It’s comforting..

.. that the word scared is just a move from sacred, right?

A Time to Kill Bad Slideshows

We’ve all been to grey old presentations where 1200 words are spat unto a slide in Comic Sans. Now’s the time to do something about it. Here are a few things I’m trying to spice up my slides.
 
 
MAKING SLIDES MEMORABLE
Use Text Sparingly

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The more and more I attend and give presentations, [...]

Nuclear: Time for Ireland to grow up?

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We were supposed to have sandwich days during the Summer. Days where the sun is shining and the kids are out and about. Let’s push past the national deluge. One of the great side-effects of living in a temperate  climate is the relative reduction of energy use during our mild [...]

Ye Oldie Words

Txtspk is dead, Ye Oldie sounding words are back. Words like:

methinks
alas
lithe
dotard
fisticuffs
abide
moonshine
craven
quaff
swoon
besotted

Any favourites of your own?

On truth

“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth”
Will Rogers

(There are just too many good Will Rogers’ quotes.)

Curse of the Little Red Hen

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When in the belly of mayhem and project managing a hundred things at the same time, my mother likes to call herself “the Little Red Hen”. It’s the “fuck you, I’ll do it myself” trigger she sometimes pulls.
Now I sometimes do the same thing and I know people that do [...]

Should athletics be handicapped?

The Olympics is upon us and track athletics has been all over our screens this weekend. Isn’t it interesting how the fastest competitors are almost always awarded the most advantageous tracks lanes  - three, four and five - ahead of their fellow athletes? These mid-track lanes are widely-acknowledged as the best to race in as [...]

On Progress

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Shaw

Osama Loves

Know an Osama? Does he love stuff? Channel 4 are looking for Osamas that love things as part of their Osama Loves drive. Here’s the blurb:

Help us find 500 Osamas in just 50 days
Not everyone called Osama wants to cause havoc. Osama Loves is a mission to discover the sunnier side of Islam.
Farrah and Masood [...]

O2: “We have iPhones, we just can’t sell them to you”

This post was supposed to be made from my iPhone. It was supposed to be triumphant. It had a lot of colourful characters in tow - Goldilocks, the Three Hoodies, Stripes and a young, belligerent Myers. All prospective iPhone customers I met today in passing. All with stony gazes of intent. Jesusphone zombies. Come this [...]

Snowed under, but wondering all the same

Very busy at work, but posting will be back this evening or tomorrow.
In the meantime I was thinking about Damien’s post on wonderings. You know what’s really special about them? The associative sensual moments we have in them. Whoa, there… What I mean to say, is that aroma, that view, that sound we experience while [...]

Eight is enough for China

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You know what I love about China? The way that superstitions underpines a lot of the cultural quirks that the country of billions share under a mantle of centralised Communist administration. In what seems like a divine strike of luck, superstition suggests that the timing of the Olympics are [...]

Supporting human rights means supporting the Beijing Olympics

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It’s just a little over a week until kickoff of the Beijing Olympics, the biggest sporting event of the year. The care at which China has been manicuring her capital city and her image to the rest of the world demonstrates the importance she holds in a successful staging of [...]

On Friendship

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Coleridge

AIB in meltdown?

News is just breaking on Twitter via Catherine that AIB is suffering an alleged systems meltdown tonight with both its web site down and ATMs out of action.

As of 8:50pm this evening, the AIB website is down, hence internet banking is hosed.

Experienced any problems using AIB ATMs tonight?
Update: Confirmation comes through their credit services helpdesk.
Update [...]

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