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I'm a 31-year-old Irishman, living in Dublin, harbouring ambitions to do something different. I used to work in a call-centre. I quit in October 2007 to try to make a living as a blogger. Wish me luck!

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Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: Duckman, Private Dick, Family Man: 1 of 1
I've started watching Duckman from the beginning again last night. Duckman - full title 'Private Dick, Family Man' - was released in 1994 and ran for four seasons before being cancelled. The star of the show, Eric Tiberius Duckman, voiced by Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld), is a rude, obnoxious, unsuccessful loud mout... More..
Home & Garden > Home Interior How to make a Bonsai Tree: 5 of 9
My fridge contains nothing now except seeds for trees to grow as bonsai, bottles of beer and expired smoothies. My interest in bonsai began with The Karate Kid and ended pretty quickly afterwards. I did make an attempt to grow a bonsai from a tree clipping as a child after I had seen the film. Clipping might be too grand a w... More..
Jobs & Careers > Occupations (Other) Readers share their first jobs: 25 of 42
The great advantage of working in a dead-end job is that it doesn't really matter what you do in the end. People aren't likely to die if you press the wrong button. The funny thing is that I only realized this recently. I've been working in dead-end jobs since I started working. My first job was counting cars. There were sev... More..
Other Grocery shopping horror stories: 40 of 62
Super-markets are big and scary places when they're full of hungry shoppers. The biggest one I remember seeing was some time in my childhood. I can't remember how young I was, but I wasn't very old anyway, when I was taken by my mother from the quiet countryside where I was growing up to my uncles house in the big city for s... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles Is it better to live in the city or the country?: 79 of 117
I have asked myself this question at different stages in my life and come up with different answers. Firstly as a child growing up in the country in the west of Ireland I didn't realize that there was any question. I felt happy to grow up in the country and was free to roam around in complete safety. I went to a school where... More..
Society & Lifestyle > European Culture The celebration of Guy Fawkes Night in the UK: 20 of 27
November 5th in 1605 was the day a group of Catholics in England led by Robert Catesby planned to blow up the English Houses of Parliament, along with the King and his son and all the parlimentarians and clergymen inside. The intention was that the blowing up of Parliament would signal the start of a Catholic rebellion. The ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Should you quit your day job to blog?: 36 of 43
It is a tempting idea. I'll have to resist it for now though. So far my landlord is stubbornly refusing to accept blog entries as payment and insists on money. I find the same old-fashioned attitudes all around me: grocery and clothes shops, all types of services and utilities, each one looking for currency or at least the p... More..
Other Where did the joke 'why did the chicken cross the road' come from and why is it funny?: 11 of 11
Firstly, I don't know the answer to the question in the title so this is me asking rather than me explaining. And I don't know why it's funny either. I don't even know if it is funny. But what is funny is that I think I can still remember the first time I heard it, even though I was very young. It is probably one of my earli... More..
Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Choosing a blog platform: 8 of 8
It's always good to do some research before you jump into things. I know this. I often give this advice to other people. One day I may heed it myself. There on Tuesday night I was hit with the inspiration to register a domain name and set up web-space for my bonsai blog. The inspiration struck when I thought of a good domain... More..