Bernie Goldbach in Thurles | Photo by @jyri | 312 words
I AM ACTIVELY seeking spaces where others learn while I also document how I learn from my spaces. Along the way, I'm developing a wishlist that includes high fidelty learning chair...
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I GOT THREE COPIES of Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography and along with Neville Hobson I am watching how people share passages from this excellent book.
I didn't expect to get two hardcover books and one Kindle edition but I failed to ...
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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT the water was safe, Air Swimmers floats a shark next to your face.
These RC fish would delight our three year old but I don't think we'll be able to get one of these $40 fish from M and M Toys before the end of Sep...
WE HAVE A 12 year old Sony radio sitting in the kitchen and it will easily last another 12 years without fail. But I already want to move up to internet radio because there's so much more content I need to absorb audibly. The Revo AXiS f...
SIGNIFICANTLY COLD WEATHER blankets Ireland and I've got the gloves to make it through the most bitter conditions. The problem is with my touchscreen phones. I can't get the little devices to respond to simple things like answering a pho...
EACH JANUARY, I WISH I had a generous expense account so I could plunge into the new offers revealed during CES. I have a wishlist that would make home entertainment more enjoyable, create closer links to my extended family, and reduce p...
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I BURN OUT power converters all the time. Because I tend to plug them into industrial strength mains outlets--like the power outlets used aboard Irish Rail--a typical power...
JAIKU IS JOINING GOOGLE. That's what Jyri Engeström says. He writes that they "look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers ar...
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WHILE CHATTING with Brendan Coleman inside my fav mobile phone shop in Thurles (+353 504 21222), I noticed the Nokia N80i's WiFi phone services. When you get an N80i from Brendan, you get SIPphone installed. This means you can use the N8...