Tom Murphy, an old school IT technician understands there is nothing more frustrating than a computer acting in direct contravention of your wishes.

In extreme cases, the forces of logic can no longer be employed – sheer brute force is the only answer.

That’s why he’s created a website about the therapeutic practice of smashing up old pcs. Tom recommends some ways of engineering your pcs demise. The keyboard power drill method barely warrants any explanation and surprisingly the formulation Monitor + Hammer = Good Clean Fun doesn’t require any scientific expertise.

If you have any kind of phobias relating to electrocution or a fear of power drills do think twice about attacking your computer. PC destruction should always be supervised by a fully certified, fully qualified lunatic.

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This weekends recommend is the near legendary Lisdoonvarna Match Making festival.

Matchmaking is one of the oldest traditions in Ireland but that’s not to say it can’t work with a modern twist. Michael from East Limerick has laid out his credentials on Youtube

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The online Dictonary of Everyday English and Slang in Ireland gives descriptions of all your favourite Irish-isms.

Whether it's the difference between a gurrier and a gullier or the definition of a Dickey Dazzler, this list makes the richness and diversity of our gaelic language pale in comparison.

Even Peig Sayers would be hard pushed to find a phrase to match the resonance of "as useless as a chocolate teapot" and our own unique version of rhyming slang has made the language less mundane.

Consider this.

"I had an Arthur Power, met the skin and blister jumped on the Daniel Day, popped into the battle cruiser and finished up with a Bill Murray."
Stumped - here’s the nornal translation.
"I had a shower, met my sister, jumped on the luas, popped into the boozer and finished up with a curry."

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Arch comedian and American musical satirist Roy Zimmerman is posing an interesting question on Youtube

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This weekends recommend is the festival of world cultures taking place in Dun Laoghaire....

....featuring a kaleidoscopic programme of international art and culture and the amazing Mr Whippy Soundsystem described as a disco swirl garden party with djs playing live from an ice cream van.

It sounds crazy but it might just work - food and music always mix well – take this youtube vid from Paddy McDaddy

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We, the popcorn-munching, taco-crunching screen-peering masses have been drip fed the same regurgitated movie formulas for far too long.

Whilst we procrastinate, one website investigates with the top 6 movie formulas which should be stopped and why.

Let’s see - there’s the film where the ultra masculine action star gets stuck with a small child or children.

But, muscle men aren’t supposed to have sensitive sides. Sensitive sides are no use when you’re propelling rockets at rampaging terrorists and the middle of a blood bath is no place for McAuley Culkin.

Unless he’s starring in that other Hollywood fave - the film about psychotic litte kids who terrorize adults see Children of the Corn or the Omen or better still, don’t, if you think the idea of 9 year olds terrorising the neighbourhood is somewhat far fetched.

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Blessed are the geeks for they shall inherit the earth. If information is power, then the geek is the human overlord....

....their craniums crammed to capacity with the juicy fruits of the tree of knowledge.

The lesser-mortalled amongst us may not have random access to so much information but now we do have online access thanks to one website which answers thousands of trivial requests.

Next time someone asks you what is the humane way to euthanize a fish, what are the advantages of glass shelving or what is antidisestablishmentarianism you can give a knowing smirk, retire to your local internet emporium and find the answer in moments.

Your new found geekiness might have some downsides expect derision from your trendy friends and revulsion from the opposite sex but think of the bigger picture. After all, who would you like to be Bill Gates or Paris Hilton ?

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This weekends recommend has to be the Rose Of Tralee

And speaking of famous - former reality star Sam Bush has an interesting internet proposition….

He wants you and 49,999 other people to become band managers. Sam’s ambitions aren’t exactly modest - "to gain a million fans" and "to arrange a uk 12 date tour, and become a uk number 1"

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Last year, we reported on dogcatradio.com - the hugely successful online radio station playing strictly pet friendly sounds.

Now, say hello to Dog Island - an utopian retreat where you can send your pet pooch to enjoy facilities like Health & Fitness Dog Boot Camp and a Family Building Mentoring Center.

The island is the brain child of some dogologists and already, their research has led to some alarming conclusions. Dogolist Huland Niles placed microphones in caves on the island to record dogs playing with sounds.

These recordings resulted in the supposedly soothing sounding Dogology album now available to buy and featuring bizarre stereo hound sounds

It seems like a nice idea but when it comes to Dog Island it seems like it’s not just the dogs who are barking

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Back in the day, before reality tv brought zzzzzzzzzzzzzz-list celebrities into our lives, we had no choice but to watch tv on the tv.

Now many people are changing the goggle box for the google box and finding their entertainment online. Mindful of this, the Minisode Network is producing rose tinted TV gold.

Minisodes are episodes of your favourite tv shows like TJ Hooker, Starsky and Hutch and Fantasy Island artfully edited down to 5 minutes. It's all tv killer with no sub plot filler and surprisingly good too. In fact, watching truncated re-runs of Starsky and Hutch makes you wonder why it took so long to catch the baddies the first time around.

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This weekends recommend is the Dublin Horse Show. Expect to see some world class showjumping from an international field of competitors.

The makers of todays website are also experts in their field although their field is slightly less inhabited and crammed with junked c-60 cassette tapes.

The site is built to showcase the amazing beauty found in the designs of the common audio tape cassette from early 60's functional designs through colourful playfulness of the 70's to amazing shape variations of the 80's and 90's.

The I-Pod generation may not understand the concept of a b side but some of us remember the three long weeks it took to make our first mix tape on our boxy double tape deck.

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Wikipedia is a free online encyclpaedia freely edited by millions of contributors around the world

Contentious issues are often hotly debated resulting in sometimes trivial edit wars

If you thought your life was ordinary or mundane it's probably a high octane rollicking rollercoaster ride in comparison to the lives of the people who are debating whether Daffy Duck did or didn't father any children.

And, it's depressing to think that the combined intellect of the internet can't resolve questions like - was Cranky Kong the original Donkey Kong, is cauliflower nutritious, should Istanbul have a speck over the I.

Thankfully, consensus has been reached on some questions. The edit war regarding former wrestling star Andre the Giant's height (was he 7`1 or 7`4) led to the eventual compromise - he's tall, let's just leave it at that.

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You know that feeling where you know a songs sound but you don’t know it’s name

Todays website helps you name that tune. You sing the song into your pc microphone and the system locates the nearest match.

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Ireland’s first ever International Garden Festival blooms until September in County Laois.

Featuring an array of contemporary international designers, this showcase proves that gardening is no longer the sole preserve of the pensioner posse.

Even the internet is taking heed. Witness some uber cool gardening gadgets being sold by one website

Rrevitalizing hard compacted soils and making an urban fashion statement have never been compatible pursuits – until now thanks to aerated sandals – which push mini spikes into the soil as you walk, airing your soil as you go.

Cross germinate a trowel and a rake and you get…. well…. a trake – a kind of mutant, double ended garden tool

Finally, calling all romantics. Forget about the bunch of flowers and try the amazing message plant. It comes in a can and grows to reveal the message I Love You on it’s leaves

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