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A New Sect

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

In February I overheard Tweets about an upcoming event to be held in Dublin. “Breakthrough to Success“, a 3-day training course on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Neurological Repatterning, being offered by (the apparently famous) Christopher Howard at a cost per head of €1,200.
It had slipped off my radar until I learned that three people I [...]

Doing a bet

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Strange things happen in blogland. Just yesterday evening I was one of many to respond to her Ladyship’s throwaway question as to what would you do if you were the opposite sex for a week? On her recommendation I ended up reading JC Skinner’s classic post on gambling. Read it. It will open your eyes, [...]

Addicted to the Internet

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Two days ago my ISP’s main mast was the victim of a lightning strike. The backhaul transceiver was fried at a cost of €34k. Repair or replacement will take days yet. After a lot of hard work and a lot of technical innovation a temporary link to the backbone was up and running last night. [...]

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