of his right arm, while the [...]