I’ve started on a bit of a cleanup of various distractions in my life. I’m also looking to see what I can wind down that I currently run.
I’ve deleted and blocked YouTube for a start. It’s became nothing but a timesink and I’m not …
It’s been a while since I did one of these. The world imploded a few months after the last one.
I think we can agree that the last three years have been a total shitfest for everyone. Things certainly haven’t been getting much better, and it doesn’t …
I made a decision, unconsciously, a couple of months back, to stop using Twitter. I still kept using it, but my use became more sporadic. This morning I deleted the last remaining client I had installed.
I’ve been using it for quite a while. My initial reason for joining …
Following on from last year’s post, it’s time to re-examine where I am in my life once more.
My weight has stayed surprisingly stable over the last year. I’m still overweight, and I’ve yet to hit my goal of getting below 70kg, but the …
I’ve had variants of this stuck in my drafts for a while now. It’s time I sat down and wrote down what’s been on my mind.
First of all, go read Salary Negotiation Tips from White Men in Tech (and part 2). It had been on my …
It’s coming to the end of the year, and I figure it’s a good time to review what went well over the past year, what went poorly, and how things can go better.
First up, and most important, is that I found a few great friends …
I haven’t posted here in two years. This site was meant to be a way for me to start writing something more than post random crap on Twitter. I’ve failed at that, but I’d like to try again.
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What’s written above was accurate when I …
…or why it’s sometimes a good idea to just completely walk away.
I’ve been working on something here at work that really, really ought to have been done a good long time back. But between this and that, being pulled hither and thither, and having lots of other …
I’ve to check out of the hotel at 12pm. My flight’s just after 7pm. I might be meeting up with Mark later, which would help kill a lot of time. Of course, that’s all moot unless I can check in early.
Good news is I managed to …
I don’t know whether it was that I picked up the ‘flu that’s been going around the office, or if I ate something bad while I was here, but I was in a complete mess Friday and Saturday. I was completely out of my head Saturday morning, but …
I received the DSL modem earlier today. I’m just testing it out right now. It’s sooooo fast! This rocks!
One annoyance though: I ordered a DSL modem with a wireless hub built in so that I could work in peace and quiet and not have to sit in …
After three months of trying to get broadband off them, first satellite and later DSL, I’ve finally got Digiweb to activate my DSL.
This all really should have been done a month ago, but until today, they’ve kept putting me off, giving excuses like “we’re waiting on …
[Update from 2020: This post is mean. I appear to have been very angry at myself when I wrote this. It looks like it turned into an exercise in beating myself up. Some of it did come true: I got up to 105kg a few years ago, but managed to …
Right now I’m worried. I haven’t posted up anything since it happened because I didn’t know what to write, but I’m worried about Thérèse and Vinnie, two friends of mine who are travelling through SE Asia right now.
I haven’t heard word from them in …
I’ve been keeping quiet about this for ages, but now I can talk about it.
Some of my friends are after opening a gaming café here in Cork. The quality of the existing ones isn’t that great and, seeing as we all go gaming pretty often, they decided …
Sweet mother!
I had to head off to CIT to pick up some tickets for the graduation ball. When I got back to the offices, things were fine, but Dan’s after looking outside the window, and the city’s completely flooded! It took just 40mins for a one-foot deep …
I was looking at my feeds earlier, and peeking through Simon Willison’s weblog feed, and spotted a reference to Live Bookmarks in it. Go take a look at the screenshot: it looks frighteningly similar to a cross between Sage and a cut-down version of what I described for Mocha …
