A Dublin Notebook – For All Your Capital Thoughts!

In my last post Me Versus Wayne Gretzky –No Competition! I indicated that I had a cunning plan for the photos I didn’t enter in a recent photography competition.

This is the result – an 80 page lined notebook with a Dublin theme available to buy online.

I’ve shown it to a couple of people and they [...]

In Bed with Sebastian Barry

I blame the weather.

We’d planned to get up at 7am and head off for a walk around Howth Head. Either we misheard the forecast, or Met Éireann got it wrong, either way the sunshine we expected before the inevitable showers was nowhere to be seen.

Plan B kicked in.

We stayed in bed with [...]

The Fonts of All Knowledge

Here I am typing on a laptop and every character I select appears magically on my screen.

We’ve come a long way since 1455 when Johannes Gutenberg invented a metal movable type printing press.

We’ve certainly come a long way since the Phoenicians developed an alphabet, since the Sumerians developed cuneiform writing and since the Egyptians developed hieroglyphs.

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