Category: Personal

  • For a short time only…

    For a short time only…

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    Tom Raftery
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      Yesterday was my last day working for RedMonk. I headed up RedMonk’s cleantech, energy and sustainability practice which we called GreenMonk, for almost eight years, but all good things must come to an end. Here’s some of what I got up to while I was with RedMonk. I’m fortunate now that I’m talking to a…

  • We are off to the beach!!!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Photo Credit technokitten We have been in Spain for nearly two weeks now. Most of the boxes and bags are unpacked. We have a phone line, gas, broadband, mobile and electricity accounts in our names and we put a deposit on a car (a Prius). It has been busy. The most difficult thing to deal…

  • Goodbye Cork blogger's dinner

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    Tom Raftery
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    Photo of a previous blogger’s dinner in Proby’s Conor O’Neill has very kindly decided to organise a goodbye Cork blogger’s dinner in honour of my imminent departure for Spain. Conor is calling it the Hasta Luego Blogger Dinner (Hasta Luego is Spanish for Goodbye, in case you didn’t know)! If you would like to join…

  • We are outta here!

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    Image via Wikipedia I mentioned previously that we are emigrating to Spain. I booked the one-way tickets for our flight to Spain yesterday. We are leaving Cork on the 21st of June, flying via Dublin, to Malaga on Sunday 22nd and driving from there to Seville. It has taken a while to get things organised…

  • Happy birthday Enrique

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    Tom Raftery
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    It was Enrique’s 2nd birthday yesterday. We are going out for lunch today with my Dad to celebrate. Time flies, eh?

  • I'm joining RedMonk!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have been working as a Social Media consultant in Ireland for around four years now and director of the Cork Internet eXchange data center for the last two years. However with my imminent move to Spain in July, I will lose 90% of the revenue from these streams. I can’t reproduce those streams in…

  • In Spain at the minute

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m in Spain at the moment. I flew over here on Sunday for my brother-in-law’s wedding. All good. However, this has been a nightmare journey. I woke up on Sunday morning with a temperature of 38.8C. And Tomás, our four year old, had a temp of 38. We managed to get the kids and bags…

  • Happy Christmas all

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    Tom Raftery
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    I’m starting to wind down for Christmas and spending some quality time with the family. A very Happy Christmas to everyone who reads this blog. See you all on the other side of the holidays.