It would seem that the IT thought police in my employer were paying attention to the Blog awards. For a long time our web filters only blocked tools like blogger.com and typepad. Sites like Tuppenceworth who operated their blog on their own domain (like the DoBlog too) flew beneath the radar. Not any longer. As …
The DoBlog is back again, and in the style of Bond villains it has another new face. The old one was functional-ish and quite search engine friendly but it was a tad bland and ugly and didn’t wrap text very well. Frankly I put my failure to be nominated for any of the Irish Blog …
Perhaps it is that I am now on the cusp of my fourth decade as Daragh O Brien that I am getting a bit sentimental. Perhaps it is the early onset of a mid-life crisis that has me pondering how I have come to this point in my life as the person that I am. …
A disturbing thing happened to me this evening. I was out for a few drinks with an associate and his wife (who suffered through an evening of nerdvana as we discussed data quality and Dr Who). Nothing too disturbing there. Â However, at one point in the night I caught a glimpse of myself in the …
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Saw this on the Labour party website: Coughlan calls for the establishment of Irish Open University Interesting. What about: Oscail (www.oscail.ie) DCU’s distance learning school? What about UL’s courses in Project management that are offered over distance learning. And above all else… what about the Open University in Ireland? Perhaps what is needed is some …