After you finish reading this post, back up your computer. Stop what you are doing and just consider what would happen tomorrow if all your data disappeared. Not only your data, but all that time you spent customising your machine exactly the way you’d like. All those photos. All that music. All that time installing [...]

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The beauty of having clients in Ireland is that in many cases something like this is right up the road. That takes the sting out of a company visit, wouldn’t you say?

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So, this is where I spend the majority of my days … not so bad. Lisa oversaw the design of the space for the Centre for Design Innovation. There are three enormous orange dots cut into the carpeting. The carpet comes from an Irish company, Tretford, and is made from goat hair and other renewable [...]

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The picture isn’t too hot from my mobile phone, but over lunch today, the Archaeology department shared a rare recent find. It was a glass Viking necklace, probably 1000 years old, that was discovered in the back of a cave in the Burren. The original glass would have been a pale, transparent blue, though it [...]

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My Christmas holiday began on Thursday the 21st of December and today was my first day back in the office. Take a page from this book. I actually had a longer vacation than my son (by two days). One year in the States, I actually received e-mail from my boss ON Christmas Day. Typically I [...]

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