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    Shortlisted

    Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

    I’m genuinely surprised to see this blog shortlisted for the 2009 Irish Blog Awards. Thanks to the judges who decided that AdamMaguire.com was good enough to make the cut.
    It’s quite a cut too - the competition is extremely fierce. I’m sticking by my previous prediction of Michael O’Toole’s blog but given that Jim Carroll has […]

    Irish Blog Awards Long List announced

    Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

    The Long List for the 2009 Irish Blog Awards has been announced - it is available to read here.
    I’ve made the cut in the Best Blog from a Journalist category, so thanks to those who have kept me in the race and hard luck to those who have dropped off.
    I stand by my earlier prediction […]

    My bible and prayer book

    Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

    As I said last year, The Media Contacts Directory proved quite useful to me for a variety of reasons. I’ve been sent another copy of it and I’m sure the latest edition will fulfil a similar function in 2009 but I get the feeling the ‘Experts 2009′ booklet that came with it will prove far […]

    And I only just got used to writing ‘2008′ on things

    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

    That’s all for this cycle - see you all on the other side where we’ll start this whole thing off again.

    Blog stats for 2008

    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

    More for my own curiosity than anyone else’s - here are some stats from this blog for 2008:
    According to Wordpress the blog currently has 577 posts, 95 of which were published in 2008 (compared to 154 in 2007).
    According to StatCounter the blog had around 21,700 unique visitors in 2008, compared to 16,500 in 2007.
    The […]

    Merry Christmas

    Thursday, December 25th, 2008

    I hope Santy brought/brings you whatever it is you want.
    Last year was all about the Waits - if I get my way next year will too.
    So for Christmas 2008, let’s have a change of pace (while maintaining the beauty of it all).

    Have a good one.

    Tale of a coffee drinker

    Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

    Coffee is an important part of my diet, to the point that when I did briefly stop drinking it two years ago I got a day-long migraine due to caffeine withdrawal.
    My family are all tea-drinkers but I never found much grá with that particular substance. Then in my early teens I discovered cappuccino and […]

    On year three

    Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

    I was up to my eyes at the time so couldn’t mark the event properly but on the 25th July this website turned three.
    As is tradition at this stage I tend to mark this anniversary with a bit of navel gazing about what has happened in the last year, both in terms of the site […]

    A positive Dell experience

    Saturday, July 5th, 2008

    Having read Cian Ginty’s negative interaction with Dell tech support and having had my own trouble with their courier of choice, UPS, I braced myself for the worst when the power adaptor on my [10 month old] Vostro 1000 kicked the bucket last week.
    So on Thursday I rang Dell up, expecting to be without any […]

    On Newstalk for the Sunday newspaper preview

    Saturday, June 21st, 2008

    I’ll be on Newstalk’s Culture Shock at around 8:45pm this evening to go through some of tomorrow’s newspaper headlines.
    Lisbon is likely to factor heavily - as it has for the past week - but here’s hoping there’ll be some variety of topics on the agenda besides that.
    So if you’re the impatient type and can’t wait […]


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