I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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Microsoft’s Windows Vista is a buggy product. Heck, even I found an unreported bug in it after playing with it for less than ten minutes! I was talking to Microsoft folk in Madrid last week and I said to them…
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Tax on company cars causes increased carbon emissions!
I was speaking to a sales rep yesterday who was driving a company car. He told me about the Irish government’s scheme to tax people for receipt of company cars. It is called Benefit in Kind (BiK). Basically, if your…
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The Irish police force have started a road safety campaign which includes mounting wrecked cars at busy intersections with the words Drive Safe under them. I saw the example above shortly after hearing that a 20 year old cousin of…
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Comparing the sex trade in Madrid and Copenhagen
I’m in Barajas airport (Madrid) awaiting my flight back to Cork. The presentations I gave at Reboot (Copenhagen) on Thursday and Remix (Madrid) were really well received. I got lots of very positive feedback and invites to speak at more…
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I am such an idiot!
We were flying to Madrid this morning. Everything was set. Bags were packed. Ticket printed. Accommodation arranged. The lot. My wife lived in Madrid for six years so we have friends here who we had arranged to met up with.…
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Just arrived in Copenhagen
I have just arrived in Copenhagen for Reboot 9.0. I’m giving a talk tomorrow at 12:20 on “Reducing Information Technology’s ever-increasing carbon footprint”. This is in the context of the work we are doing building a hyper energy-efficient data centre…
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Just published second video podcast!
I have just published my second video podcast – an interview with Jan Blanchard of touristr. I got loads of great feedback on my first vidcast and I tried to take as much of it on board, as possible. Click…
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Callpedia
I came across Callpedia the other day. It is an interesting idea – you text a query to CallPedia’s text number (+353873204111) you wait a minute or so and then you phone CallPedia (+353766020331) and it reads out the WikiPedia…
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