I’ve Switched… (sort of)

22Feb07

A couple of weeks ago I finally did what I’ve been promising to do for months now and finally bought myself a Mac. Originally I was going to pick up a MacMini but I already have one desktop machine in the house and it was going to be hard to justify buying another one.
I [...]

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Adam Rojek in India

16Feb07

Very briefly because I’m at work but Adam Rojek, a former colleague of mine, is out in Bangalore in India for a few months with some of the guys I used to work with1.
He’s got a bunch of pictures up on his website. He’s a great photographer so they’re definitely worth checking out.
– Fintan
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Ruby Newbie at Ruby Tuesday

14Feb07

I went to my first Ruby Tuesday meeting of the Ruby Ireland user group last night at La Taverna di Bacco in the grandly named Italian Quarter1 just off Ormonde Quay here in Dublin. There was a pretty sizeable turnout for this relatively new and small but growing group. We did manage to [...]

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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me

07Feb07

Olivier Ansaldi tapped me up for this ongoing chain letter, blog style so here are five things you didn’t know about me:
1. I’m the eldest of three kids and my parents are divorced. My father has remarried and now has another three kids, the eldest of whom is about the same age I was [...]

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Getting Creative. Now.

03Feb07

Having been pointed to it by this entry in Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I recently read Hugh MacLeod’s manifesto “How To Be Creative” on ChangeThis1. It really is quite simply the best thing I’ve ever read on creativity. This honest and realistic appraisal of not only how to be creative but what [...]

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