📸🦌🌳🏢🍻 City shots, including more deer!
Microblog
It’s time…
Part Two of the Family Weekend: After our Saturday hike around Howth, we spent some time around the city, including a quick visit to the Teeling Whiskey Distillery!
The end of a really nice weekend with my parents, who came to visit, and Shana —as always!
⚽️🇫🇷🔥🏆 Goosebumps.
Current status
“Welcome home, Dave. I built you a scale.”
Why I don’t trust Google, a video
[“The Selfish Ledger is Google’s creepy concept for total data collection” - The Verge]
Mission Accomplished: Wearing a white t-shirt, cooking a chilli, putting it in a food container and keeping it all stain-less.
The new Ali Wong special on Netflix is all kinds of hilarious! Go watch it without hesitation!
Updated my Micro.blog feed and cross-posting bot.
If I’ve done this right, I should be able to use Facebook a whole lot less…
Only 4 hours left in the Springsteen memoir “Born To Run” before I can finally start the second volume of The Expanse’s second volume… While it’s a fascinating story and life, it’s also very long! :D
I like puns
The end of a fun day with friends old and new and the local Phoenix Park 🦌!
👏🏼 for @adders:
“The need to own and maintain your own domain is critical to long-term publishing on the internet — and it's something all too often forgotten in the platform publishing age.”
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“It was a great demo that showed off just how brilliant Google is at technology… and how bad it is at not being creepy.”
| _Google’s AI sounds like a human on the phone — should we be worried? _- ‘The Verge’
Refreshing approach to Data and Privacy but then again, I’d expect as much from these people!
Italy, the most indebted member of the euro region to avoid a bailout during the European debt crisis, has succumbed to the forces of nationalism and protectionism that emerged over the past two years as the biggest threat to the political order.
“Thank the Maker” the first Solo reactions are very positive!
Really excited to have found this special copy of Margaret Atwood’s classic “The Handmaid’s Tale” to gift to Shana!
Not all ads are created equal. In this case, Vox Media is doing it right by doing something that is more creative, innovative, and clearly targeted at the right people while being respectful of privacy!
Bank Holiday Monday
One of the downsides of being an international remote freelancer is that Bank Holidays rarely exists. Today being one here in Ireland, but with my french customers being off until Wednesday, I decided to finish working early at 4pm and go out shopping/walking
Vibing to @Complexion’s #TFBS while reading this amazing book “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamish. Listen along!
#FreeComicBookDay was fun!
Sunny Sunday
We started the day with a lovely brunch before heading out to Phoenix Park. Then we walked around town all afternoon, to end the day having clocked 20km on foot!
Nice day out to the suburban city of Dun Laoghaire, overlooking the eastern sea!
The end of a very long week!
Stop everything you’re doing: Empire Magazine’s Avengers Infinity War Spoiler Special podcast is out!
#Instagram meets GDPR:
”Unfortunately, falling for the PR spin of the Facebook Regime is typical for technology journalists, and why it has been able to get away with its surveillance commerce for so long.”
#TheTruthAboutFrance Tomorrow is labour day in France, a bank holiday. Therefore some of my working partners are off until… Thursday! 🤣