Chill Work Desk

One of the problems with my current work desk is my laptop doesn’t recognise my face. And I have to share my bench seat with my cat.

Sharing my Pentagon Perspective on TippFM

I shared a few thoughts about how Trump won The Iran War Participation Trophy on TippFM, our local radio station. He plans incursions on a different level.

Respect for braided cables

I have new-found respect for braided USB-C cables. Mainly because they are the only device that can keep all my equipment running.

Shopping with smart glasses

In 2023, we would go shopping with smart glasses because they often told us things we didn’t know just by reading the labels.

AI is a moving substrate

The phenomenal growth in the capability of AI is not linear. If I charted the speed and sophistication of the AI services on the Y-axis of a graph and time to execute a result on the X-axis, my graph would approach the vertical. Independent research from the UK’s official governmental AISI, …

Parents managing addictive scrolling

In today’s Sunday Times, Charlotte Ivers laments “GenZ is paying for our dire social experiment.” Her concern has resonated through the conference halls of major edtech events I have attended since 2024.

Getting ahead with smart connections

After 20 years with a public profile on LinkedIn, I believe I have figured out a way to minimise noise here. In my case, it means figuring out how to make meaningful connections

Long Tail from 2006

Twenty years ago, I spent several days every summer recording what creative media students thought about books that were in Amazon’s best seller lists.

First thoughts about AI Winter

I use my lens of “AI Winter” when reading vendor reports concerning the reach and capabilities of artificial intelligence. An abrupt “AI Winter” will occur by 2029, with reduced access to AI that will be driven by economic downturn and vendor failures.

Surely I could use Claude as a gardener.

It’s the Independence Day in America and I used part of the morning to cut loose years of unread emails in my Yahoo! I asked Claude to handle the job in a quick and dirty way while I did some yard work.

806400000000000

That sequence number represents a K-loader transit number of coal destined for West Berlin from OPLAN 4307 that I used during a four-year period as a strategic airlift planner.

Being kinder to my blood pressure

Forty years after my last intercontinental flight, I’m trying to see if I can do a minimum crew rest turn-around. I am failing.

Developing age-friendly data literacy programmes with SOLAS

I’m at an education showcase with SOLAS, sharing how we train elderly people how to use AI on their phones. I’m running the free programme in community libraries throughout County Tipperary, Ireland. This AI just with your phone training programme leverages instructional material …

My blog could leak secrets

As I read the Sunday Times in my sun-split garden yesterday, the sound of a helicopter overhead took me back to room 1D377 in the Pentagon. I rode there several times by an Army helicopter.

Claude made my Amplify2026 Calendar

I asked Claude to compare the Irish Research and Development Group’s Amplify 2026 agenda to content inside my Personal Knowledge Management system. Then I asked Claude to add to my June 18th calendar a timetable of things Claude knew I would be interested in learning at Amplify2026. The result …

Hoping Siri gets as smart as my Gemini

I’ve bought six iPhones in my life and expect to buy only four more. It looks like the next two that I buy will come with Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence–but probably only if I buy the iPhone in the States with an American address.

The cost of feeding my plastic brain

I have a plastic brain. At least that is what neuroscientists tell me and I’ve noticed some of those experts also believe my use of artificial intelligence might be readjusting how I think. And my enjoyment of AI is also taxing my neighbours.

Notes from the second day #edtech26

I enjoy learning where ideas originate and during the second keynote of edtech26 in Dublin, I learned some of Felicitas Macgilcrhist’s ideas coalesced after reading The Anxious Generation.

Productivity through my knowledge graph

I teach university researchers how to achieve greater productivity through digitally transformed knowledge management. At the core of this effort sits the notes, lab reports, preliminary research findings, presentations, and peer-reviewed published work. To manage all these high quality nuggets of …

Using Calendar for better focus lately

In an earlier life, I operated with checklists in cockpits. I walked to those cockpits after attending pre-flight briefings two hours and 15 minutes from scheduled takeoff time. And when an aircraft commander …

Newsrounds with mobile phones

Knowing that many Irish radio stations draw their Monday content from the Sunday papers, I bought a Sunday Times in Ireland and selected a half dozen items worth sharing.

Making a page of my AI work in the 2020s

While attending a Final Year Show on the TUS-Clonmel campus, I heard a graduate from 2021 share with other lecturers that he remembered me showing what artificial intelligence could do for knowledge workers.

On air about Washington Correspondents Dinner

I spent 20 minutes on TippFM explaining to Tipp Today host Fran Curry what I remember from my past experience in the Washington Hilton Hotel around the time of the Correspondents Dinner.

360 Video Adventures

I’m continuing to think panoramically with my focus on making the post-production process smoother.

Troubleshooting reasons for missing audio recordings in Camtasia

I enjoy creating problems that I can solve. My current problem concerns audio segments for Camtasia Editor.