Trees (when I look out the window of my home office)
When I look out the window of my home office here in my home in Kildare I see some beautiful trees which I am pleased to say I planted many years ago when we fi...
Category: Blogging
The fundamental principle of being paid for work
This morning, as most mornings, I received an email from an employee who wanted to know if he “had a case”. He was most appreciative of the work I did, the YouT...
Why my chatbot Watson is back (and the surprising reason he went away for a while)
When I made a chatbot (Watson) for my websites with the IBM Watson Assistant programme in November 2018 I was stunned as to how intelligent it was, and the pote...
The independence of blogging
Blogging in 2019 probably appears to many as old fashioned and something whose ship has sailed. But nothing could be further from the truth. There is a tremendo...
Learning WordPress-One of the best decisions I’ve made
I don’t know exactly when I learned to use WordPress as a publishing/blogging platform, but it has turned out to be one of the best decisions I have ever ...
Trying to Articulate How I Feel About Donald Trump
I’ve put off writing this blog post for a long time. My fear is that I will not be able to articulate, with sufficient accuracy and power, my low opinion of Don...
Aleppo to Ballinamore-Would You Accept the ‘Inadequate Services’?
I find it a little bit nauseating to hear people talking about their ‘concern for the asylum seekers’ as a reason for their committed opposition to housing them...
The 1 Thing I Have Learned from Losing 3.5 Stone
From August 2018 to date, April 2019, I have lost 3.5 stone weight. And the most important thing I have learned from the exercise has not been about the f...
Brown Bread
I received a gift of a new Neven Maguire book at Christmas, “Neven Maguire’s Home Economics for Life: The 50 Recipes You Need to Learn” and took it as a hint th...
If Nobody Reads This Blog
If nobody reads this blog I still win. Don’t get me wrong: I would love to have hundreds, nay, thousands of readers showing up everyday to read what I write. Bu...