Released in 1985, Take On Me is a synth-pop number from the band’s first album Hunting High and Low. The song reached poll position on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1985, thanks in no small part to the wide exposure its music video got (see YouTube video above). The video features the band in [...]
There’s nothing like a Friday evening to get you in a really good mood. It was a reasonably good day down in Limerick here — not quite tshirt-and-shorts weather but it wasn’t pelting down. We even saw the sun for a while during the day! Mum’s right — Spring is here. People talk about how [...]
Photo owned by Daquella manera (cc) I’ve been given a wheelchair for the period I’m in a cast for maneuvering through the school, which even I must admit makes some sense. There are 1,200 students at my school and the corridors at lunch breaks are quite hectic – I don’t know how anyone manages, actually. [...]
Photo owned by Rev Stan (cc) One of my earliest memories is John teaching me how a rook moves. I think that I’ve known how to play Chess for maybe 8-odd years. I measured how much I was improving by how easily (if at all) I could beat family members. After a couple of years, [...]
Last weekend, I went to Wexford to see some friends. It’s not somewhere I go very often but it’s a lovely place when the weather’s right (isn’t everywhere?) and I thoroughly enjoyed my short time there. I was there to see Orla and Áine, and while we were all together we decided to see County [...]
Last week, Adobe Photoshop celebrated its 20th birthday. Its huge status in the computer world can be measured in numerous ways; the fact that it’s the second most pirated piece of computer software in the world (Microsoft Windows XP comes first, if you’re interested), the fact that the verb ‘to photoshop something’ is now used [...]
This week’s song is Some Devil by Dave Matthews. Simple guitaring and haunting vocals are epic. Spent the weekend with friends in Wexford. Saw RENT and generally had an absolutely fantastic weekend. Review of the show shall follow in the next few days.
Despite agreeing with some of the points he makes about religion, I’ve never liked Richard Dawkins. Not only does he force his beliefs on others, he does in such an annoyingly smug manner that I don’t see why or how anyone stands him. Why am I blogging this interview? Well it seems to be an [...]
Do you remember I explained how Foursquare worked earlier this month? It’s come under fire from a new website for the (supposed) burgling opportunities it provides — PleaseRobMe searches Twitter for tweets containing containing FourSquare checkin information (you can give FourSquare to automatically publish a tweet when you log in somewhere) and it takes it [...]
6am starts have never been, are not and never will be welcomed in TommyLand. If I could pay money to never have to be woken early, I would. I was awake that early because I was due in Cappagh Hospital at 9am for surgery. The car journey up passed in a haze of trying to [...]