Adventure Stories

16 Dec 2018

The Raw Ultra (Wickow Way 80-km/50-mile) run report

16 Dec 2018

9 Dec 2018

Raw Ultra kit details: what was worn, what was carried and what was eaten

9 Dec 2018

22 Nov 2018

Patones: climbing outside of Madrid

22 Nov 2018

13 Aug 2018

Trail running Courmayeur to Chamonix over three days

13 Aug 2018

While most other people make the plan to do the Mont Blanc loop, i.e. the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), our ideas usually end up compressing time. So the plan was to do ~100km of the TMB (and ideally the UTMB ultra-running route which has some small detours) over 3 days.

13 Aug 2018

9 Aug 2018

Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 3 - Trient to Chamonix

9 Aug 2018

2 Aug 2018

Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 2 - La Fouly to Trient

2 Aug 2018

….what goes up must go down and from the summit col, it's a 750metre descent into the village of Trient before finding our night's accommodation: L'Auberge du Mont Blanc. For future reference to any other people replicating this adventure: this Auberge HAS A SAUNA!!!!!!

2 Aug 2018

1 Aug 2018

Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 1 - Courmayeur to La Fouly

1 Aug 2018

Have we all the right gear? Have we too much? Too little? Can we do it? Is this daft? As always at the start of something unknown. My only comfort was that we had the two most critical items: our passports and a payment card in the event we needed to bail off the route early and get back my public transport to Chamonix!

1 Aug 2018

15 May 2018

The Ballyhoura Ultra: run report

15 May 2018

20 Apr 2018

The first ultra-marathon: the Ballyhoura Ultra

20 Apr 2018

8 Apr 2018

2018: one year post-shoulder-surgery, a year of running and what comes next

8 Apr 2018

Technology and Education Posts

24 Aug 2018

Event Notes: OWASP Dublin - Denial of Trust & Selfie Pay

24 Aug 2018

In June 2018, it was the OSAWP (Open Web Application Security Project) and their talk with the title of 'Denial of Trust and Selfie-Pay'.

24 Aug 2018

21 Jun 2018

Mary Meeker annual report 2018: my highlight slides

21 Jun 2018

20 May 2018

Helping teenagers Code: a review of the Vodafone Code Like A Girl programme

20 May 2018

6 Apr 2018

Notes from 3Dcamp Dublin (Virtual & Augmented Reality) & Irish VR meetup, February 2018

6 Apr 2018

27 Mar 2018

Notes from talk: Digital Disruption - business model disruption and the human cost

27 Mar 2018

9 Mar 2018

Notes from AWS User Group Dublin

9 Mar 2018

I attended a recentl AWS User Group event in Dublin as a small insight into what is happening in this world......

9 Mar 2018

31 Jan 2018

Linking the Great Eastern, Nokia and The iPhone at 10 [version 2]

31 Jan 2018

21 Jan 2018

2018 predictions: consolidation, and on-demand-anywhere

21 Jan 2018

One of the tenets of New Years is around 'resolutions' and 'predictions' for the forthcoming year. Thankfully I've learned the lessons that starting a resolution to kick off the year usually fail in the first 3-4 weeks so tend to stay away from them, choosing goals based on my interests and motivations, not on an arbitrary date in the calendar.

21 Jan 2018

20 Dec 2017

What opportunities is there for seven-year head starts?

20 Dec 2017