Category Social & Culture
This annual blog is 12 years old today, every year for the last 12 years I have come here to capture what happened over the last 365 days, what we enjoyed, what we did and more and more how that… Read More
On 16 December 2007 Paul Weller was inaugurated into that wonderful cast of cultural heroes that have been castaway to a desert island. Allowed to take just one of the eight records that they have ‘waxed’ (if you will ignore… Read More
So here we go again, a new year, another review of the year a reflection of what we did, what we learnt and where we enjoyed ourselves. Eleven years in doing this; cathartic in some ways full of nostalgia in… Read More
So another year ends. Personally an amazing year with dream after dream coming true with the most amazing people I could wish to be with. For TEN years the review of the year has evolved and changed and sometimes the… Read More
Generic terms and generic answers and how we need an evolving language to build more engagement in digital. When we consider how we talk about technology and its impact I would dearly love us to get away from generic terms… Read More
We all have bad days, yes? Working in IT in any environment sometimes feels like the world set up this morning with a clear goal, to discredit what we are trying to achieve. All the platitudes of business transformation at… Read More
Its that time of year again, one that I look forward to every year, its review of the year time. This is nine years of doing this, so much has changed in life, in the world, in what I do… Read More
So many people have been or are currently affected by the devastating impact of COVID-19. People have lost loved ones, family, friends and colleagues over the last 12 months and it has been devastating. In February of this year we… Read More
In a normal year writing this is something I look forward to hugely, I have done this for eight years now on this blog, last year was an emotional rollercoaster to read, this year, well it’s not exactly been the… Read More
As the final few minutes of the BBC dramatization of Sally Rooney’s Normal People came to an end I was reminded of the bitter sweet feeling of leaving Dublin behind. No matter whether it was my own reality of leaving… Read More