The sunlight was so brilliant that day, you could’ve cut it with a butter-knife. It was June, and I was in the car with John, driving home from a weekend with my cousins. We had just left when John turned on the radio, switching it to CD mode. “I made a new one” he called [...]
Just a quick post to make it public that I’m no longer involved in IrishStudentBlogs.com. We didn’t see eye to eye about things and in the end it was best just to take a step back and leave it to Ben. I hold no hard feelings. The idea of a database to aggregate and promote [...]
Last.FM is a music website owned by CBS Interactive. Its main strength (for me) is the scrobbling service. You download their app and leave it running in the background, and it quietly ‘scrobbles’ your music. After that, you can view your profile (example) and it can show you your most-played artists or songs. How’s this [...]
I enjoy almost all aspects of the second-level English course. Media studies, journal entries, fiction, you name it, I’ll enjoy it. Except poetry. For the most part, I enjoy reading poetry. I just don’t enjoy studying it. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of these teenage angst posts about how ‘the Irish secondary school system is [...]
I never collected magazines as a kid. John collected the Beano and Patrick got some programming one, PC World I think it was, but there was never one that really caught my eye. Having said that, I do enjoy comics. I first came across Charlie Brown through the musical, which debuted off-Broadway in 1967, which [...]
Here is the report on my Young Scientist project, entitled Examining the Attitudes of Secondary School Students toward Blogging. Some background: To do this project, a two page questionnaire was posted out to 13 schools from 5 counties (a copy of which is in the report book). I devised the questionnaire myself after looking at [...]
I’ve always loved smooth jazz like this, so Jamie Cullum really should feature in my music library more than it should. The video is also live, which is unusual for me. The sound quality is pristine though, which is why I like it :) Here he is doing a number from Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, [...]
Sitting here in the hotel room, hoping I get this typed up in the little hour-long window of opportunity I have to use the internet (stupid voucher pass). The Young Scientist is officially finished, and my poster is lying, rolled-up, on my bed. I do love the Exhibition, despite how physically tiring it is and [...]
I’m not going to lie to you. Having no internet at the hotel makes Tommy a very unhappy bunny. It also impedes this blog’s progress. Indeed, in what experts are calling ‘pretty fail’, I’m stuck doing the day 2 post on day 3, and we all know how big a deal that is. Thursday meant [...]
Every time I wake up at 7am, I’m convinced I just won’t make it through the day. C’est impossible! said the stereotypical French wino. By jove, it’s mathematical certainty, old boy! said the quintessential university Maths lecturer, complete with tweed patches on his leather jacket. Not really stopping to think about why these people are [...]