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Invite: Join the Paper Round

Posted on 08/11/2006 by Simon McGarr
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I hope I might be able to interest you in an idea I’ve had floating around my head for a while. Just as a once off, I’d like to recruit bloggers (and non-bloggers too) to read the papers over one … Continue reading →

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Suggestions of Movement by Treemo on TOS

Posted on 05/10/2006 by Simon McGarr
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A little while ago I added Treemo to my list of Video sharing sites whose Terms and Conditions I forced myself to read for your benefit. Well, Treemo’s Aaron Racine responded as so: Thanks for sharing your thoughts about our … Continue reading →

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Why Podcasting is harder than it looks

Posted on 26/09/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Podcasting is very hard work. Videocasting would be insanely hard work. This is because there are two very difficult parts to any successful effort in either- preproduction and post-production. Most people only see the effort as being the bit in … Continue reading →

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Creativity and Mental Illness

Posted on 06/09/2006 by Sarah Byam
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Mental illness and creativity often go hand in hand. Some say the figure is as high as 70 percent. So the question that has been asked, by artists and non artists alike – does one have to be a little bit mad to create art? And, without that spice of madness, would the artist be driven to create anything at all? Is it possible that art is only the by product of a tortured soul trying to resolve herself? Continue reading →

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Hope

Posted on 30/08/2006 by Sarah Byam
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So I got down on my knees, and then my legs cramped, and so I got down on all fours like a Muslim prays and I begged for help. I prayed as I have never prayed before, completely opening up my broken heart and sobbing, asking the Lord to take a load that which I could no longer carry. Never in my life have I done this. Always I have prayed for strength.

And this morning I was well. Continue reading →

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What Tuppenceworth.ie is about

Posted on 29/08/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Everyday life is the only thing most of us know. And I’m proud to have played a part in the creation of meaning, and sometimes art, from the everyday. Continue reading →

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Puppet Man

Posted on 28/08/2006 by William Kincaid
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My mother worked at a doctor’s office while I was in sixth grade. She would bring home syringes with the needles broken off for us to play with. Draw up a few cc’s of water and it’d shoot like a … Continue reading →

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Irish Voter Registration Form

Posted on 28/08/2006 by Simon McGarr
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I’ve mentioned before that the number of seats with a winning margin of less than 500 doubled from the 1997 election to the 2002 one- from 9 to 18. Of those, in the last election, two were decided by less … Continue reading →

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Right?

Posted on 02/08/2006 by Mattie Lennon
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I’m not one of them and if you are you represent 10% of the population. You may have been discriminated against and subjected to cruelty in the past. Even today the other 90% don’t fully understand you even though you … Continue reading →

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Administrative Errors

Posted on 24/07/2006 by Simon McGarr
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Tuppenceworth’s main page and site have been unchanging for so long some of you may have wondered why. Well, for once, my laziness is not the full answer. I don’t seem to be able to access the site through dreamweaver- … Continue reading →

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