Who guards the guardians? O'Connell Street, Dublin

Good advertising I guess

(if you can't see the decal (and I doubt you can), it says "PEL Security Limited)

One afternoon on Frederick Street

Yesterday I was idly strolling down Frederick Street South, Dublin 2. I noticed some of the buildings at the Nassau St end had multiple alarm company logo displays http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif(there's a name for these little shields, which I'll find out). Presumably some were from now defunct companies and certainly many had rather pleasingly retro design features. My favourite: "Electronology" with their little unicorn.

I didn't have a camera, or more to the point iPhone, yesterday, but that will be rectified.

Bruce Sterling discusses the concept of the "Tomason" - "those solid parts of our urban environment which once had a definitive, eminently practical purpose but are now shorn of this, yet are still adrift and rooted in our everyday world." in his introduction to Glenn Grant's "Burning Days." Surely the defunct alarm company is an archetypal Tomason.