Jackson Aquitted
Vows to devote rest of life to “searching for the real molester“ ..
Minor Tinkering
I've added a google search box here, which you can use to search the tuppenceworth. ie site for anything you like. It is part of the adSense set of tools, so when you do there will be ads from Google also displayed.
Four Court Doors- Call for Objectors
As you can see in the post below I've finished drafting my objection to the alterations to the Four Courts front door. I won't rehash what I say below. But I did send around an email today, effectivly to most of my contacts (or those who are Irish, at least) alerting people to the proposal, and asking them to let me know if they would like to add their name to the objection.
Four Courts Planning Objection
Objection to Application for Planning PermissionDevelopment Erection of Railings in Front Portico of Four Courts Building.
Data Retention? Look over there! Shiny Paper on a Stick!
Why is it that I don't get a coherent view of what's happening from my papers and telly? I want to see dots joined up- stories in one part of a paper make reference to related stories in another part. And I want to see a clear presentation of cause and effect- if you let x happen then Y will occur.
What would the reasonable man on the Clapham Omnibus say?
http://breakingnews. iol. ie/news/story.
The Digested Breakfast DJ
Missed your favourite morning DJ show? Worried that the Pop Gossip (ah, Simon Young, where are you now?) and the all-important 'On This Day' knowledge that your workplace status is built around will now pass to some other attentive listener?Fear not, for here at Tuppenceworth, we're always on the look out for ways to save you time and worry.
Objecting to Planning Permission Applications
I've just sat down to start drafting the objection to the plan to close off the front door of Gandon's Four Courts with railings. (Which I've written about previously here, here and here) It is very hard to know where to start. If anyone has a model objection (one which was successful, for preference.
Honey, I’ve lost the kid!
Just spotted the attached story on http://www. examiner. ie.
Everything Old is New Again
Conceptual Art is tottering now. I wrote about this topic obliquely in my review of the Douglas Hyde Gallery's Exhibition of Rivane Neuenschwander's work, and explicitly for the now defunct magazine of the now defunct Artist's Association of Ireland in Petrified RevolutionariesI'll write more on this, probably a full essay, I think, when I've finished thinking it through.
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