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Posted in Family, Guest Posters, Parenting, Technology on Oct 18th, 2011
Lots of people’s lives were changed by Steve Jobs – but Lisa Domican, the mother of two autistic children, has a special reason to thank him. I was terribly sad to hear of the passing of Steve Jobs last Thursday. And before you ask – yes, I read about it on the Twitter App on [...]
Posted in Anti-heroes, Technology on Oct 6th, 2011
I woke up at 4am on Wednesday night, and couldn’t go back to sleep. I picked up my phone and looked at Twitter. It took roughly five seconds to realise Steve Jobs was dead. #iSad was already trending. Most of Europe wasn’t awake yet, but America was in full mourning for the man who has [...]
Posted in Technology, Web Stuff on Oct 6th, 2011
Every time the exquisite sounds of Otis Redding, Betty Harris, Allen Toussaint and The Who (to name a few out of thousands) come flowing out of the headphones or stereo system I never give a thought to the person who invented my little pocket of musical storage joy. No longer do I have to scratch [...]
Posted in Body image, Religion, Society, Sport, Technology on Jul 27th, 2011
Being something of a weight lifting fanatic myself, it was with genuine consternation and confusion that I read the following article about a 35-year-old woman who wishes to compete in weight lifting competitions. Kulsoom is Muslim, and as such unwilling to bare her arms or legs. She is now pressing for a change to the [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Books, Guest Posters, Technology on Jul 25th, 2011
At the turn of the millennium (the most misspelt word of 1999), I was in my first term of a MA in Journalism, a return to fulltime education after fifteen years of work, and loving every minute of it. Mobile phones were common enough, but not everyone had one. I was considering whether to get [...]
Posted in Personal, Random Wonderfulness, Society, Technology on Jul 18th, 2011
Every family has one. On top of the piano, on the mantelpiece framed by the Irish dancing trophies and the GAA medals, in pride of place on the ‘good dresser’ – the family portrait. That snapshot of how we are right now; all questionable outfits and wonky fringes – a soupcon of family life caught [...]
Posted in Anti Room Group Post, Personal, Random Wonderfulness, Society, Technology, Web Stuff on Apr 4th, 2011
To celebrate our 500th post, we Anti-Roomers share how the internet has changed our lives for the better – and the worse. We’d love to hear your early internet stories, life-changing online experiences and whether you love or loathe the interweb… Anna Carey The first time I went online was in 1994. I had read [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Personal, Technology, Web Stuff on Feb 7th, 2011
Facebook was a drag and I’ve de-Zuckered my life. It caused merely a wince, much like eyebrow plucking. Why? People that I hadn’t clicked with in real life I was ‘clicking with’ online and that just didn’t seem very clever. Aren’t some things in life destined to be fleeting, like people who show up in [...]
Posted in Books, Technology on Jan 28th, 2011
In this age of Kindles and iPads, e-reader this and mobile platform-that, one of the most enduring uses for good, old-fashioned paper books (how long before they’re called ‘offline reading systems?’) is as gifts. I can’t remember the last present I bought someone that wasn’t a book; and my favourite gifts to receive have pretty [...]
Posted in Advertising, Humour, Technology on Jan 10th, 2011
Now, I don’t want to pretend that I’m NOT constantly bickering with TV commercials, like an irate budgie having words with the mirror in his cage, but if there’s an ad that’s really seizing my contraband at the moment, it’s the one for Xbox Kinect’s Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. Oh, you know the one. Smug [...]
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