Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Day two in Georgia – Mtskheta
Today ended up being largely confined to a lengthy and very interesting conversation via translator with Georgian Times founder Malkhaz Gulashvili. We talked about a wide range of issues, but mostly about the war and regional politics. The discussion then moved into Malkhaz’s personal interest in Irish history and politics and his personal desire to…
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Sightseeing in Tbilisi
I spent the entire day today travelling around Tbilisi. I guess getting the tourist thing out of the way first is a good thing. But even while doing the tourist things there are signs of the recent conflict. We passed a communications antenna damaged by Russian bombing (no good photos), and a few places where…
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In Tbilisi
Arrived without any problems. Cool thunderstorm out the window on the descent too.
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Off to Georgia
Via Munich today. See you on the other side.
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New blogs
Reader Ferdia has started a new blog over here. Uncle Anthony has started a personal blog over there. Welcome!
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Ahern's last day
Endeth the grilling. For now.
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HP cut 25,000 jobs
No word yet on whether the job cuts include Irish staff. Hewlett Packard, which acquired Electronic Data Systems for nearly $14 billion this summer, plans to trim its company-wide workforce by nearly 8 percent as part of that acquisition. Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP will announce restructuring plans for the EDS division to “streamline costs, invest…
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A matter of time
As P O’Neill points out, Dell are in the process of making a decision on their operations here. It seems clear now that Dell will pull out of Limerick altogether. They might also pull of Ireland entirely. That’s an instant 10,000 redundancies – more people on the dole. Related industries will also be affected, which…
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Wall Street implodes
We started the year with five big investment banks. Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Bear fell earlier this year. Now Merrill and Lehman have disappeared in a weekend. Only Goldman and Morgan remain. How will the market react later today? Dow futures are off by 300 points, the dollar…
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New toys
On Kathryn‘s advice I’ve been playing with some new tools. I added Apture via a plugin, and I must say I do like it. It makes it easy to add extra media to text-driven blog posts. I’ll keep it on for a while and see how it goes. Next to test is Thomson-Reuters’ OpenCalais. It…
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