Would you have backed me? On 20 August 2008, I sent a proposal for a business I called CloudCouch to the organisers of the Enterprise Platform Programme at Waterford Institute of Technology. I think I was a bit ahead of my time. The recession hadn’t officially hit, but I personally was feeling Read more…
I never sleep in a bed with a chair at the end of it anymore. That’s where I first saw the ghost of Watson street. A few years ago, whilst enjoying a gap year in Australia I stayed in a haunted flat in Watson Street off the Bondi Road for a while….
The Facebook status update was horrifying. Somebody had been in a dentist’s and got out of there as soon as possible after the dentist started calling her teeth “toes”. It was a candid camera moment surely, except there was no Jeremy Beadle or Mike Murphy or one of the Naked Read more…
Want to clear the air at work or at home? Go to your local health food store or delicatessen (not supermarket/corner store or something) Buy sea salt (it can be fine or coarse, it doesn’t matter) Go home/back to the office and get a chair and a fe…
As the years pass, there’s more and more potential distractions feeding into the working day. On my desktop alone there is: Twitter Skype Google Talk Email I’m online and accessible through these all day. It’s not like 10 years ago when I had to g…
By Alain de Botton The philosopher, writer and recent writer-in-residence at Heathrow airport imagines a world without aircraft. In a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old men, and hear extraordinary tales of a …
I knew some day somebody would arrive along here and wonder what the story is with the flip flops at the top of my blog. Well they’re not just any flip flop, they’re Havaianas i.e. flipflops that cost F all in Brazil where they’re made and cost a …
I have broken the curse of the E Larkins. Up until a few months ago, I had fully convinced myself that I would be the third E Larkin over three generations not to drive. On Friday, 5 February 2010, I passed my driving test first time round. So wha…
I am kind of shocked. Well, to be more precise, I am very shocked. I have been defriended on Facebook. Why, oh why, I am wondering and when did this happen? It happened sometime in the last few months, I tell ya and possibly in the last few weeks….
This time 8 years ago I wasn’t really aware of the country Laos. I was packing up my belongings in Dublin ready to fly to Bangkok in February 2002 for a six- or seven- month trip to Australia, taking in Thailand along the way. Everything changed, …