Map Your Motivations To Clarify Career Goals. This is the kind of shite I hate, but unfortunately, being a worker drone in a multinational corporation means I need 'career goals'....

CRIMSON ROOM - A bloody difficult puzzle game.

Wow your friends with Erotic Origami.

Pretty impressive chat/collaboration environment: Collab.

St Patrick's day shenanigans - Ronnie Drew with a half naked woman; of course, BP Fallon had to be involved.

I'm back from France after an eventful and stressful journey accompanying an injured friend via an alternative route which included baggage mayhem at Gatwick and Ryanair selling the two extra seats our insurance company had reserved (and paid for) to accomodate my friend's broken leg. Never again will I fly with Ryanair. They can take their 'low fares' and shove then up their anzuzes.

I'm off skiing for the week so there'll be no posting here until the 22nd at earliest....See you folks!

Surprise, surprise: Ireland tops EU alcohol consumption table.

Margot Knight's extraordinarily strange images

A flash Sonic the Hedgehog game.

An interesting left brain/right brain challenge: The Colour Test

The Smile Shop: all about Brian Wilson's lost Beach Boys masterpiece 'Smile' which is finally due for release later this year.

Remember what Feb 29 means?

This morning in Galway, we're having the first right bit of snow so far this year. As usual, the country has come to a standstill. Most of the rural schools are closed (and some of the city ones) and as of the time of writing the majority of my colleagues who live outside town still haven't turned up for work. Its amazing the disruption a couple of inches of snow can cause.

The story of the computer modem.

Wise words: Lightweight living.

Music news: Cash family blocks haemorrhoid ad.

Would you spend €3000 on a new book about Muhammad Ali? And that's only the collectors edition. The 'Champs edition' is €7,500! Check out the promo website here.

Once again, I and a few compadres attempted the annual Galway Arts festival Rock n' Pop table quiz last night. Although I felt we did quite well in general (I think we finished 9th) we were nowhere near good enough to win the thing - Next year, I think we'll need someone who's familiar with the first 15 seconds of the intro to every song that made the charts in the last year (and who knows the difference between Mary J Blige and Missy Elliott).

Surprise, surprise - not everyone likes living in Galway.