Is it Christmas yet? I’ve had to say this a few times recently. Eventually people will get it. My new home page. A collection of awesome underwater photographs. MM. I want a new Mac. I’m not a big fan of Bond (yes I said it) but these facts are still interesting. Do websites look the [...]

In Celebrating their 50th issue this month NI-based music magazine AU compiled a list of their favourite songs of Northern Irish bands since the first issue (June 2003), and so I have decided to do the same, on a smaller scale. Here are my current top 20 songs of NI bands: 1. Boathouse – Tinderbox [...]

Most of the photographs on this blog and the photoblog will have been taken within the two weeks prior to posting, so I’ve decided to post on a semi-regular basis an older favourite and explain a little of how it was taken, what I do and don’t like about it now. This photograph was taken [...]

The controversial web-app, Qwitter (not that Qwitter), was released on Friday by Contrast to fulfill our own curiosity about losing followers on Twitter. For those who don’t know, Twitter works in a way where by users ‘follow’ other users, news sources, celebrities, people of similar interests, friends etc. What they say shows up on your [...]

The Duke Special and Neil Hannon gig last week looks like it was good. Looking forward to hearing his latet album. Where are we going? The most efficient morning ever. Flickr’s Explore really is complex. But what is up with this panda? The truth on the front page. The Big Picture blog always has amazing [...]

Stephen Fry, the legendary geek, journalist, writer, comedian, blogger, traveller, tv presenter; a general mass of talent and intellect – has joined Twitter. In the last 7 days he has amassed 5,749 followers as the wave of “Stephen Fry is on Twitter!” spreads across the web, with many of the Irish twits grateful of reciprocated [...]

I realise that ‘reactions’ are supposed to be almost instantaneous on the web and many of the blogging folks have managed to get their write-ups on the Irish Web Awards online already. My brilliant excuse is that my macbook died on Saturday afternoon, leaving me unable to live-blog the awards, or upload the photos and [...]

Unfortunately there will be no live-blogging at the Irish Blog Awards tonight as my macbook died a few hours ago. It had been charging, I was using it, then pulled out the cable and it just went off. It has not come back on again since. The light on the charger is on when plugged [...]

I’m on my way to Dublin until Sunday for the Irish Web Awards, hosted by Rick O’Shea and organised by Damien Mulley. Celebrating the finest websites in the land, the IWA brings together the people behind the innovative, user-friendly, useful and beautiful parts of the web, and gives the best prizes, while the rest just [...]

Last Thursday, 2nd October, Belfast-born singer-songwriter Robert Holmes launched his EP ‘Hazard Hill’ in the Pavilion to a small but enthusiastic crowd of devoted fans. Terri Hooley, who was in the audience said, “I love Robert, though he can’t sing or play guitar”. This was clearly in Jest as Robert definitely can sing, he sings [...]