While flying for more than 12 hours today, I realise I should take advantage of special access with British Airways–not because I feel entitled but because some of those privileges would smooth out the check-in sequence for the family. Dylan (14) and I sailed through baggage drop and passport …
This past month I worked with a Ukrainian couple who live with their twin daughters in Clonmel. He is a carpenter. She is a trainer. I am glad I met them. A report in November 2025 from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed 119,043 personal public service (PPS) numbers have been …
I believe the best multi-generational Christmas gift in our home wasn’t the drum kit Dylan (14) received. It was the midnight blue Roberts Radio that aRuth got. That’s because I saw the eyes of my octagenarian in-laws light up when they saw and heard its multi-room sound and as they …
Like every Christmas, we have more noise and more warmth than on a typical December day. This Christmas we have the grandparents staying over for two nights. That’s disconcerting for one of our cats (Luna in the photo) who cannot claim the chairs she uses as her beds throughout the day.
I am lucky to have family and in-laws around me today for a shared meal. Thirty years ago, when I was new to Ireland, I felt I was intruding when at Christmas dinner wuith people I just met that year. Back then, Amazon was just a place for books and I didn’t send books to family in America. I …
It’s Christmas Eve in our Irish home and by looking at snaps I shot in our sitting room I realise we never stop renovating. We finished installing a new fireplace (the original one had a broken fire brick in the chimney). We had a broken pipe that leaked through the floor above and marked the …
I never had long showers when I was young. Perhaps I should invoke a time restriction on my teens because when they’re showering for more than 15 minutes their electricity usage causes noticeable spikes, as in the black bar displayed in this power usage screenshot.
Thanking my Canadian friends for sharing the 60 Minutes CECOT story that Bari Weiss spiked. Bari Weiss did what she was hired to do. She redlined a story that was critical of Kristi Noem and the Trump administration.
I use a Whoop Fitness Band and wonder if its assessment of my sleeping patterns truly correlates to aging. I feel refreshed after 5.6 hours of sleep. Whoop wants me to get 8 hours of good sleep. Doing that is challenging for me.
We’re making a field trip to Portland Oregon to welcome 2026. We’ll be trying to figure out why Americans don’t appreciate Trump for his Greatness. There seems to be a total lack of appreciation for all the Executive Orders that make America Great Again and we think the sentiment …
I discovered Punya Mishra’s blog after hearing him share his expertise with educators in Valencia, Spain, in early 2025. Punya shares a story that goes back to 1918 in a short fable that Tagore wrote called “The Parrot’s Tale”.
My job today is to clean out the fireplace. Thankful it isn’t raining.
I am using Christmas Break to decompress from my routine while using AI tools inside both Obsidian and Notion to compress info I produced since I retired. It’s not difficult to find people who disagree with my use of AI in the knowledge vaults I maintain. Some of my critics use SharePoint …
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The schedule above confirms I will be showing a live demo of H5P Group AS’s smart import during the Digital Education Conference in Waterford Ireland on 9 December 2025 at 10am in room F06. I’m borrowing a workflow Frances ODonnell shared with me, culminating in a chase towards a prize …
I’ve tagged this post with #RUNEUAI because the biggest things I’ve learned about AI came directly from the 15 weeks I worked with 18 students and two instructors during my last teaching semester at university level. That collaboration opened a portal of discovery and sharing that was a …
I am letting several agents run my life. Whoop is the first agent. When I open Whoop in the morning, I often encounter a set of questions from the Whoop Journal.
I get regular updates from my alma mater, including this shot of Cadet Luke Plesko ( pilot) and Cadet Owen Hess (copilot) who are part of the Teal 2 Small Unmanned Aircraft System during the Fall Validation Exercise that ran at Stillman Field, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado on Oct. 11, 2025.
Along with Larry G. Maguire and the Irish Innovation Skillnet, I’m delivering the tail end of a 12 hour training programme designed to increase personal productivity through the use of AI. Today we will use Copilot on handsets to see what the mobile version can do with two data sets.
Working as fixer for on-site video recordings with Cashel Community School. Camera work by fifth year students.
It is hard to flip through my daily flow without encountering something that feels like a human didn’t produce it. Because I teach people how to ethically use artificial intelligence, I often offer these five precepts to people who want to ensure they’re consuming authentic content. I …
Wondering if its worth getting Cosplay Popes to patrol Dublin Luas Red Line.
I just finished an hour of ICERI workshop prep with co-presenter Brigit Kolen and here is what Zoom AI thinks I should do.
I wanted to see if I could post my handwriting to MB. So I did a test.
It’s a Sunday and I’m looking at items tjat appear in Irish broadsheets. Recycling. We like the Re-turn deposit scheme and I use it to fuel my takeaway coffee budget. Last year, more than 877m containers were returned to Irish deposit machines. Killian Woods says that “was made …