I was researching design ideas for a portfolio and came across this excellent image, author unknown [via Maryland Media]. Funny and accurate! [click to open full size]

I just haven’t had the energy for blogging recently … writing or even reading blogs. Work is draining me and I have been driving from Sligo to Cork once per week for the past 4 weeks, heading down again tomorrow as a matter of fact. I was planning to blog the BBC story on illegal [...]

We just won a holiday today on a scratch card. Problem is it’s for one person so it’s no good to me. So if you fancy the prize; return flights from Dublin to Prague, 6 nights hotel accommodation on a twin share basis for 1 person I’m willing to sell the ticket very cheap. Make [...]

Apologies for the brief disappearance for a few days last week. It appears that a comments script, part of the Greymatter applicaiton I used to use for Raiméis, caused a server shut down and my webhost was none too pleased. So they simply shut down my entire domain. Although I agree with their actions, at [...]

Bin a bit quiet round here recently, I know. Travelling a lot with work an all dat so haven’t had the time or energy for posting. There’s a chance it may continue for another month or two … unless I win the lotto and fulfil my dream of becoming a professional layabout. Won nuttin on [...]

Time for just one more tonight. I was scouring through my domain earlier, trying to delete a lot of old shit which is taking up space on my server when I found some of my earliest blog posts. This post may or may not be my first but it was definitely one of the earliest [...]

Just got an interesting (to me) email a short while ago. I hope the young lady in question doesn’t mind me posting it here. The email: Twenty three yrs ago, the first clear word out of my two yr old grandaughter mouth, was “Maca”, as she looked at me. I’m still trying to find the [...]

This is something I haven’t bothered to check before … search terms people used when they found my blog. Here’s some good ones from just the last 100 or so searches: “funny chinese names” – an amazing amount of people are searching for funny chinese names. Cén fáth? “yorkshire hijab” – eh? “most hated people [...]

Via TCAL, now this is how to deal with telemarketers!

Fun with headlines … been a while since the last one. Reuters: Genetic mutation doubles breast cancer risk: study Although they don’t say what the risk is of becoming a genetic mutant. Plus it’s a good thing the teenage mutant ninja turtles don’t have tits as they are much more at risk that the rest [...]