I first set this as a thread up over on Youth Discussion, but I began thinking about it more and more and decided I had a lot to say on the subject. Public Speaking should be taught as a compulsory subject in school. Patrick, ma bruvver, started this idea first, but now that I’m giving [...]
FINE Gael European Election candidate for Ireland East has said that An Taoiseach Brian Cowen learned all he knows about economics ‘as a child playing monopoly’. Fine Gael European Election candidate for Ireland East, Senator John Paul Phelan, compared Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to a child playing monopoly and accused the government of ignoring all the [...]
A forum for people (roughly) between the ages of 10 and 20, to come onto and they can swap opinions on things like films or books. They can interact with other people (roughly) the same age and just generally socialize. Because of our world today, we obviously have to be careful of adults masquerading as [...]
I caught Questions and Answers last night, because Damien was on it, and they were talking about Facebook privacy, which is sufficiently techie to garner my interest. In what soon became apparent to be The Dermot Ahern Show, named because the man got about half the total screentime of the show, they talked about general [...]
So, the people behind Tweetie the Twitter iPhone app released the desktop client version today. Download here Oh wow. I never really liked Twitter desktop clients because I ran over the API limit about 15 minutes into the allotted hour, so I always stuck to the web interface, finding it perfect to my needs and [...]
As I’ve gone through my school life, I’ve always tried to be as similar to all the other kids as I could, trying to fit in. Recently however, I’ve taken to be more accepting of my differences, and embraced them. Firstly, I started using my cane in school, for getting around the corridors. I can [...]
I was originally going to wait until we had some more members to post about this, but then I remembered that you can’t have members without publicity, so it’s a bit like the chicken and the egg in that respect. It’s something I’ve had in mind for a while now, but I’ve only got around [...]
Taken from the BeeBeeSee: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is offering the chance to spend a day with her husband Bill in exchange for help paying off her campaign debt. The offer was sent to supporters of Mrs Clinton in an e-mail from her former campaign manager, James Carville. Mrs Clinton owes $2.3m (£1.5m)from [...]
I have some weird dreams, but this one takes the biscuit. It’s also not the first time I’ve had this particular one. This happened when I was older, and I’d managed to procure some monies. Basically, I either rented or owned (couldn’t make out which) a big huge open space which I changed around. In [...]