Incredible how the world lifts a little when you delete and ignore Reddit. The endless drone of bad news and doomsday stuff can really drag on you.

Week 4 - Experiences The last two weeks have been hectic. A real spiral to start a year. First, my birthday hit on January 5th, which I dutifully took off work to have a breather after a fun, wild and busy Christmas peri...

Weekly #blog about my trip to Cali this week, and the general madness of the years' start prompting some thoughtfulness www.
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My vote will go to Connolly but if this group is the best the country has, we’re in bad shape.

WATCH: Ireland PM's Powerful Speech at UN on Gaza: “To Do Nothing Is Complicity” | AC1G YouTube video by DRM News

Another UN speech. And another remarkably good one. This time from our own Taoiseach. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yqo...

Screenshot of phone Home Screen with the folder featuring apps used to control different home devices. Gaff Home myenergi SOLAY SolaXCloud Nest Landroid iRobot My Porsche

Sort of mad that this is the list of apps I use to run the house

This is a remarkable speech by the Finnish President at the UN. Worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECaq...

For what it’s worth, even with meagre sunlight this week, I’ve been able to run the car for free. Mostly just shops & crèche runs. But that’s a big deal for most households. There’s a perception that they only work at peak summer in Ireland.

Sure what else would you be at on a Saturday evening

Lack of traffic means the bus has to sit idle at stops for a few mins. Which again, introduces my timely reminder that school time needs to be addressed for traffic. Get school buses operational and make walking/cycling viable.

Public libraries are amazing!
Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library?
Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?

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Important life update: I’m now a member of the Porsche owners club Ireland. Along with a few hundred other white men.

3 year old is ASKING to go to bed. He must be broken or something.

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If you want to energise someone between the ages of 35 and 45, just play LCD Soundsystem.

Watched Ep1 of ‘Paradise’ and that was _not_ where I thought that was going to go!

Looking at #WRC Monte Carlo, it’s madness that the Irish government didn’t support a return to an Irish event. So much fandom for motorsport here. And it’d be great for rural areas.

Something just clicked with Balatro this evening. So that’s the last of my productivity for 2025 anyway.

Fair play to everyone planet gazing this evening. Not jealous at all as I peer at a load of clouds.

No jealousy here at all. Nope.

Good RTO idea. “We’ve pivoted to Teams. Or just go into the office”

People going mad about this TikTok ban. But if you want to bring people on-side, ban Microsoft Teams instead.

Having spent a week in the US, I think my body has gone into shock having had a vegetable upon returning home.

THIS is what Tech is supposed to fucking be.

Do not except anything less.

Important life update

Good advice, thank you father!

New car day. And once again, Irish insurers prove absolutely abysmal to deal with.

Black 5 and Drive - Chasing 44871 with Chris Harris YouTube video by Francis Bourgeois

Weird one of a Sunday morning, but I got genuinely choked up watching the authenticity of two nerds nerding out over a car and a train. I admitadly know nothing about trains, but when they get 'the shot,' I was amazed. Myself and my 4 year old watched it together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5yC...

Spent all day cleaning cars, cleaning the house and cooking things to use up the stuff in the fridge before it goes off. Wrecked but that was a very productive day!

First blog of 2025 reflecting on my faves from 2024 kd.ie/week-1-2025-...