Macrolog

Macrolog entries posted in June 2004

Gecko Thu 24 Jun 2004
Gecko on a wall in Brooklyn, Pretoria.

Brooklyn Square Balcony Fri 18 Jun 2004
View from a balcony at Brooklyn Square.

Bloomsday Notes Wed 16 Jun 2004
So today was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day on which the events of James Joyce’s Ulysses take place. And it completely passed me by, as I had other, more pressing matters at hand. But I feel that I’ve...

Burnett & Hilda Tue 15 Jun 2004
A somewhat glary shot from the shade at the corner of Burnett and Hilda in Hatfield, Pretoria....

The Other Brooklyn Mon 14 Jun 2004
No, it’s not that Brooklyn. It’s the other Brooklyn; the one in Pretoria, South Africa....

LUAS on Abbey St. Sun 13 Jun 2004
I happened to be in town running errands on Friday afternoon while one of the new LUAS trams was parked on Middle Abbey Street for a ‘safety awareness day’, presumably in preparation for the opening of the first phase...

The Voting Conundrum Sat 12 Jun 2004
Yesterday, polling stations across Ireland were opened for a triple-header of local council elections, European Parliament elections, and the citizenship referendum. And for the first time in my enfranchised life, I’m ashamed to admit, until I got my ballot papers...

Big Sky Wed 09 Jun 2004
The sky over Dublin looked exceptionally wispy this morning, so I grabbed a couple of shots for my personal edification.

Eoin & Joana Tue 08 Jun 2004
I had dinner at Wagamama on Monday afternoon with Eoin and Joana, and snapped this quick photo of them on the way out.

AIDS/LifeCycle Sat 05 Jun 2004
This week, Mat Honan (the man who got me into weblogs back in the day) is participating in AIDS/LifeCycle, a seven-day-long bike ride organised to help beneficiaries providing services to people — people just like you and me — living...

Interview Post Mortem, Revisited Wed 02 Jun 2004
Yesterday morning, I was interviewed for a place on this year’s MA course in journalism at the Dublin Institute of Technology. If you’re a regular reader of this site, you might remember I wrote about my interview for the same...

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This page is a reverse chronology of Macrolog entries by MacDara Conroy published in June 2004. You will find many more in the Archives.


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