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Is Knowledge Sharing Natural?

“The most direct approach isn’t always the best.” So says the Chinese-cookie fortune that I’ve got taped to my display. It jumps out at me this morning as I browse the weblogs of two gentlemen for whom information flow is a normal course of nature. “…as I entered the business world, it simply made no […]

MS Word Locks Up, Errors

Two similar and related errors to talk about today: Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. and Microsoft Word has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. These are related in that they both are often caused by a corrupted file – a file […]

What time is it?

PC clocks are notorious for being wrong; the hardware clocks drift, software clocks get interrupted when they shouldn’t, maybe the moon’s just in the wrong phase, who knows. A few seconds here or there shouldn’t hurt too badly, but they build up and get to bug people. There have long been time servers “out there” […]

Review from Virtual Ireland

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from Virtual Ireland. IRELAND STANDING FIRM & EAMON DE VALERA, A Memoir by Robert Brennan (1881-1964) Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years of the twentieth century, journalist and close associate of Eamon […]

Review from Emigrant Online

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from Emigrant Online Ireland Standing Firm & Eamon De Valera: A Memoir By Robert Brennan These two works are taken from articles published in the late 1950s in the Irish Press and give a fascinating insight into 20th century politics in Ireland from […]

Document from Université de Genève

Backup information on Robert Brennan, copied without permission for archival purposes only, from the Université de Genève This appears to be a short biography of someone with the same name, also from Wexford. If you can translate this, please let me know. (see also this rough translation, until someone comes along) Robert Brennan (1881-1964) Brennan […]

Robert Brennan: Biographical Note

Backup information on Robert Brennan, from Robert Brennan and Maeve Brennan Papers in Special Collections at the University of Delaware Library, March 2002, copied here for archival purposes only. Biographical Note Robert Brennan was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1881. Brennan was trained as a surveyor and was employed in the early part of his […]

Admiration of Dev in Brennan’s Words

Backup information on Robert Brennan, from the Enniscorthy Echo, January 2000. Copied here with permission of the author, re-typed from a photocopy. Errors are likely my typos. -Steven Admiration of Dev in Brennan’s words Dan Walsh, In Our Time Normally at this time of year there is the quiet post-Christmas famine in the publishing business. […]

Roddy Doyle Launching New Book

Roddy Doyle will be launching Robert Brennan‘s book in Wexford on 22nd March. Ireland Standing Firm and Eamonn de Valera, a memoir by Robert Brennan. Editor Richard Rupp. Published by UCD (University College Dublin Press) Dublin. It is available for order via Amazon.co.uk. Synopsis (from the amazon.co.uk site) “Two memoirs written in the late 1950s […]

Scout Sunday, 2002

Today is “Scout Sunday” at our church, a day on which we recognise the church’s support of the scouting units they charter. We also show off a little, to help remind the members of the church that the scouting movement’s alive and well in their community and is serving them (as well as providing a […]

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