Archive for September, 2008

european heritage day one

September 14th, 2008

Leaving a little later than planned, I arrived at the Harbour Commissioners Office at 14:20. I didn’t know much about the building, which dates back to 1854, and admittedly still don’t as I haven’t read the leaflets I was given as I left, though the website tells me that “For almost 150 years the Harbour [...]


links and things – saturday 13th september

September 13th, 2008

The Big Word Project has done a good job redefining some words on politics. In November Queens University Belfast teach students how to master the Jedi Mind trick. The new DIgg Technology blog explains how DIgg works, similar article on the Community blog 35% of company own domain of their own name with the word [...]


bruised fruit promote peace

September 12th, 2008

Local music promoters Bruised Fruit have announced a free gig, and general day of all ages activities, in the Oh Yeah Music Centre on Sunday 21st September as part of the Peace Day Campaign, in association with Springboard. There are 8 bands on the bill – Olympic Lifts, Driving By Night, Skruff, The Jahm Band, [...]


european heritage days 2008

September 11th, 2008

This weekend many private and public buildings throughout Northern Ireland normally closed to the public, will be open for viewing and tours as part of the European Heritage Open Days. On Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th September European Heritage Open Day will come to you in Northern Ireland. During this weekend, you will be given [...]


links and things – wednesday 10th september

September 10th, 2008

Seeing as we are still here and were not sucked into a black hole… No dairy, no eggs, no wheat, no gluten. BananaMoon will be bringing their cakes to St Georges Market each Saturday between 9 and 3.30pm from this weekend. The Guardian has completed their website and blog redesign, ditching MovableType for its own [...]


meet cyril

September 9th, 2008

It was almost two weeks ago that I decided to take a walk around town with my camera, snapping things of interest – which usually isn’t very much – but a new attempt to find something different and take a new route must be done every so often. As I left the city centre and [...]


post creative camp belfast 2008

September 8th, 2008

The Belfast tech community got together on Saturday for another one of the increasingly frequent local tech events. Of course this one was open to all creative-types, being called CreativeCamp gives that away a little, unfortunately though, there is still some work to be done to show the other creative industries how useful open events [...]


links and things – sunday 7th September

September 7th, 2008

Google’s browser, Chrome, was released a few days ago. “available for everyone to try” – oh yeah except mac users. So far. I like Google, but I will be sticking with Firefox until it breaks. Digital Circle podcast #1 out today. Subscribe through iTunes. Rabbit bin bags. Experienced boner required. Duke Special has set a [...]


on balconytv

September 5th, 2008

Kitty and the Can Openers on BalconyTV You can download their full E.P. on the band’s website. Not long left to vote for the band on SlicethePie


show me things

September 5th, 2008

Show me things I don’t or won’t understand, things that will be strange to me. Beautiful things that make me want to be better and horrible things that that I can’t watch, things that make me want to be worse than I already am. Show me your thoughts and my own, and show me your [...]