Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

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Music: My tastes

I think for someone as big a music freak as me, my blog should reflect this. I don’t think I talk about my music tastes half enough. And OK, I know that most people think that I love the Dresden Dolls and no one else. They may be my favourite band, but they are far [...]

The Chocolate Wars

I set up a new blog yesterday. Don’t worry! Trust Tommy isn’t going anywhere fast, it’s just that the whole chocolate thing me, Damien, Lexia, Alan, Livies and co. have got going was seemingly getting shown exclusively on TrustTommy, which I didn’t feel was right. Then again, I’m the only one here with a brother [...]

Meeja

Borrowing the blogger’s term for the media today. I thought I should :-) Spin South West, a radio station based from Raheen in Limerick City and broadcasting to County Kerry, County Limerick, County Clare, North Tipperary and south-west County Laois, called me last night and asked if I’d be interested in doing an interview on [...]

Eircom Block Customers from Accessing Pirate Websites

The Business Post reported on how mobile giant Eircom plan on blocking file sharing/P2P (peer-to-peer)/music pirating websites in an attempt to put a stop to music piracy. The news was greeted by bloggers and folk alike with generally the same reaction: they were unhappy that their internet usage was being policed in such a fashion. [...]

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 [...]

Is something happening today?

Sitting in the backseat of the car, my hands getting used to the new case that I just bought to protect my new bundle of joy. Probably heading down to the Blog Awards around 3 today. It shouldn’t take us more then 1.75 hours to get down there, so looking toward to mingling with people [...]

The Saga Continues v2.0

So, I’m tearing myself away from iPhone-ing but I have a tale to tell. So, sit back, relax, and attend the tale of the chocolate shampoo. Yes. You read that right. Chocolate shampoo. I finally got up about two hours ago, and hopped in the shower. I reach for the green shampoo but it’s empty. [...]

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 [...]

Me and iPhone

Gosh, this is like one of those sordid love affairs that my Mum would watch in one of her soaps! This on-off-on-off relationship storyline is usually kept to Fair City or Corrie. Well, obviously the story wouldn’t involve an iPhone, but you get the point. We all know of my god-awful history with iPhones. iPhone [...]

Ugh

Right, boycotting doing any shopping with either parent until at least the 20th of February. I was innocently in the yoghurt section looking for natural yoghurt when my senses were accosted by this: Jaysus. I don’t know who’s worse. On the one hand, you have John and Patrick replacing my toothpaste with chocolate (true story!!) [...]