Wish I had a vote on Lisbon

Hoons, Ireland 13 September 2009 2 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/09/13/wish-i-had-a-vote-on-lisbon/’;
digg_title = ‘Wish I had a vote on Lisbon’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Living as I currently do in Dublin, I see the Lisbon Treaty referendum happening all around me. I am a British citizen, so I have no vote. Quite right, citizens of other nations shouldn’t have a say on the constitution of Ireland.
But, listening [...]

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Dublin Pride

unstupidity 27 June 2009 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/06/27/dublin-pride/’;
digg_title = ‘Dublin Pride’;
digg_bodytext = ‘As a straight man, I love Dublin Pride as a spectacle above all. A festival of bright colour, an astoundingly optimistic and positive oasis in a year where all news seems to be bad.
Today was great fun, and took place in sweltering, vicious sun. These photos, all [...]

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Initial review o iPhone 3GS in Ireland.

gadgets 26 June 2009 4 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/06/26/initial-review-o-iphone-3gs-in-ireland/’;
digg_title = ‘Initial review o iPhone 3GS in Ireland.’;
digg_bodytext = ‘So, the wait is over, and I have my hands on the iPhone 3GS. Ireland apparently only has black editions of the phone, but I managed to get a 32GB model.
The staff at the Dublin Henry Street store were exceptionally professional and [...]

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Doing the Connected Citizen, Digital Nomad thing

gadgets, technology, the interwebs, this blog 28 January 2009 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2009/01/28/doint-the-connected-citizen-digital-nomad-thing/’;
digg_title = ‘Doing the Connected Citizen, Digital Nomad thing’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Am sitting upstairs in Dublin’s Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, on the steps of the 98FM broadcast booth, with my Eee PC 901 on one knee, uploading photos to the cloud I took just minutes ago on my Nikon D60 Digital SLR, then checking [...]

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Blogging Dublin

this blog 1 August 2008 0 Comments

digg_url = ‘http://nabidana.com/2008/08/01/blogging-dublin/’;
digg_title = ‘Blogging Dublin’;
digg_bodytext = ‘Dublin, I was often told by my erstwhile friends in Northern Ireland, is a bad place, the enemy of my state, the great danger to my people. It is a scary place, it’s noisy and it can be bewildering.
It’s also amazing, surprising, exciting and immense fun. Any [...]

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