|  Princess Sparkle  |  8 Feb 2011  |  No Comment  |
Yearning for the simple things in life

So as my brain releases itself from the depths of winter, I can literally feel my motivation and inspiration levels returning to something I’d like to think of as normal. In a distilled philosophy of several things that I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of months, I’ve been finding myself attracted to the simple and wonderful things that make me smile.

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|  The Pikey  |  8 Jan 2011  |  No Comment  |  
Inclination Episode #1

The first instalment of theclinic’s weekly updates. This time poker player David Kilmartin Lappin of the Dublin Bellybusters poker group has also detailed some of the items, tools, technologies and entertainment that keeps him going.
Tech:
Lappin has gone and bought an iPad (iPad2 coming soon apparently) and he says its great for traveling around with recent trips to New York and Dublin. It is mainly used for browsing and reading books but one the the other features which has been great is Skype as in the US he is still without …

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|  The Pikey  |  31 Dec 2010  |  No Comment  |  
Very Random Episode 2

OK, so while this was supposed to be random, I honestly didn’t plan on it being 6 months since my last confession. Anyway I tried to some random person on my Skype to review some of the latest and greatest  however everyone seems busy or still stuffing their faces with pie from XMas.
Anyhow, lets catch up on some of the coolest stuff released recently and I will also see what i did with the items I discussed last time.
Tech: I am now migrated onto WordPress 3 and it seems to …

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|  Princess Sparkle  |  28 Oct 2010  |  No Comment  |  
No time to share, and Google doesn’t make it easier!

So I may have been away for a while, but whilst I’ve been sharing stuff with Google Reader, Google’s been hiding it away. Click through and find out what’s been inspiring me the last few weeks.

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|  Princess Sparkle  |  20 Aug 2010  |  No Comment  |  
GAP and Groupon and Stupid People

So I was one of the 441,000 people that yesterday, took part in Groupon’s first national offer-o’-the-day. Spend $50 at Gap, and we’ll give you $25 off.
I need new pants and socks, how can a boy say no.
So the 440,999 other people invested their $25 and accrued over $11 million, in one day. I think that sounds pretty good. They are getting huge social buzz and a guaranteed 440,000 extra store visitors (before the end of November) and yes, store visitors, the coupon is not valid on line or at …

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|  Princess Sparkle  |  11 Aug 2010  |  No Comment  |  
Real TouchScreen Innovation

I’ve had a lot of issues with touch screen developments, in the same way that websites in the early 2000′s and 90′s tried to replicate physical things without rethinking their content for the digital space, I’ve found that a lot of touch experiences simply try and imitate web or physical predecessors.