Burzynski; an opinion.

Over the last 7-8 months I have had a lot of, sometimes heated, debates on the topic of the cancer treatment method being developed by Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski. I suggest that you Google the name if you haven’t heard of him. I have always made clear that anything I said on the topic was my own opinion [...]

The TechCrunch Europas…

This afternoon I got a very pleasant surprise. One of my ventures, The Greenhouse Ireland, has been included in the “Best Startup Accelerator” category for the TechCrunch Europas. This was especially a surprise because we didn’t apply to be included and I had not heard of anyone putting us forward for it. About the Europas: [...]

20,000,000 wifi connections in 11 days!!!

The below figures were released by AT&T last month but I’ve only come across them today as I am seriously behind on my feed due to a house move.. Anyway, the figures released by AT&T show a number of very interesting trends. First of all there is the totally amazing number of 20,000,000 (yes 20 [...]

Dealing with your Twitter favorites.

If you’re a heavy Twitter user like me. Strike that, very few of you will be Twitter junkies to the extent that I am. Anyway, a lot of you will use Twitter favorites as a means of bookmarking Tweets, or specifically tweets with links, for later reading. I do anyway but because I follow a [...]

Failure is not an option….

I recently blogged about the criticism I was coming under from a small group of people related to my work with Haiti Connect a charity which I founded that is providing aid and assisting in the rebuilding efforts in Haiti. Initially the criticism focussed on whether or not our aid was needed and if Haiti [...]

The politics of aid….

The last few months have been an emotional and physical rollercoaster. Since I made the decision to start “Haiti Connect” my schedule and work load has gone into overdrive. Most of my regular (paid) work has gone out of the window and I have been dedicating on average 40-50 hours per week to my work [...]

Term sheets, Stock purchase agreements etc.

With all the discussion and news lately about different levels of investment (seed, angel, VC) it is quite often overlooked that there is a need for the proper agreements and contracts to be put in place. The prospect of having to deal with these types of paperwork or even the content of such documents is [...]

Relief through digital media…

Shortly after the earthquake in Haiti I decided that it was my time to do something and try to help out in a way that went beyond the usual “effort” of donating some cash to a charity. Having a background in wireless (wifi) networking has had me thinking about the applications for wifi networks in [...]

This DNA database “thing” is only getting bigger….

The “story” about Temple Streets Hospital blood sample/DNA database that started at the end of December 2009 just keeps on getting bigger. I blogged about this in December and January and had contact with Mark Tighe, Temple Street Hospital & the Data Protection commissioner. The facts were clear and simple: The fact that Temple Street [...]

Ask Willie….

Irish Minister of Defence Willie O’Dea, who has featured on my blog before, has recently been asked why the Irish army did not provide assistance during the floods in Ireland & if they would assist with releief efforts in Haiti. Both times he answered that they would have to be asked first. So I did [...]