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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.

  • The Arts Block – Trinity College Dublin

    A real stunner of a building, it immediately conjures images of the earlypostbrutalist structures of the Russian and Bangalorian School. It sits squat like a toad, a forlorn military bunker ripped to eye from the cold brown embrace. Luck are those who work within, who study there. The bare concrete, so bravely unadorned, upon every… Read more

  • Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake

    I couldn’t believe it when Suze finally agreed to a date. I’d fruitlessly pursued her for months, often at speed, gifting her with hampers of apples, pairs and juicy mangos. I’d done everything bar quit my narcoleptics to convince the picky cunt I’d be a catch. I’d scrawled her name countless times in dogs blood… Read more

  • An Old Fashioned Christmas – The Carpenters

    You sweat in the boiler room of the Panopticon, cramped concrete basement roofed with a great fisheye lens, a crystal cornea inflecting itchy movements to the batties high above. You huddle in a clutch of knees and hands, milking salt on the slick grill of metallic floor. You miss your life, hunting in the woods… Read more

  • Site slowness and new site launch

    Apologies for the performance of this site over the past week, my host Dreamhost seem to be going through one of their periodic screw ups (always of greater length and severity than admitted to on their status page). This has meant that all of the sites I host, including Trinity FM and Technolotics, have been… Read more

  • Webcamp – Social Networks

    Many thanks to John Breslin for organising Irelands first Webcamp, last Wednesday 7th March. The afternoon was an enlightening look into the development, search, analysis and productive uses of social networks. I’ve wiki’d some notes on event (Ed – 2013, notes below). Particularly interesting was the response of designated Bebo’s spokesperson, Mark Tarbatt of webvertising… Read more

  • Hats off to the Buskers – The View

    What a lot of cock. Boring lazy and designed to make what ever monster it is that writes the play lists for Radio 1 in the uk cream all off the leg of his ma, what who he’s banging. And as his slightly green jizzism starts to crystallize and the album keeps playing and you… Read more