Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Tag: blog

Blogger Talk

Today, my ICT (Information and Communication Technologies, a jazzed up name for simple IT) teacher took me aside and asked me if I’d be willing to take next week’s 40 minute ICT class and teach my class about blogging. This is a perfect opportunity. Almost since I started blogging, last May, I’ve wanted other kids [...]

New stuff

OK. We’re back to the old theme. Majority rule and all that. Still, I have made some other changes. You also can now find my tweets, if you only direct your eyes to the right of this post –>> Also, what I’ve decided to do is let people fully view my statistics. So what I’ve [...]

Irish Blog Awards 2009

Sitting in the front seat of the car as we glide along the motorway at 55KM/h. I guess I should start writing that post on the awesome night that was last night, the Irish Blog Awards 2009, which were held in the Cork international airport hotel. I was announced as 2008′s best newcomer, which was [...]

Thought You Ought To Know

Yours truly is a finalist in his category (Best Newcomer) in the Irish Blog Awards 2009. There are five finalists in my category. They are: – Trust Tommy – Lee Munroe – The National Lottie – Joe Scanlon – Outside In Congrats to everyone who got this far! Link to official website, with list of [...]

Skycon

Yesterday, I popped down to Skycon down in UL’s computer society yesterday (after going to reception and not being able to locate it). Met with Livies and also with Kla and Lexia. Chatted for a while and then went in to see Randall Munroe, of XKCD fame, give his keynote. I caught the last bit [...]

A favour

Now, I don’t ask much of you, as readers, to do much. I’m happy with you doing just that. OK, that’s grand, but I do have a small favour to ask of you. No, I’m not looking for money. *cue lots of “phew!”s* I want you, in a comment, to tell me what your favourite [...]

Blogo

I wanted to use a desktop Twitter client, I really did, but there are some really crap ones and none seemed to have each of the features I wanted. -Ability to @reply a tweet-Click on URLs-Favourite and retweet features-Ability to DM-BOTH auto-refresh and manual refresh-Ability to only show my @replies I googled ‘mac desktop twitter [...]

Intermission

Sorry for the recent lapse in quality posts in the last week. I’ve been incredibly busy writing a speech and being sick. Then again, by saying that I’m assuming I usually have quality posts. I know one or two lads who’d beg to differ :) In possibly my most overused phrase, (and trust me, there [...]