Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Month: December, 2009

Christmas presents

For all my talk of ‘need to be doing things all the time’, I somehow find time to procrastinate buying Christmas presents later and later each year. Maybe it’s because I don’t like them. Not the actual presents, just the buying. I’m not one of those insufferable cynics who goes around posting leaflets with ‘happy [...]

MusicSunday 3

This next song isn’t well known, and therefore I haven’t found a YouTube video for it, but here’s an MP3 for it: The song is called Book of Endings by Adam Pascal who describes it as inspired by those dreaded f***ing internet chatrooms.. I mean, I need to know what the 14 year old’s demographic [...]

My New Hero

It’s now on my list of things to do before I die – anyone know any good cliffs nearby? The closest ones I can think of are the Cliffs of Moher but I somehow think that they’re not exactly opportune…

And we’re off: Christmas Exams 2009

Christmas exams have started in full swing today and I like to think I’ve hit the ground running. Today was Science, CSPE and English, and I was pleased with how they went. I had study periods before each of them and I did my best to revise a little of everything in the time that [...]

Something since it’s Christmas

Review of Google Chrome

I’ve been using Chrome for just over 6 days now and I must say I’m quite impressed. I’d been using Safari religiously before then but I’m definitely a Chrome convert now – do we have a special name? Chromeverts? Do we get jackets? I do hope so – I’m a sucker for jackets. I’ve heard [...]

Josh Ritter – Good Man

The need to be doing stuff

I’ve always maintained that you can do blogposts on pretty much anything – it’s all in the writing of the post. But I guess that it can only go so far. Sometimes, just nothing of note happened. These sorts of days are toxic to personal bloggers. I wrote on this in The Problem With Personal [...]

Debate

Tonight is our third debate, and the motion is that The Celtic Tiger has failed Ireland; which we’re proposing. I hurriedly threw a speech together today after being in Dublin yesterday and having Cuchie shopping day off on Tuesday. Also; I got my Christmas exam timetable, and studying must commence now. As such, the blogging [...]

Required

As I suspected, some changes have been made to the questionnaire; and I start printing it out tonight. Where I plan on making my study stand out is the sheer volume. If I can get 2,000 (an entirely reachable number) completed questionnaires on my doorstep to summerize – that’ll add weight to my results. Which [...]