Faraway, So Close

TLDR; I'm doing a podcast episode a day. The podcast is called Daily(ish). You can check it out here, and subscribe in various apps here.When I coming to the end of my Selfie a Day project (debrief post here) I was honestly surprised by people asking me w

As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there's two more "selfie of the day" posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project. I thought I'd do a bit of a review of my thoughts about this project, as well as write about my plans for what I'm doing f

Feeling a bit nostalgic for the old web, I posted this thought this morning:How long has it been since you hopped around the web from blog to website to a different blog to someone's about page to yet another website? I miss the old ways when it was a bit

Sad news from Ireland via the Irish Independent:Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard has died overnight in a motorcycle crash in Dublin's Lucan. The renowned musician was killed in the single-vehicle crash near Strawberry Beds in the early

From RTE:Bad: The Song That Saved My Life explores Rowen's life, from his childhood on Dublin's northside to his struggles with trauma and heroin addiction, and the friendship that connected him with Bono and other figures from Dublin's 1980s music scene.

By now you've probably heard or seen plenty of reactions, reviews, and commentary to Apple's WWDC keynote yesterday so feel free to skip mine a day late. I used my Threads account to post my reactions / thoughts about the keynote as I was watching it and

Quick version:I'm switching to Patreon to send out my email newsletters. Sign up here to keep receiving my weekly(ish) Tuesday newsletters.Longer version:Why Move? I Fear Change!I still have a lot of love for Buttondown (the email newsletter service I'm s

I'm still working through Noah Kahan's new album, The Great Divide. Maybe I'll write a track-by-track review someday. But the last song on the album, 'Dan', is one of my favourites so far.Everybody's asleep, let's talk about himLet's talk about high schoo

Over on Threads (Twitter-like social network, owned by Facebook / Meta), a few months ago they added a feature called "ghost posts" that's a lot like Snapchat or Instagram Stories in that anything you set as a ghost post disappears after 24 hours.Plug you

I know there's plenty of commercial and make money push behind the #MayTheFourth movement, but I still love seeing all the Star Wars nerds showing their love for the galaxy every year.Andor-the 2 season series on Disney+ created and produced by Tony Gilro