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Free Speech vs Social Acceptance
Interesting piece on censorship in social networks. http://www.webpronews.com/should-social-media-censor-offensive-content-2011-08 While inconclusive as to whether or not censorship happened in this...
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Museum of Me
Now, if ever there was a title that sounded self-indulgent, here it is. However, its coinage is not of my own doing, albeit my activities and that of millions of others, indirectly led Intel to create...
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Blue sky, bright moon
Such a great weekend for full moons. Just looking out through my living room window, committing the cardinal sin of shooting through the window glass. Who cares? Sometimes a shot is just worth...
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Looking back on 2011
2011 year in review Looking back on 2011 what springs to mind in this eventful year? Well, it certainly has been an eventful year from all angles, both nationally, internationally, politically,...
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Viking Marathon
As the cat is out of the bag in the last couple of weeks: yes, I am running the Waterford Viking Marathon on June 30th. Persuaded to run due to the local nature of it and a chance to raise some funds...
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Progress! Advancement! Improvement!
Everyday I marvel at what the world has achieved as a collective of minds operating together, for either the greater good or simply to beat the other guy. I marvel but I also lament this reckless...
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Looking back on 2012
It’s that time of year again, when we all get a little sentimental and start to reflect on the events of the past twelve months (possibly even beyond) and begin to forge new commitments for the new...
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Something is rotten in the state of education…
The problems facing higher education in Ireland are widely debated. More often than not, debated from the same old norms and trite arguments of seasoned academics and polar opposites alike. What is...
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History is important
History is such an important thing: recounting of the path chosen to arrive at the destination is perilously in danger of reconstruction, in favour of a pathway that sounds better or has important...
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A rock to perish on
When you find yourself stranded on an island, it is water that defines the rock you will perish on… Since the very initial murmurs of water charges coming back to the Republic of Ireland, back in 2009...
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Au revoir!
Just now, I issued the magic SQL command ‘DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1’ and brought to an end, the existence of jbwan.com as a weblog. To be fair, it has been dormant for a long time but now the...
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I’ve recently started my blogging life again under the new umbrella runcertain.com – running into the unknown. It’s a blog about my love of running and my training routines. Also, it’s home to the...
View ArticleBlue sky, bright moon
Such a great weekend for full moons. Just looking out through my living room window, committing the cardinal sin of shooting through the window glass. Who cares? Sometimes a shot is just worth...
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Looking back on 2011
2011 year in review Looking back on 2011 what springs to mind in this eventful year? Well, it certainly has been an eventful year from all angles, both nationally, internationally, politically,...
View ArticleViking Marathon
As the cat is out of the bag in the last couple of weeks: yes, I am running the Waterford Viking Marathon on June 30th. Persuaded to run due to the local nature of it and a chance to raise some funds...
View ArticleProgress! Advancement! Improvement!
Everyday I marvel at what the world has achieved as a collective of minds operating together, for either the greater good or simply to beat the other guy. I marvel but I also lament this reckless...
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Looking back on 2012
It’s that time of year again, when we all get a little sentimental and start to reflect on the events of the past twelve months (possibly even beyond) and begin to forge new commitments for the new...
View ArticleSomething is rotten in the state of education…
The problems facing higher education in Ireland are widely debated. More often than not, debated from the same old norms and trite arguments of seasoned academics and polar opposites alike. What is...
View ArticleHistory is important
History is such an important thing: recounting of the path chosen to arrive at the destination is perilously in danger of reconstruction, in favour of a pathway that sounds better or has important...
View ArticleA rock to perish on
When you find yourself stranded on an island, it is water that defines the rock you will perish on… Since the very initial murmurs of water charges coming back to the Republic of Ireland, back in 2009...
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