I’ve just arrived, after a fashion, at ‘Hostel Blues’ in Bratislava. Which means I got lost. Of course I relied on my sense of direction, which, though not infallible, usually pretty good. What I generally do is use Google Maps to find directions and commit it the directions to memory. This usually works very well, apart [...]
It’s such an eye-opener being here, in a nation which is one of the newest additions to our elite European club, the EU. I don’t think I’m alone, as an Irishman, in revelling in our newfound cosmopolitan confidence, but at the same time, to find it shattered on travelling to some of the more exotic [...]
I’m in the airport in Paris, waiting for a connection to Budapest. Everyone’s speaking French, and mine is terribly rusty. All I can think of is Catherine Tate and her vaguely racist sketches. How did I end up here? Malev over-booked my flight this morning and offered to put me on a later one, connecting [...]
I am leaving for Budapest early tomorrow morning, for the annual ESHHS conference. It runs from Tuesday to Friday, and then I’m going to sail up the Danube to Bratislava for a few nights. Funnily enough, I am not excited about the whole thing. Apprehensive would be a better word, uneasy even. It’s not the [...]
Ciarán has smoked his last cigarette. For ever. And you can hold me to that!
Navan cinema warns that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Bruno is ‘vile’ - Independent.ie A cinema showing the film Bruno has warned fans it is “vile” and to stay away if they don’t want to be offended. It left a recorded message on the ticket hotline about the tasteless antics
… mais je ne sais pas pourquoi j’écris en français! peut-être je voudrais être quelqu’un d’autre … quelqu’un français? je ne crois pas! Because, quite simply, this isn’t the first time I’ve shaved my head. But that’s probably because it’s neither the first time that I’ve felt like I’ve required a good kick up the arse, [...]
I’ve been feeling rather strange of late. I have oodles of time on my hands, and although I have a certain amount of work on my hands, I have been able to do very little of it. Give work to a busy person, as they say. So, I’ve been trying to pull myself together, without [...]
There’s no point in me beating about the bush on this one: I am absolutely terrible at replying to emails. Days, weeks, months – years even – can slip by before I get around responding. I don’t know how other people do it. Facebook too, I’m bloody awful. I do try, honestly I do, but [...]
Hugely disappointed with McAfee. Seems to be blocking everything, left, right and centre, including itself, to the point where I can’t activate the product, so it won’t update. I would almost find it laughably ironic, that a ‘security program’ is actually blocking itself from downloading ‘security updates’ but for the fact that it doesn’t surprise [...]