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Hopefully posts will be back to normal soon!

Apologies for the missing blog. I’m in the process of bringing most of my websites together under one Wordpress roof. Somehow or other I mucked up the Slimming for the Beach settings. I think all is well now.

Nice to see some new incoming links on logging into Wordpress. A nice literary link from Dedalus Press, and - very interesting, two Irish blog aggregators. Irish Blogs and Bloggers I knew about - I had signed up some time ago, but I hadn’t been aware of Journals.ie, who distinguish themselves by offering free [...]

Nice to see some new incoming links on logging into Wordpress. A nice literary link from Dedalus Press, and - very interesting, two Irish blog aggregators. Irish Blogs and Bloggers I knew about - I had signed up some time ago, but I hadn’t been aware of Journals.ie, who distinguish themselves by offering free [...]

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 [...]

If, according to Teilhard de Chardin, love is the “most universal, the most
tremendous, the most mysterious of the cosmic forces”, why on earth is it so difficult?
Throughout the ages poets and mystics, spiritual leaders and philosophers have sought to understand love and see how it connects to human freedom, peace, joy, suffering, [...]

I was so preoccupied with getting my appreciation of Jim Greeley online (see previous entry), I forgot to link to Morag Prunty’s beautiful trubute in The Sunday Tribune. I don’t have permission to reproduce it here, but if you are one of Jim’s family or his legion of friends, you might think it worth [...]

Jim in mid-Seventies, courtesy Paddy Doyle

Perhaps the best legacy of all is laughter. When Jim Greeley died suddenly, having just turned 53, his partner, his family and huge circle of friends were devastated. Yet when they came together to console each other, within minutes, memories of Jim released serial, healing [...]

A life-long friend of mine died suddenly early yesterday morning, collapsing on a street in Dublin near his place of work.
Obviously it is a great shock, but his many friends have gathered round to talk about him, celebrate his life and his gift of making us laugh - among his many qualities. That, [...]