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My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an inspirational book; not in that fluffy, chirpy plastic way of too many popular books but in the shear darkness of the author’s story and his attitude during it.
Part of the appeal of this book lies in the historical account from a survivor of the holocaust, told [...]

My review
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
First off, you’re probably not going to get to a 4 hour week and certainly not working as an employee. However, this book is a must read simply because of the way the author makes you look at things differently and turns established notions on their head. [...]

My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very interesting book about how an overabundance of choice creates stress and depression, particularly for a certain class of people (maximisers). Interestingly, it seems that I’m not a perfectionist but a maximiser (someone who always tries to find the absolute best course of action/choice).
As an example, I’ve recently [...]

My review

rating: 5 of 5 starsA fantastic book that every PhD student should read.
The advice is obvious but presented clearly and simply, making it a very powerful message: Winners quit (the right stuff). Basically, you can either quit your project (to focus on something else more worthwhile), stick with it (til [...]

I’m finally getting started on Shutter Scouts, a website for photographers to share and discover interesting locations.
Initially my principle tool was a blank pad of A4 paper and a biro for sketching out the data relationships, templates and pages.  After searching for a good cheap website template I decided to make my own — just [...]

I’m big into anything that means I don’t have to walk up and down the stairs at the moment. One of the annoying things was getting the laptop in the same place as the backup drive, which meant that I wasn’t actually making any backups. With lots of priceless baby pictures that kinda [...]

Due to the miserable weather, we saw both the Harry Potter and Transformers films this weekend.
I was kinda disappointed with the Potter film: it seems like you need to have read the books to enjoy the films. There are just too many characters, with similar names, and huge past histories to make the film [...]

Myself and Hilary went to see Aerosmith in Marley Park on Tuesday night.  The concert was pretty good but not enough of the older stuff for my liking.  Still, it did give us the excuse to spend 2 days in Dublin shopping and revisiting our old haunts:

Books in Hodges Figgis, of course!  €100 in [...]

My photo gallery has been neglected for over two years now and it’s time to do something about it: I’m going to kill it. I’ve decided to abandon hosting my own gallery and move to using an external site. I’m looking for something that will let me share albums of photos with friends [...]

Note: As a promotional offer, I’ve been given a free licence key by the developers of WinSnap. However, most of my review if based on my experiences over the past month with the free version.
About a month ago I came across WinSnap — a lovely neat utility for grabbing screenshots. I’ve previously used [...]