Inside View

Sunday News from Ireland

WITH A WINNING Irish rugby team and a weeping Eamon Dunphy on the front page of most broadsheets, many in Ireland believe the recession is well and truly beaten. In a 10-minute Qik video clip [27 MB MP4 file], I run through three Sunday ...

What the Sunday Papers Say

MY SUNDAY READING has ground to a halt due a little person still sleeping (at left), but not before I spotted some interesting things today in the Sunday papers. I bought the Sunday Tribune for Mr. Mulley but couldn't find his words or h...

Longest-Serving Technology

AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED, the longest-serving piece of technology in my life has no moving parts. It's a hand-operated Borner vegetable slicer that I bought for $12 in 1987 from an Italian in West Germany. Since then, it's been with me in at...

Running my Electricity Meter Backwards

ONE OF OUR hopes is to watch our electricity meter run backwards some day. We gain our inspiration from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, located in a small eco-city in Abu Dhabi that held a competition to select one of t...

Sunday News with Irish Bread

THOSE WHO FOLLOW MY meanderings around Qik know that many Sunday mornings include a short walkabout the Rock of Cashel and into a shop where we buy a few Sunday newspapers. [0] Today, we returned home with the Observer, the Sunday Busine...

Course in sustainable energy

CLONMEL -- I work with a group of eight programme specialists who have built or designed small-scale renewable energy systems. Now that crew have devised an evening course that transfers those skills to students. The course integrates in...

Sunday Tech News from Ireland

ON A DAY WITHOUT wifi broadband and using a Nokia E90 that appears to have a smudged lens, I've recorded a short Qik video (in two segments because my memory was saturated) gleaned from reading the Sunday newspapers in Ireland. The first...