So the 2011 edition of the warriors festival is done and gone. 798 runners gathered around the sea front on Saturday afternoon to do the 10 mile race up Knocknarea Mountain. I enrolled to run this year, but very conveniently I sprained my ankle a couple of weeks before and I was not fit to [...]
29/08/2011
Image: graur codrin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net So imagine this: you are fast asleep, already in the land of dreams and after a night of drinking. Suddenly you hear a bell… Not the fire alarm (thank god) but the door bell and you suddenly realise that there are girls giggling while the door bell is being pushed [...]
28/08/2011
This post may be biased… I am an Apple fan… So I am impressed with pretty much everything it comes from Cupertino. A few years ago, Steve Jobs was invited to give a graduation speech to a graduation ceremony in Stanford and, as usual, it was a memorable moment. I leave here the full speech. [...]
05/08/2011
Image: Phil Thebault / FreeDigitalPhotos.net I was finally there. I had the feeling that this was the culminate of the perfect vacation. The beach was amazing. I could see the clear blue sky disappearing far in the horizon just before melding with a light clear blue sea. The sun was warm and giving spectacular mirror [...]
16/06/2011
“‘The Runway’ is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who had a bumpy landing near Mallow, Co. Cork in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. It is the story of [...]
08/06/2011
Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net Another interesting Irish expression is “I did not come up the Liffey on a bicycle”. As usual I cannot find a straight line from this expression to its meaning, but this is what makes these expressions really funny. For the distracted Dubliners, or to those that have never set foot on Ireland, the [...]
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