FÁS Jobs Ireland – €1,700,000 Website
Listening to Newstalk (quoting from my feed reader, because their website is broken):Beaumont Hospital was found to have spent three-hundred and eleven-thousand euro on an I.T. system described as...
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Search for Your Name in Cuil
What comes up? I get this when I search for “James Galvin”.My LinkedIn profile:A page from my blog… about Bosnia, for some reason:And a post from my blog about that whole Eircom thing. That...
View ArticleTechLudd & Tweetrush
Too often I intend to write something on here, but settle for a 140 character light version instead. I’m a few days late in thanking Anton Mannering and everyone involved in organising Techludd Cork....
View ArticleMAXroam V2
Congrats to Cubic Telecom and Pat Phelan on MAXroam V2.Bigger and bolder MAXroam hurts the feelings and pockets of telcos even more than before 100,000 customers, $1Million in savings in 10 months Up...
View ArticleA Place to Buy Wedding Veils Online
Congrats to The Veil Collection on the launch. The site looks good – I can vouch for their reliability. These are the same veils that you would find at a much higher price in the wedding shops, but...
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Around the World
It has been a busy few months. Since September I have spent more time abroad than in Ireland, which I’m assuming is a very good thing considering how things have been. In January, I came home to chaos...
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Satan Paws
Movie subtitles in Vietnam tend to be bit inaccurate but this one really takes the biscuit.
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Happy New Year (part two)
Happy Lunar New Year.After Christmas in freezing cold IrelandI had my first New Year of 2011 in the even more freezing Poland. Krakow was really great, very surprising. Will have to go back there and...
View ArticleNow I am a Boiled Prawn
Writing this post is a sensitive task for me. Every word I type causes painful feelings. Not for any sentimental reasons, but because each keystroke sends a shiver of discomfort through my sun-charred,...
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Catch-22 of IT Outsourcing in Vietnam
More than six months have passed since the Flappy Bird phenomenon, but international eyes are still on Hanoi and half the country is still wondering what to make of it. Over the weekend, I attended an...
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Freezing in Morocco
I had to get out of Fontainebleau because it was so cold and there was nothing to do. Went to the nearest place where I thought I’d find a bit of sunshine. So I showed up to Marrakesh in my t-shirt....
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Boat to Vienna
Vienna is just about an hour and a half up the Danube from Bratislava. Some nice views along the way, including that of the ruined Devín Castle near the Austrian/Slovakian border.There are lots of...
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Brno
I got off the train at Brno. Grabbed a hot dog and I waited for a taxi. The second biggest city in Czech Republic, surely there are taxis, right? At the train station? The hot dog turned into a cup of...
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Sigiriya
In a Tamil village, I heard loud music as a truck passed by. The truck had a palm tree protruding from the front at a 45° angle. The palm tree had a shirtless man hanging from it, hooked through the...
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Archery in Bhutan
I’ve done archery before but not like this. Each person shoots two arrows that disappear into the horizon, at least as far as I can see. Then they set off on a long journey to the other side of the...
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Cordyceps
Forget about werewolves, asteroid collisions, killer clowns and demonic possession. The scariest thing on the planet is a fungus. It grows high in the Himalayas. It is a parasite that latches onto a...
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Blue Poppy
The blue poppy grows at an altitude of 5,000 metres. My guide gestures triumphantly, congratulating me on encountering the rarest of Himalayan flowers. For a second, I believe him. But we’re only at...
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Kumari
I did not prepare at all for my trip to Kathmandu. I didn’t even have local currency for the visa on arrival, the credit card machine didn’t work, and the ATM didn’t work. Not the first time I’ve had...
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