Sunday, December 18, 2011
I picked this up on my twitter feed this morning.
If you were giving a talk to 16 yr olds about economy, would you be upbeat to inspire them or more downbeat to snap them out of complacency?
(Liam Delaney, Professor of Economics Stirling University. Research Fellow UCD Geary Institute, occasionally blogs here also.)
We’re talking about 16 [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
One of our TDs took himself off to Silicon Valley a while back to see what was special about the place and more to the point, could we create something similar here in Ireland. In a way, it was a laudable objective, and you can read the article he wrote subsequent to the trip here.
I [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Via the Journal – a site I haven’t really worked out the purpose of yet – we have this little piece on whether we should all be learning Chinese.
There are a couple of key pieces of information:
Richard Barrett, who set up Treasury Holdings with Johnny Ronan, suggested from the audience that Irish people should be [...]
I recently downloaded the latest Steven Levy book, “In the Plex” which is pretty much a history of Google. It’s now on my nice friendly iPad where Kindle software delivers me a lot of interesting things.
I use Google products on a daily basis. Their search is generally reliable apart from a blip last year when [...]
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Last week, ComScore issued a press release highlighting the penetration rates for Twitter and LinkedIn in a number of different companies. The Netherlands came out top. What was interesting – and hence rather more widely reported than you’d expect normally – was that Ireland came second in the table for LinkedIn. I was a little [...]
I wound up in a twitter discussion with Marc Coleman today because he is running for election to the Seanad and he got into some sort of a tiff with Brian Lucey, an academic in Trinity, this week. As I follow both of them, the argument caught my attention and I ended up contributing. I [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
It’s August, so we have had the school leaving exam results and as is typical, there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth about maths. Put simply, we’re not good enough at it.
Collectively, I mean. There are some individuals doing nicely. Anyway, one of the options being suggested to improve interest in maths is [...]
The Irish Times published this article about how we were selling more cars this year like it’s a good thing. I’ve mixed feelings about how good it is because frankly, a significant majority of the motor industry in Ireland is retail sales based on imports. I don’t think we have anything more than a few [...]
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Disclosure.
I do not own a house. I do not own a house because between 2000 and 2006 the price of property rose significantly faster than my salary and I flatly refused to borrow money I couldn’t pay back to buy a house or an apartment. For this, I took quite a lot of criticism from [...]
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