In today’s Sunday Tribune, Isabel Hayes reports on the wearing of mortarboard hats by women on graduation from Irish universities. While female graduands wear hats, male students don’t. Nobody seems to know for sure why.
When I graduated from UCD three years ago, I looked into this without much success. Despite much research by Isobel, she [...]

I woke up this morning and saw a lovely surprise in my inbox. Anthony McGuinness had kindly given me a pro flickr account! Thanks Anthony - I owe you lots of fizzy cola bottles!
This reminded me that I have not used flickr too much of late, so I have finally uploaded a couple of [...]

The StumbleUpon toolbar is a great idea. If you have it installed, you can visit a random website at the click of a button whenever you feel like it. The idea is that you will stumble upon sites which you would otherwise never have found.
StumbleUpon does not show you any old rubbish. Sites are only [...]

The BBC reports that some London hotels hugely increased their prices last night when many commuters were stranded there after yesterday’s explosions.
After seeing the whole of London pulling together in a crisis, hearing this really lets the side down. I realise that London hotels may be hit in the coming months while tourists are wary [...]