The regularly incoherent musings of another man on the internet
It's been a while since I've written about a video game here. But this week, I gave Bungie's first effort since being acquired by Sony a bash; Marathon. Which is released next weekend, but they decided to do a freebie for everyone on PC
Last week someone on my team was desperate to get in touch with me after an interview. We're in a huge hiring sprint at $job right now, and the second-order impact of that is simply doing an inordinate amount of interviews. I'm hiring for some
I was talking to someone yesterday about innovation in the economy. The backdrop was the current motif of Europeans abandoning American produce as much as we can. But that Europe is so difficult to operate in that fairly sweeping changes need to happen. The crux of these changes allow the
One of my favourite cars from Gran Turismo in the olden days was the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32. They date around 1990-1994 and have an incredibly familiar silhouette. More striking for me is the rear of the car, with the circular tail-lights, which frankly looked incredible in
This week I got to visit the Porsche centre in Dublin for the launch event of their brand new Cayenne. While Porsche is universally known for the 911, it's actually the Cayenne that they sell. In Ireland, Porsche sold 445 cars through 2025. 40% of those were the
Bringing Back the Third Pedal: Engineering a Clutch System for Electric Vehicles This is a bit of an odd one. A technical deep-dive into the hardware and software architecture required to integrate traditional clutch mechanisms with EV powertrains—and why motorsport might demand it. Electric vehicles have solved
Over the past few weeks I've tried to take more of a digital detox than I can recall. And I recall a long time back. I recall being a pre-teen discovering IRC channels with fellow like-minded hax0rs. I recall the early days of blogging on various
One comment I've heard a lot is that batteries degrade quicker than internal combustion engines do. Most will acknowledge that even the best maintained ICE engine will lose horsepower over time, thus causing it to consume more fuel to do the same job that it used to. But
The last two weeks have been hectic. A real spiral to start a year. First, my birthday hit on January 5th, which I dutifully took off work to have a breather after a fun, wild and busy Christmas period with family. But work began in earnest at $job, where we
Notes Wow, what a year. On a personal note, it was good. The 3 and 5 year olds grew and developed, with the 5 year old going to 'big boy' school (and getting his first new big boy teeth in the process). I did some work to the
This week someone asked me if I was "still the head of Tesla Ireland." I was never the head of Tesla Ireland. I was, however, the chair of the Irish EV Association (fka Irish EV Owners Association). I was part of the board/committee for almost 5 years,
I talked in a previous post about making music more regularly. And boy, do I have a gear addiction. Since that post, a drop from Telepathic Instruments' Orchid appeared so I jumped at that. And I have an Arturia Astrolab 37 due to arrive before the end of the
In twenty minutes, a man is coming to my home. He's here to measure up the kitchen, because while the units are lovely and classic enough that they've gone out-of and come back-into fashion, the counter-tops and handles are shabby. I've
Notes Ever since I was a teenager, music has captivated me. I'm a mega-consumer both with Apple Music driving my digital experience, and a plethora of excellent speakers around the house adjacent to my vinyl collection. But I've also always liked creating it. I'
Notes I've written about my love of games for years in various fora. My first foray into running a website with other contributors was a site called Shoryuken (named after the popular uppercut move in Street Fighter). It garnered a pretty decent following, hits and was the first