So, my Young Scientist project (“examining the attitudes of secondary school students toward blogging”) is chugging along nicely; I’m hoping to hand out the questionnaire to the first school tomorrow; which should really get the wheels turning. Here’s what it looks like at the moment, but knowing me I’ll probably make numerous small changes tonight [...]
Yesterday, we got our Christmas Tree, all 12 feet of it. Next in the process is the star… Before John gets disgruntled all over my blog, let the record show that the star was made by him, and he utilized his Technical Graphics knowhow to make a *mathematically correct* star. And now the decorations: These [...]
This week’s song of choice is Sound of Settling by Death Cab for Cutie. I discovered this song last Wednesday when I was at the Simply Zesty event – I was playing with Phil‘s iPod Touch and saw that he had Tap Tap Revenge installed – I’d heard a lot about this app so I [...]
Last night, after much tearing my hair out, and promising away my first-born, I finally got Spotify working. Spotify, if you don’t know, is a streaming service that allows you to listen (stream) to music without the need to download it, per sé. It certainly removed a lot of the work, there’s no need to [...]
In the olden days, when you ordered a pizza, you ate it and that was that. So why, in 2009, is this any different? It is for me, anyway. Did I miss the changeover? because when I order pizza now, there seems to be a rigmarole associated with that I go through each time. There’s [...]
Yesterday, I attended Simply Zesty‘s Winter Camp, an event centralized around PR, improved communication and the internet in general. The day was an astounding success and I learnt a lot of cool stuff – what’s the most searched term on Google in Ireland? ‘Facebook’. Take that, Bebo. I woke up 7am, after making a last [...]
Disclaimer: I am writing this because I feel it deserves recognition. I was not asked to write this, nor shall I seek payment, in fruit tarts or otherwise… La Cucina, described by Lorraine, the proprietor, as ‘…a little piece of authentic Italy in Limerick’ is an Italian deli in Castletroy, Limerick. Recently, they finished up [...]
The closest religion I’d associate my beliefs to would be atheism, but I manage to go about my daily business without dwelling on it too much. Why spend all of this life worrying about getting into the next one? There’s only now, as they say. If I was religious, I’d imagine it’d probably go along [...]