So two good friends of mine are currently taking part in a relationship together. I have known the girl longer and through a hardly worth explaining series of events she is known to me as ‘The Mint’. Her car is also known as MInty. So when reading of a new range of summer cocktails being [...]

We have a 19 year old doing work experience in my office this summer - very competent, mannerly and efficient in her work, some of her remarks as well as her sunglasses being firmly affixed on her head throughout the day have given me cause to fear for the future of the country. Her largest faux pas [...]

So my work has me deal with Russian documents (and their translations, I dont know the language) and instinctively when I come across a batch of such documents, I find myself singing ‘Back in the USSR’ to myself here in the office. Here is a clip of Sigourney Weaver singing the song in the movie [...]

* The predominance of blogging for communicating and the broader internet as a tool for doing so much is undeniable. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in an intrview with the Washington Post has gone as far as saying:
“In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down” [...]

Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower

The New York Times have compiled a list of the greatest 1,000 movies ever made - quite the list as you can imagine - I’m determined to find the time though to work through the list and see how many I have seen.
Wizard Magazine, is counting down the 200 greatest comic book characters of all [...]

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 [...]