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Zenlife

I’d one of those perfect mornings this morning where life is almost 100% right. I don’t know how to create these mornings – sometimes, they just happen. Lately, probably via rearrangement of stuff in my life, I have been getting up around 7am – I’m aiming for 6.30 actually 7 is already good – and [...]

I don’t understand…really I don’t.

Yesterday or the day before I was doing some layout design exercises and while I was doing that I built this.

There’s a blog entry here explaining the background to it. Out of interest, the beach is InchyDoney in Cork.
As I don’t push the flickr account where it’s hosted too much, I got some surprise today [...]

The green dream, the knowledge economy and future dreams

Back in the days that I was in college doing a module on translation technology, one of our lecturers talked about a concept of the “green dream”, particularly with respect to translators; how being connected to data communications service would make it possible for you/anyone to export translation services to anywhere in the world because [...]

on life long learning

For various reasons I am looking at going back to college next autumn. In fact, the whole college thing has been under consideration for three or four months but the bastardisation of semesterisation in Irish colleges means that on average, intake is in autumn and that is it. This is in contrast to Germany where [...]

So today….

Today I was supposed to go motor racing in Mondella for the Japfest prize except when I woke this morning at 5am, it was bucketing down. It wasn’t a huge surprise to me at around 10 when Mondello rang and said “we are cancelling”. I wouldn’t want to drive in that kind of weather anyway. [...]

Living a dream…

This is a brain dump.
I was talking to a friend last week about the possibility of working as a photographer. Full time. Make money out of the hobby. I know one person who did it. He does stuff that I personally could not hack. I had to consider how you might make a career out [...]