It’s amazing the small things that can brighten a dull day. Fergus Cassidy emailed me this morning to say that Karlin Lillington’s techno-culture blog is back having been down for a long time. She explains why in the first post.
Welcome back, Ms Lillington. You were sorely missed.
Techno-culture
Fergus Cassidy

Tom Raftery has an interesting post about Remarkable Customer Service.
I could rave all day about the remarkable service from my host letshost.ie.
Always patient, interested and understanding beyond the call of duty, the guys get the problem solved with utmost courtesy.
Plus of course the sheer value of their single package. No irritating ‘home’ packages [...]

That’s the evocative title of the new press release from Dedalus, highlighting a new departure in Irish publishing. Not only are there sound clips of Dedalus poets on the website (other publishers take note), but in what may be a unique departure, the first in a new series of online poetry readings. This [...]

Sinead Gleeson over at The Sigla Blog has a lovely piece, Farewell Benedict Kiely, on the late, great writer.
See Benedict Kiely at Irish Writers Online
Benedict Kiely tribute at RTÉ News
Wikipedia entry on Benedict Kiely

My collaborator on Irish Literary Revival, Patrick Chapman, has an interview on
Authortrek.
His first collection of stories, The Wow Signal, will be published in the near future by Bluechrome in the UK.
As Todd Swift on Nthposition put it:
“If Cronenberg and Lynch were to have a child (and in some film-possible world they might) he [...]

I do my best to avoid schadenfreude - it’s kind of childish after all - but somehow, this one was too hard to resist.
You may have heard about it, so I’ll cut to the quick.
The great Italian politician and tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, made the mistake of paying some off-kilter compliments to not one, [...]