Archive for November, 2007
Gotta love the tax office!
No, I’m actually not kidding! The title is not as ironic as one might think – the truth is I was very well impressed by the Irish Revenue Commissioners Office.
The quality of service they provide makes paying tax (and especially claiming relief on it :D ) seem a bliss compared to other systems in other [...]
Irish car registration plates
What about them?
Well, I just thought this is one of the things I like about Ireland. A small detail, however the car registration plates here give you a very good idea about the age of the car. Their format is [YY]-[CountyCode]-[SequenceNumber], so that for example the one-hundredth-second car registered in Dublin in 1998 would have [...]
Meet the enemy: Laziness
Time and again I realize that laziness is every man’s greatest enemy. Especially when you start setting higher goals for yourself, that require regular sustained activity/effort, laziness will be the little voice in your head telling you that you can postpone things – “I can do this later…”
Obviously the more motivated you are towards your [...]
The road is still long
For a while now I’ve been thinking about creating a collection of the lyrics that I feel defined me at a certain moment in my life. I imagined this would be some kind of dedicated section of my site, but having them as tagged/categorized posts in a blog should do just as nice.
I should probably [...]
Life is a journey.
I am a passenger.
This is my journal.
This was going to be it. My first post – done. But as I wrote the words, spinning red alarms started in my head. I thought a bit. Looked up “passenger¹” in the dictionary. Then wrote the following.
I often thought about the meaning of the saying “Life is a [...]