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The Merriam Webster dictionary defines synergy as “a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)”
Anyone with any experience in a workplace will know it as a management buzzword that smacks of horseshit. When asked to define what synergy is you would invariably get the reply “1 + [...]

I’ve been meaning to take a photo of this boat that is tied up at Harvey’s Dock here in Youghal.
Anyone notice anything odd? Click for bigger.

I feel so ashamed. I’ve just been extremely bad.
Someone in Brazil changed their theme on blogspot and very nice it is too I have to say. His design is excellent but for one thing. He is hotlinking to an image on my server. I’m getting hundred of hits for it so I figured I might [...]

Congratulations to Tony and Saori on their recent wedding in Japan. And thanks for bringing me back some sake.
Normally this stuff comes in bottles so I was quite curious when I got these:

I’m half way through the one with the pink flowers and it’s bloody lovely. I’m going to save the other two for another [...]

For the past few months I have been planning on setting up a new business. Now this takes some planning as you might imagine and having being self employed before for four years before, it takes an additional leap of faith to decide whether I actually want to execute my business plan. Being self employed is [...]

Today myself and a friend took ourselves off down to Wexford aiming for Duncannon Fort. While there we drove around Hook Head and it was by the lighthouse there I took this photo of fossils embedded in the limestone there.
The fossils themselves are of a marine animal that still lives in the oceans of the [...]

My replacement iPhone arrived yesterday so I was able to put into use an idea that I had. I use an application on it called Trails which I was going to use to track last nights canvassing. Well here is the result on a screenshot from Google Earth. Unfortunately Google currently don’t have high resolution [...]

Way back in 1992 I spent a week as a recruit in the then FCA (now the Reserve Defence Forces) in Bere Island. One of the most memorable events was how we crossed over to the island itself. The island is served by a couple of ferries that are capable of taking vehicles but given [...]