Candygram

Every year in the run up to Halloween Jason asks some people to write short stories about candy. He then takes those words and turns them into beautifully-designed web pages: . I encourage you to revisit the wonderful tales from Jeffrey, Frank, Jim, Rob, Mandy, Erin and others.

This year I was very honoured to be asked by Jason to contribute some words of my own. For the life of me, I couldn’t think of anything specifically candy-related (or “sweets” as we would say). So instead I wrote down my memories of spending Halloween at my cousins in Kerry:

Monkey Nuts, Barmbrack and Apples

Have you published a response to this? :

Previously on this day

11 years ago I wrote Typorn

Geeking out on the printing press.

12 years ago I wrote Closed open data

When is an hCard not an hCard?

17 years ago I wrote Stop the Patent Process Madness

Wired has published an excellent article by Lauren Weinstein on the ludicrous state of Intellectual Property patents:

17 years ago I wrote The Morning News - The Opposite of Sex and the City

What if Sex and the City had been written by Beckett?…

17 years ago I wrote Guess the Dictator or Sit-Com Character

This is a scarily accurate online version of twenty questions. It didn’t take long for it to guess that I was thinking of Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties.

18 years ago I wrote Multiculturalism vs. feminism

The situation in Afghanistan has highlighted something of a dilemma for the liberal left - a group I would usually consider myself a part of.