Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Month: March, 2010

Taking a Chance

On the Dublin road there’s a pub with a pool table that myself, Dad and some friends often go to on the weekends. It’s even on FourSquare. The only thing that annoys me about going out there (apart from my inability to win a game apart from my opponent committing one of the seemingly millions [...]

Thoughts on Photo 365

I’ve been working on Photo 365 for almost three weeks now and a couple of things have become apparent to me. 1. Wasting It’s similar to blogging in the way that for it to be interesting, you have to be interesting. If I spend the day being a lazy bum well then my daily photo [...]

Mistakes

One of the big mistakes people make when they’re familiar with something is making the assumption that everyone else is at the same level as them. I make this mistake sometimes, if I’m helping someone with something I might refer to a “VGA cable” or tell them to “switch the display options to projector mode”, [...]

Reblog: What does it mean to be Irish?

I wrote this back in September; I thought it was as relevant as any other post I’d be doing today so I’m reblogging it. Thoughts? comments? Be sure to leave ‘em at the bottom – shur aren’t the Irish all about community? :) I was wondering this at the wedding. Once I’ve gotten over my sense [...]

I miss…

Drumming. Whatever about the annoyance of the cast, whatever about having to use a wheelchair at school, whatever about having decidedly less skin on my kneecap than before, whatever about not being able to go upstairs, whatever about having to get up around 3am every night like I’m the father of some newborn kid, there’s [...]

Knee – Cast Update

Well, is it still a cast update if I don’t actually have a cast on at present? Details, details… I am currently cast-less; admittedly 3 weeks earlier than usual, but without-cast all the same. Yesterday while watching a film with Mum, we noticed marks/stains around my right knee on the cast. I’d been feeling more [...]

MusicSunday

Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy

The Softer Side

Ian Fleming is probably the most famous detective writer of the 20th century. Certainly, he created the most iconic movie character ever to appear in cinemas worldwide: James Bond. He lived just like his character too – he enjoyed living in exotic locations (he wrote his books in a home in Jamaica), was a heavy smoker [...]

Dive into Work

Been a crazy busy couple of days! Was down in Cork on Thursday, working with TV3 on a programme about The Lives of Teenagers, which is due to be broadcast some time in June. I was among epic company with Enda Crowley, Siobhan McGettigan and James Whelton – and we made quite a diverse group of [...]

Web mail vs. Mail.app

One of the most common questions about email is what’s the best way of accessing it. There are two main ways. 1. Through your browser, going to www.gmail.com or www.hotmail.com. 2. Using a desktop like Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Apple Mail. There’s no right or wrong answer here, so I’m just going to lay [...]