Over midterm, I spend a couple of days with friends and we talked a bit about the surgery. We’d Skyped each other while I was in hospital and she commented that I looked quite down and sick. It got me thinking about the whole hospital experience. The surgery that I had in America last September [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not able to do Jekyll and Hyde with my Youth Theatre over the next couple of months. There’s just too much going on for me to try and take on another show that I know next to nothing about. I will do the smaller variety show we’ve got [...]
The internet is so many different things to different people. For some folks, it’s can be how they work, how they play, how they share news, how they get news, how they stay in touch with friends, and so on. A big part of the net for me is documenting. My blog has 1,100 odd [...]
Today, Liveline was playing in the kitchen as I ate my breakfast. It got me thinking, and soon afterwards, I tweeted: Honest question here, but is RTÉ Liveline just a show where people ring up to complain, or am I missing something? I got a couple of replies, all of which agreed that all Liveline [...]
Yesterday was unusual in that I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the cinema but I also caught the second half of The Golden Compass on TV last night. It’s unusual a) for me to see two films in one day and b) that the two films in question are based on arguably [...]
What’s Wrong With DOT WIKIPEDIA DOT ORG We all use Wikipedia, probably daily. It’s the quickest way to find out small bits of trivia like who the President of Ireland during World War Two, or when The Shining was released or who directed the film version When people go to Wikipedia, they’re simply amazed at [...]
Alternatively titled: “1,100 words on why the Amazon Kindle is freaking amazing” I’ve had my Amazon Kindle a couple of days now and I can honestly say that the move from book to eBook is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. The Screen The first that I noticed about the Kindle as I [...]
Photos here are photos of my everyday life here in Minnesota, with some Instagram effects. Click for bigger. There’s been a lot of talk over the newest addition to the photo sharing iPhone App — both good and bad (Robert Scoble has been pretty vocal, singing songs of praise to the little app). Instagram is [...]
On a whim, I started reading some of Trust Tommy’s archives the other day, to see what was different between, say, November 2008 and the same month in 2010. I’ve come to the conclusion that the difference is that back then, I wrote for myself because my only readers were my family. When you’re writing [...]
The thing about Cerebral Palsy (CP) is that it’s limiting. You have to watch what you do and how you do it. It’s something that you have to stay on top or it because it’s a slippery slope if you develop bad habits with the way you sit or something equally mundane. On the whole, [...]