Jackie Danicki

Live from the mean streets of Cork, with Pat and Antoine:

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Tonight in Cork, I bumped into someone I met at Brian Solis’s house in California last month. This person lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland and had not even been to Cork for a decade (she’s on a cookery course in rural West Cork and decided to come into town for some wine and dinner). Talk […]

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I landed in Dublin at 7AM, and plenty of people were already knocking back the beers at the airport. (They didn’t confine themselves to the bar, either. Don’t ask me why, but I kind of like seeing people wandering around the gate area with a ice cold bottle of lager.)
Then I flew to Cork, which…oh […]

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Today is the birthday of one of the greatest people I have had the fortune to meet in my life, Mr. Pat Phelan.
I keep telling myself that I’ll write the definitive “How I met Pat and we then conquered the world” post when the story of our friendship has reached its culmination of achievements. This […]

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On Monday, I had only a damaged, expired passport. Today, I have a brand spanking new passport. What happened between Monday and today is too harrowing to recount (and if you follow me on Twitter, you’re probably sick of hearing about it anyway), but all that matters is this: Have passport, will get the h-e-double-hockey-sticks […]

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Daniel Brusilovsky

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Daniel (aka @danielbru on Twitter) is one of my new colleagues at Qik. He’s also the 15-year-old CEO of Teens in Tech and one of the most connected, clever, generous people I’ve met.
For example: I mentioned in passing a problem I’d been having with WordPress, and Daniel immediately pulled up […]

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If this seems dumb and destined to fail, that’s because it’s dumb and destined to fail.
-Techdirt, on something you have to read about to believe (thought the same sentiment also applies to this)

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If you’re in Cork on Friday night, Pat Phelan (THE LEGEND) is putting out feelers about a group of us doing dinner. Well, I know of at least three of us who will be at dinner, but we’re taking applications from other awesome people who may want to join us. :D
I will be in […]

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View from the office

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This is the view from Qik’s offices. I work there now.
Also in this picture: Oracle HQ and the house where I now live. (You could walk from one to the other in ten minutes, but it would take you about 20 to drive it. Stupid planners.)
It wasn’t so […]

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Brian Micklethwait and I are of one mind on this:
Newspapers and magazines are not completely useless now, which is why, from time to time, I still keep buying them. I still associate them with the intense pleasure that they used to provide. But in the age of round the clock internet connection they […]

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Dr. Scott’s adorable boy, Sun Su, turned six today. I remember when Sun Su was born, and can’t believe he’s halfway to adolescence already.
We rented a snow cone machine for the party. I was smashing ice bags for two hours this morning because the machine wouldn’t work unless the ice was in teeny tiny […]

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…thanks to some guy in Ireland, anyone heard of him? [insert smiley here]
I’ll talk more about this on Monday, but for now I will say that I could not be happier with where I am.

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I’ll explain later how I helped to make this happen, but let’s just say…life is strange.

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Great stuff from Jeff Nolan. A taste:

While the efforts to define semantic web technologies are theoretically proscribed in an open standards process it has the imagery of a politburo directing the proletariat. It may well be that these core technologies reside on a level of the geek stratosphere that is well beyond the vast majority […]

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