Industrial placement; Unpaid internship or start a business?
A degree of common sense? As financial pressures continue to bite, and with many more students and graduates chasing after work experience, employers have found themselves in a strong position with...
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Lover of shiny things This week I had the pleasure reacquainting myself with Ruby’s Diner on Linenhall St, a place I hadn’t eaten in since way back in 2002 when I worked just up the street. The decor...
View ArticleThe Lord moves in mysterious ways; Another first for Northern Ireland tech...
ICM Books iPhone App One of my favourite Northern Irish tech companies has just scored a world first. Those web and mobile application wizards at Lisburn based GCD Technologies have only went and...
View ArticleGoogle Nexus Twitter account suggests surprise is coming today
Nexus S - Surprise incoming? Google have just posted the following to the @googlenexus twitter account: We have a surprise for you today. Stay tuned! Can’t wait to find out what it is. Couldn’t be the...
View ArticleNew role: The 30-60-90 plan – The first 30 days
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) Prior to starting my new role recently as Technical Marketing Manager at Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies...
View ArticleA little shot of PUF; Mobile World Congress 2012 #mwc12
Shot glass - Just like any other? As I sit here on the Dublin to Barcelona flight I am thinking about the research we are demoing this week. I’m a simple guy and I’m a sucker for a good story. In my...
View ArticleThoughts on Mobile Word Congress 2012; Why you should be there #mwc12
The CSIT booth at MWC 12 I returned from Barcelona on Friday after a week of lead generation, market positioning research and generally being a booth bloke at Mobile World Congress for my employer The...
View ArticleWhat is a Technical Marketing Manager?
I started this morning writing a long post about my second 30 days in my new Technical Marketing Manager (TMM) post with The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT). I found myself...
View ArticleNew role at CSIT: The second 30 days in the 30-60-90 plan
Chips with that? Last month I blogged about the 30/60/90 plan covering the first 30 days of the initial three months in my new Technical Marketing Manager role at The Centre for Secure Information...
View ArticleIs this the end of usernames and passwords? #csitsummit
This post was previously published by me over at The Centre for Secure Information Technologies blog. At the recent World Cyber Security Technology Research Summit hosted by CSIT I had the pleasure of...
View ArticleThe Dock – A poem by David Crozier
I am delighted and honoured that my poem “The dock” was chosen as the winner of the inaugural MATRIX Poetry Competition. I collected the prize on Saturday 5th October 2013 from Poet Laureate Carol Anne...
View ArticleQueen’s researchers on the front line against cyber crime
On 2nd June 2014 numerous news outlets globally ran a story about a Russian man being charged with being behind a major cybercrime operation that affected individuals and businesses worldwide and added...
View ArticleThoughts on the Apple #WWDC14 announcements, media crib sheet
I was asked last week by BBC Good Morning Ulster to come in to the show and talk about the announcements made at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2014. You can listen to it again here. Go to...
View ArticleThe Sun #shortpoems
The Sun Up there In the air Beams the sun Shining through Chasing off The morning dew I wrote this short poem after walking through my garden on a summers morning. The sun was already high in the sky...
View ArticleTwelfth morning #ShortPoems
The master raises the drum to his chest on Folly Lane. Resplendent with Lily, Sweet William too. The band called to order, his domain. He calls the tune. Killaloe, after two – one, two. Its Twelfth...
View ArticleEncamped at Scarva #shortpoems
Picnic made, deck chairs packed, Scarva bound, o’er the Aughlish hills we go. Williamites and Jacobites massing to re-enact. Whilst family head for the annual rendezvous, By the oak on the avenue where...
View ArticleNexus 7 power adapter with movable earth pin
Unpacking a new Nexus 7 this morning and found the movable earth pin on the power adapter quite neat. First time I have seen or used one like this....
View ArticlePoem #shortpoems
I’ve wrestled with your wretched verse For thirteen days you’ve been a curse Words they simply wouldn’t rhyme Perseverance; a thief of time.
View ArticleBuzzard #shortpoems
Kiew, kiew, kiew, Gliding, on the wind flow Heard first, then I see you Scanning for his prey The raptor hovers like a drone. Will they see another day? Nonchalantly banking with his tail Swooping...
View ArticleAlexander #shortpoems
Welcome to the clan, You handsome little man. Born out in the East Last, but not least.
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