Oh, Debbie at the trade desk in the Central Statistics Office, purrrleeeeeease call me back soon. I neeeeeeeeed the figure for Irish exports to Hungary in 2000...

I think my my body is fighting off a slight infection at the moment. I feel like I have the beginnings of a hacking cough - which usually comes on suddenly, over the course of a few hours - but this hasn't got any worse since yesterday. Perhaps I'm seeing the benefit of those green vegetables I ate recently. Regardless, I'll just keep drinking ( Read more... )

I was motivated to write having read autosuggested's entry on the tabloid press. They do rather try to appeal to the basest human instincts. However, what I find equally as bad are the more expansive witterings of certain broadsheet Sunday papers, which pitch themselves as 'quality' titles. This breed is epitomised by the Irish Sunday Independent, the most ( Read more... )

Got a go in one of these today. It was lovely. Makes a great noise.

Saw Miami Vice last night. Enjoyed every minute of it. As usual with Michael Mann's work, it was beautiful to look at, soaked in dim, blue tones. Most of the reviews I'd read beforehand panned it, but they were preoccupied with plot intricacies etc ( Read more... )

Anyone like this watch?

Did anyone else see Prime Time last night? I thought it was quite hard-hitting, and will hopefully fan the flames of the decentralisation debate which as of yet is not nearly heated enough for my liking. Tom Parlon's performance was an insult, although highly indicitave of the fact that the government has so far made a complete hash of ( Read more... )

Lookit him there, all indie-cool...

There's this girl sitting across from me in the library. She's French, and she has this incredibly grating, whiney voice. It's like a cross between that of Bruce Willis' bird from Pulp Fiction and, well, every other French female I've ever heard speak. I shall scream if she doesn't stop muttering to her twig-like male companion very soon.

I find McDonald's new "D'you wanna career wit' dah" adverts hilarious, although admirably frank about people's perceptions of McDonald's workers ( Read more... )