For the past few weeks, some of the on-air team of KCLR have been prepping for the annual Mary Slattery Memorial Cycle, a charity cycle run each June bank holiday weekend by the Chernobyl Kilkenny Outreach Group for Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International. Having taken part myself the past two years (including the near biblical…
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Turning Attentions To Arts & Culture
THE ARTS, with theatre in particular, is quite close to my heart. One of the most enjoyable things I’ve done in years finished recently when I wrapped up a six month artist residency at 76 John Street, Kilkennny with The Devious Theatre Company. The purpose of the residency was to allow the company time to…
What Is Being Creative?
What is being creative? from Kristian Ulrich Larsen on Vimeo. We may not always create or invent, but we always learn when we try. If this phone ever goes from concept to production, you can count me in. The flip phone is based on a concept conceived during a six-week long workshop by Kristian Ulrich…
So much Science and Technology in Cycling
photo credit: Let Ideas Compete THERE IS so much technology in cycling. I don’t think I realised it at first. But over a month on from picking up a bike and telling myself I’m cycling to Sligo (which is this Friday), I’m finding out that there is an insane amount of technology behind cyling. Between…
Kilkenny Arts Festival Needs You
I’m back on the festival trail again this year with the Kilkenny Arts Festival and they’re looking for volunteers (see Facebook) on the ground and on the road from August 5th to 20th (the festival itself runs from August 6th to 15th this year). There is no previous experience necessary for festival volunteers, with the…
May Everyone Everywhere Find Their Way
It’s rare enough that I’ll pop my head up to share an advertising video, but the theatrical side of me really likes this extended viral for Nokia’s SatNav campaign. Between work and new ventures in the past two months I’ve found myself on the road a lot, have taken many wrong turns in Dublin, some…
Apprentice Applications Close May 3rd
APPLICATIONS to be on the third series of TV3’s The Apprentice close on Monday May 3rd. I’ve followed the show for the past two series, loved it and sure enough, while good chunks of the show are shot for a TV audience, you’d have to admit that the series makes for great viewing as the…
The Blog Awards, The Video, The Aftermath
SATURDAY took myself and a few hundred bloggers on a journey across the country to Galway or the fifth annual Irish Blog Awards. We had the motorway up, the scenic route home and in between had a fantastic evening / night / morning in the Radisson Blu in the centre of Galway, the shindig organised…
Let The Tech Investments Roll
photo credit: SocialGrow PayPal. eBay. Facebook. LinkedIn and, now, IBM. Between them in recent months they’ve announced hundreds of new jobs. PayPal had announced recently that they were adding 200 to their Dublin base, Brian Cowen had a smile on his face when he let the news out that eBay would be creating up to…
WiFi Digital Camera Addon – Eye Fi
WIRELESS TRANSFER of photos in an otherwise non-wifi enabled digital camera. How? Eye-Fi. Yes, I would like one of these. Try as I might, I usually end up walking away from the house or the office without the cable to connect my camera to the laptop. When it comes to transferring photos on the move,…