As part of the information service we like to provide here at the Dossing Times we are using this weeks Top 6 Friday to bring some worrying characteristics of small villages to your attention. It appears to be all about false pretences as these villages tend to prove picturesque, well maintained and ideally located. Our […]

I have talked before about the need for Ireland to come strong in Patented research. But sometimes you can just take a patent to far.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for […]

Conversations of great depth, an Alabama 3 gig and the search for Guinness - the DT boys weekend mapped through song.
1. Chris Cornell, You Know My Name (Best Bond theme discussion)

2. Alabama 3, Woke Up this Morning (The Sopranos, New York Grind in Dublins IFSC serving disappointing Eggs Benedict and Alabama 3 gig)

3. ELO, Mr. […]

I like the time during which you get to watch movie trailers (Funny Games), pick up a book you had forgotten you were reading (Long Way Down) and generally do more than wait for Tuesday morning to come having seen out the first day of the week. So often proper things need doing or you […]

6. “Oh, no! It wasn’t the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.” (King Kong)
5. “Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” (Romeo and Juliet)

4. Let us now relieve the […]

Now I am not especially well read, many of the books I’d put in a list of favourites were read as part of a school curriculum or from younger years when I lived for reading and would power my way through a book in the space of an evening. This article from the New York […]

I always think of an episode of ‘Animaniacs’ from a time I like to now term - back in the day (rather than put an actual date on it) – and a segment entitled ‘Good Idea, Bad Idea’. It went as such – Good Idea – Finding an Easter Egg on Easter Sunday, Bad Idea […]

So this ultimately useless gimmick on the Microsoft website can enable you check the strength of your password. Mine is deemed of ‘medium ‘ strength. I consider it a lazy password, based on a very obvious element in my life and sometimes it does strike me I am foolish to be of the blase […]

Now while I can’t seem to get into a rhythm of reading consistently of late, those of you who do so may make use of the site, What Should I Read Next?, which recommends books based on the compiled recommendations of contributors - the site claims to make selections from over 47, 000 books. I […]

It started with towels. You go to a hotel now and there is a sign on the door saying something like.
Please reuse towels as by cleaning them we are using more energy. So to help us fight climate change reuse.
Now I doubt the hotel really cares about climate change the purpose is to get people […]