Dear Irish friends,
The black out of Wikipedia, Craigslist, Boing Boing, Cyanide and Happiness, Tumblr, Reddit and more last week helped to thwart the Stop Online Piracy Act proposed in the United States Congress.

But now we have our own version of SOPA rearing its ugly head!

This law may block sites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Sites will be taken down with no warning, no mediation and no appeals outside the High Court. Irish jobs in the tech industry are at stake, as well as our international reputation!

Find out more and sign the petition »

I’m a disorganised cook. All of my favourite recipes ended up on little stained, battered scraps of paper, so I finally organised them all into concise blobs of text, and put them on a webpage. Ingredients are in orange, important actions and equipment are in blue.

Easy Recipes for the Noobish and Fearful »

Once upon a time there was a little girl who was very good and very patient. One year, at the beginning of December, she got an advent calendar to count down the days to Christmas. Each day she would wake up with delight, and open the next little cardboard door, and seize the little chocolatey prize within.

Then one day a terrible injustice happened.

The family dog, a loveable creature, but greedy to the bone, climbed all the way up the stairs on her short little legs, barged into the little girls’ room, and snuffled out the last few remaining chocolates in the advent calendar!

When the little girl discovered the looting, she was heartbroken.

Today the little girl is fully grown, but I still try to get her an advent calendar every year to make up for the time she was so very good, but her patience was punished. This year I’ve made her a digital advent calendar. Each day there is a clue to the location of a little surprise. Follow along with us!

By the way, any suggestions for really good hiding places or clues are welcome in the comments!

Just completed the next phase of akarra.com. Upgraded the layout, and added quite a bit of new content. The admin commands section in particular should be useful to people.

Quite proud of how the pixelly castle on the menu turned out.

Here is a holding page for one of my future projects. It’s called Forest Frenemies. I’m in the process of turning all the creatures pictured into knitted finger puppets.