How do you stay in touch when you can’t stay in touch during a Covid19 lockdown?
Life
Your mouse is too small
Prompted by someone sharing this tweet at work I decided to try making the mouse cursor on my machine bigger. On a Mac go to System Preferences->Accessibility->Display->Cursor. I only bumped the size up one notch, but it’s made a nice change and really makes a difference to the “feel” of […]
Life
Record your life one second at a time
1 second everyday records one second of footage every day and then builds up a compilation video when you’ve got enough video. Google Plus did something similar with their auto awesome video of the year too but I guess this will let me squeeze in a whole lot more! I […]
Humour
Welcome to Life
Tom Scott looks at what a corporate sponsored and controlled afterlife might be like. Creepy. That’s why you must choose The Pirate Bay as your primary healthcare provider.
Life
30 minutes of exercise a day? Can I?
I should walk my son to school more often. It’s only 1.2km away, 12 minutes to get back home and I feel refreshed after that walk. It’s been such a mild winter I have no excuse!
Donncha
My Christmas Day Adventure
Today was a Christmas Day my family won’t forget for a long time! We had a great time today, heard some amazing news, and then had a bit of an adventure on the way home. The weather has been pretty cold for the last while, the county was covered in […]
Donncha
I used to …
Looking around the shopping center this afternoon I remembered how I used to wonder why parents had a dull lifeless haggard look about them. This was when I was single. Now I’m a parent and I know why. I used to think that people who had their credit cards stolen […]
Life , Photos
Life Before Death
Life Before Death A series of powerful images, taken before and after the death of each subject. The images are striking, but what I found most moving and upseting were the stories that accompanied them. Some had accepted their fate while others rallied against it. “Death is nothing,” says Maria. […]
Life
Rescued from a terrible fall
If you live in Australia you may remember a news story about a young man who slipped and fell from a waterfall at Mount Glorious, west of Brisbane several weeks ago. The injured man was very badly hurt but his friend stayed with him and cared for him until help […]
Life , When-in-Ireland
Census 1901 – a look into the past
Do a search for Census 1901 Ireland and you’ll find lots of sites offering lists and information from the census that year. However for a personal insight into the Census, Grannymar has an interesting post. It was a completely different world. “The good old days” indeed! Column 4 – Education. […]