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Slán go fóill

Almost exactly two years ago, I rocked up in Dublin, in a hairdresser’s car packed to the gill, as I moved after living in London for the best part of a decade. And now, in a couple of weeks, I’ll

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Good Luck Geraldine: F*ck Off Steve

As I’ve undoubtedly said before, I love the web. It’s because of the web that I have a great job, get to bore people by publishing my views on everything from Boris Johnson (twat) to Gilles Peterson (legend), and it’s

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Nostalgia’s Not What It Used To Be

Over the last few weeks I’ve read two books, and watched one movie, that deal with early British history, as well as another book that, though centred on the Roman Empire, but with no connection to Britain, touches on many of the

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Dublin Missing Person Appeal: Blathnaid Timothy

Well, it’s nearly Christmas and most of us will be thinking of spending the next few days with our friends, families & loved ones. So, with that in mind, please have a look at the photo above, and the video

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Zipping Up My Boots…

Back in March 2000 I landed back in Blighty after just over a year of travelling, much of which I’d spent in Sydney working in one of them new fangled internet cafés. Having enjoyed my time mucking about with Hotmail

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Follow Me, Follow My NIKEiD

Right now I should be in New York but, due to the volcano (worst thing to come out of Iceland since Kerry Katona), I’m still at home. And so, for want of anything better to do, I thought I’d post

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Buy My Stuff. Help Charity

At the end of this month I’m moving house. Or, to be more precies, I’m moving from a house to a flat. For this reason, I have quite a bit of stuff that I need to get rid of and

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Next Stop, All Change

A while back I got an email from a company called canvasRus asking me if I would like a free canvas in exhance for writing about it. After recovering from the shock caused by the fact that anyone honestly cared

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It’s Not Big & It’s Not Clever

One of the things that I have always loved about working in search, and its younger sibling social, is how friendly it is. Whether it’s the way in which the crew at SEOmoz embraced me when I first started using

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Farewell To Al(together) That

Well, it’s official. I no longer work for Altogether or The Engine Group. In fact, for the next 11 days I guess that I’m officially unemployed. But a week on Monday I’ll be starting in a new role at the

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Everything on this site is the opinion of me, Ciarán Norris, and no-one else, including my employers and anyone else I know. I guess that it's probably obvious, but thought I should probably make it explicit. Anyway, enjoy!


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