It is so humbling as a parent (and a person) to sit and watch your child endure any sort of pain. Em had a tooth that had to come out today. Jen and I grabbed and held her hands throughout the process trying our best to comfort her and explain however feebly, that we are […]

Read in the (remarkably long) comments of the discussion thread on the whole O’Reilly v IT@Cork debacle:

Folks this is getting out of hand. What’s the big deal?
If people wanted to use Web 2.0 freely then they should’ve come up with the name themselves.
There’s no free lunch!

Posted by: tim o’reilly […]

Talk With My Boss Originally uploaded by Chris Brogan.
After reading his article on lifehack.org, I discovered Chris Brogan’s weblog and through that, his sketchbook set on Flickr. Amongst the creative doodles, there are some really enlightening and personal gems. His blog is a good mix of honest personal writing with […]

I’m all for brevity. Sometimes just sending you there is better than trying to describe the outright coolness of a link. Check this out.

I listened to the most recent Bitterest Pill podcast on my drive to work this morning. At the risk of sounding 25 years younger than I am, it was “Da Bomb”. Dan Klass has a lock on celebrating middle-aged mediocrity, a demographic I wholeheartedly immerse myself in ;). From his fatherly trepidation about his 3 […]

So Nick Carr thinks Wikipedia is dead. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said that ’semi-protected articles will no longer be required to announce themselves as such to the general public’. Does this fact alone render Wikipedia dead? Seems Nick Carr thinks so. Then again, if you read the comments (which are much more interesting than […]

As I’ve mentioned before, one of my favourite podcasts has to be Lugradio. If you’re at all interested in the world of open-source and Linux, you should give it a listen. It’s funny, interesting and even sometimes intelligent ;). Anyhow, on the most recent episode, the boys talked about an open source short movie just […]

The sequence of the last chromosome in the human genome was published today. If there is one thing in this world I am not, it is a human genome expert. But I do try to keep up on science as much as possible, especially the important stuff. From what I read, this is really a […]

Imagine by surprise when listening to the latest Gillmor Gang, that I’d hear my name mentioned (and by Steve Gillmor himself no less!):
“…Richard Querin or whatever his name is…” - Steve Gillmor
Of course Steve was describing in passing, (just like my name was mentioned…in passing) the non-linking controversy.
It’s truly amazing that a well-timed post by […]

Don’t tell anyone, but I used to be big into PC gaming. I spent a lot of my gaming time with auto racing sims (I’m a huge F1 fan), and for quite a long spell I even participated in an online league during my Compuserve days (remember that?!). While RPG’s, battlefield strategy and first person […]