Wow, it’s over 16 weeks here, almost 4 months! The last month has just flown! So, what did I do? I took a flying visit to Texas for work, literally a two day trip, but some nice weather over there. I took a little longer trip to San Francisco, it was absolutely brilliant, was great [ Read More ]
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So, tomorrow I’ll be here 10 weeks. Time has started to fly, which is good, getting more settled, but not quite there yet! Visited 2 other states since my last update, first of all Tennessee — I spend the weekend in Chattanooga (choo choo!) with some friends. Turns out it was a festival weekend (Annual [ Read More ]
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FYI: The pictures are all links to a bigger sized picture if you want to see more clearly! Now I have gotten into my apartment, and have stocked up on this to make the place a little more like home and bit more livable! Ikea is my friend! It was hilarious trying to cart all [ Read More ]
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Well, it’s been a busy 2 weeks, spent most of my time looking for an apartment at the end of week 1 and then most of the rest of the time trying to convince them that I’m not a criminal — just because I don’t have a social security number!! Got back to the social [ Read More ]
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Moving to a foreign country is strange, here are the chronicles so far. It’s not easy, especially when you feel like a dinosaur out of sync with the rest of the world! Sunday 12th I was far too tired from the long flight, the age it took to get through the airport, as well as [ Read More ]
Borrowed on a long plane trip and eventually found in the Popular Science section of a local bookstore it’s worth reading. Risk has a tagline of “Risk: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t – and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger”, here’s my thoughts. Prologue: Starts with the events of Septmeber 11th, how they were [ Read More ]
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Ubuntu strikes again, it’s been a while since I installed it last and here’s the make-up. My Dell Studio 15 came with Vista pre-installed. I tried to use the internal “Shrink Volume” as much as possible but didn’t get it too far — even when I used JK Defag (which is excellent at what it [ Read More ]
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I like being organised, and I\’ve tons of areas that I\’m working on. 1. Paperless office — needs a good scanner and OCR for the resulting PDFs and a powerful search application 2. Email to Zero — I\’m not a pure GTD head, but it\’s critical 3. To Do Lists — Needs to be portable [ Read More ]
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Here’s some of my Bermuda photos. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Fionnuala’s posterous
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http://posterous.com Wondering if my post makes it through to my blog…. 2008/12/8 Posted via email from Fionnuala’s posterous
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