Team Geared Up

James over at EirePreneur points out a cool new MIT research project. The $100 laptop, designed to get it into the hands of people around the world where no best suited to the environment. See: MIT’s $100 laptop. Basically it’s a laptop with a few cool features, including the price! The [...] Read More »

TheShortSpan - Bouldering in Ireland tells the story of the words IRA 26 chipped into one of the famous bouldering rocks “Big Jim” or “Running Rock!” as some people know it… Two weekends ago a large group hanging around Big Jim in Glendalough noticed this etching on th[...] Read More »

New North Wicklow Google Earth Update Originally uploaded by r1g2b3. Google Earth now has some great hi-res imagery of North Wicklow. Interestingly enough, it’s in the Winter, and the top of Tonduff is snowy… A rare occasion! Check it out yourself by downloading at http://earth.goog[...] Read More »

I would have been in a major bad mood yesterday. Got home from the Sports Complex in the dark with lashing rain, pulled my bag out of my car boot, zip was open… I hear a loud splash & crack noise… I knew it was my iPod. Crap. Without looking down, I knew my â‚Ã[...] Read More »

I had this great comment come in during the week that I’ve been meaning to Podcast but never got around to it, so I’m blogging it now. In this post a columnist makes fun of everest summiteers basically saying he wished he climbed it before a one-armed man did, as it degrades the task. W[...] Read More »

Glad to inform you all, we’re back on schedule with the Blog. We’re now using Wordpress rather than Blogger which at 400 posts, I felt we had out-sized. Publishing always took an eternity with it. Despite losing my connection for the entire day thanks to errorcom (eircom) and losing it p[...] Read More »

Maybe this has something to it, especially for road walking! I can’t help think of watching someone trying to get something out of it without taking off the belt though! The Hipster: ” The unusual and humorous joining of the human form and and external trailer, normally associated with [...] Read More »

http://www.findmeatent.com/tents/Tent%20Cot/Double%20Size/ Q1) Why? Q2) no further Questions. [...] Read More »