Bock The Robber

I got one of these incredibly smart phones the other day.  An unbelievably smart phone, but not smart in a neat-slacks-and-jacket sort of way or a tidy-haircut way, or even a [...]

I always liked this piece of doggerel, though I’d hesitate to call it a poem.  It was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes a century and a half ago,and it gently [...]

Here’s how consultancy works if you happen to be a government agency or a large private-sector company with bad control of your finances.   Phase I – Preparation First you [...]

Tourism Ireland’s new website was designed by Hugo and Cat — a creative agency for a digital world. At first glance it appears that the cat did most of the [...]

Let me be straight about this: I think Apple products are overpriced and over-hyped, but that’s just my opinion.  After all, nearly everyone I know has a MacBook Pro or [...]

We were gathered around a blazing turf fire, sharing a companionable beer when a lull fell over the conversation.  We’d been talking about the idea William Burroughs had to build [...]

You might remember about this time last year, the students on the Interactive Media Masters course at UL held a night of short films based on assorted nonsense from this [...]

I made shit of my laptop, in the traditional manner as laid down in ancient computer scripture. Throw not thine laptop from the window, nor yet into the Sea wherein [...]

Some visitors will have noticed that the site has been a bit flaky in recent days. This is (probably) not due to an attack by Youth Defence cyber-commandos, or because [...]

The iPad Mini is just right, according to Tim Cook, who took over from Steve Jobs as Chief  Visionary at Apple.  The Force is strong with this one, but perhaps [...]