A super quick post to say that Nipper 1.0 and I are delighted to have been chosen as the winners of the recent Made in Hollywood competition run in conjunction with the Irish Blog Awards 09. The Tommy he is referring to is Tommy Collison who very deservedly won the Best Newcomer Award this year. [...]
I heard about this on, of all unlikely places, Morning Ireland earlier this week. While it sounded great they didn’t quite get the concept across on radio. I was fascinated by the fact that instructions to make it were available in Make Magazine so off to Google I lashed and googled “BeatBerry”, “Beat Berry” “beat [...]
I finally made the leap to WordPress. I have used Blogger to power my blog since 2003 when I first started blogging. I’m beginning to wonder have I made the right decision. Blogger had it’s drawbacks, mainly in the area of comment moderation and the inability to use widgets on a self-hosted, ftp-ed blog so [...]
Here’s a little piece I wrote for a project as part of my MBA. It’s on the concept of groupthink, whereby bad decisions are made by a group in order to avoid conflict and maintain group cohesion. The concept was described by Irving Janis in 1971*. Janis originally wrote about Groupthink in relation to The [...]
My talented family can, in the next fortnight, offer you the going out kinda diversion and the staying in kind too. Hmm I’m acknowledging that could be misinterpreted but read on and it will all make sense. My multi-talented sister Abigail will see the world premiere of her guitar piece entitled “Little Warm House” which [...]
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