That up there is a concept car called a Mazda Furai. It has a 450HP Renesis engine, and… oh never mind. You probably don’t care. Just look at it. Look at the beauty of it. I would give anything to drive this car. I’ve talked before about how I love cars and I love to drive. The Furai is the car I want to own, if the stars align and reality is bent and somehow [...]

I had stalled on the Novel there for a while. I get writer’s block the same way I get insomnia – suddenly, viciously, and fleetingly – and while it’s annoying, it’s nothing I can’t get over given a little time. I’d say I get off lightly. The Wikipedia article on writer’s block suggests that people can suffer from it for years at a time, something that I can barely imagine even in my wildest dreams. [...]

It’s safe to say that I read a ridiculous amount of material every day. I’m a speed reader by nature, so the 300-500 items I get daily through my RSS feeds don’t seem like much. I read so fast that I’d probably be bored otherwise. It has its drawbacks, of course. It’s very nearly pointless for me to buy books casually anymore; they’ll last me a few hours, if that, and then I have to [...]

So, I met with a few other writer friends today, and we got talking about characters in situations with which we, personally, might not be familiar. For example, I know nothing about New York. Hence, I know nothing about what life is like there, nor what trains run in the subway, what slang people use, what neighbourhoods are there. I might want to set a story in New York, but I doubt I could do [...]

In the aftermath of the High Court decision regarding the three strikes malarky with Eircom, it seems that the licensing authorities in Ireland have decided to start cracking down on all kinds of content both online and offline. Two stories in particular have crossed my path. The Irish Music Rights Organisation (IMRO) have sent out notices to a number of large, non-profit Irish music blogs that they must buy a license in order to offer [...]