I never did really get st. patrick’s day, and I still don’t. After the two drinks I had in the afternoon made me feel like crap, I decided to give it another go at 9pm. I managed to blag my way in the side entrance while there was a massive queue for the main door. [...]

The first thing I read this morning was “St Patrick wasn’t a Saint”. This came as quite a shock to me, so I read on, and followed the link to the Wikipedia article: For most of Christianity’s first thousand years, canonisations were done on the diocesan or regional level. Relatively soon after the death of [...]

For some reason I never quite caught on to email. I get plenty, though most are not from real people, instead I get more forum reply notifications, blog comment notifications, myspace messages/requests/comments notifications and newsletters from Slashdot, Play.com etc. The last person I person I wrote an email to was my domain host‘s support team [...]

My index finger is sore from scrolling. All the constant scrolling I’ve done over the last few hours has actually made my index finger sore. Darn RSS reading and all those unread posts. I can say however that I am fully caught up with my Irish bloggers blogs. My Mum emailed me this evening saying [...]

With all the wars, politics, economics, poverty, celebrities etc – we need more fun. Every so often we hear of wonderful acts of kindness and people being good en mass. Although I have never gotten around to joining him, I have great respect for Danny Wallace. In 2002 Danny started a cult which, at the [...]

Yesterday I overheard possibly the most ego-boosting conversation. A few secretaries on their lunch break were discussing their ideas of the perfect guy. Apparently they all go for the ‘player’ but know they shouldn’t. Though they would ‘settle’ with the ‘nerdy geeky type’, like Seth from The OC.