Paul May

Driving Home for Christmas, originally uploaded by paulmmay.

More amazing, generous, lovely ideas from Atto. Go forth and Build a Beard!

In the last year I’ve taken some time to scan and catalogue hundreds of family photos. A fun, interesting, eye-opening, painful, happy, laborious exercise. Anyway….this is one such photo. Tricycle, circa 1985.

Remote Simon 2, originally uploaded by paulmmay.

It has been a funny week, some good stuff in work and a bit of a cold. Lots of time to ponder the future and my direction.

I suppose I’m feeling a bit restless in my soul; I have a real desire to learn and develop myself further, and a few options as to how i do that. That’s all a bit vague; I know.

Anyway, I also got to talk to Simon in VZ. Hey bro!

Electric Picnic was *amazing*. We saw some great bands, had great food and the camping was fun too. All the photos from the weekend are up on Flickr. Peruse at will.

Argie bargie in the women’s sprint semi finals.

Emma Davis Finishes 37th in the Women’s Triathlon at the 2008 Olympics. Well done to Emma, our first ever Olympic Triathlete! Update: There’s a very good report on the Triathlon Ireland website of Emma’s race.

Set your alarm clocks now! At 3am Irish time tomorrow, Emma Davis will become Ireland’s first Olympic Triathlete as she competes in the Beijing 2008 games. The race is taking place at the Ming Tomb Reservoir…great name. We haven’t been so lucky on the track or in the pool so far, so let’s hope Emma does herself proud and kicks some ass.

If you’ve haven’t managed to catch an Olympic triathlon on TV before make sure you check it out; it is incredibly exciting to watch! I am flying to the UK for work tonight, so I will probably not get to see the race….if any kind soul out there wants to DivX the race and make it available through some sort of filesharing application, that would be sweet.

Version 0.2 - Updated 09.07.08

This is a quick, hopefully useful Beginner’s Guide to Triathlon. I’ve been competing in the sport for a couple of years and I wanted to put down a few hints and tips to help anybody thinking of giving Triathlon a try. The sport has had a very positive impact on my life, it’s hugely popular, great fun and very achievable; regardless of whether or not you have a sporting background. You will also get to meet some amazing people if you decide to give it a go. I’ve written this guide from my own perspective; so it’s more appropriate for people coming from a non-sporting background, as I was when I started. Enjoy.

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A talk I gave at Barcamp Belfast 2008. A very early draft of something I might develop in the future. 20 mins talk + 10 mins q&a

Hypothesis: There are some incredibly talented people working in technology, design, business - and I’ve often wondered, how do these people stay so fresh, so highly skilled and so motivated when the nature of their industry and their business changes so quickly and so often. So I asked them. And what they told me was very interesting. For some people it’s a strategy, but In most cases these just happen to be some things that really great people seem to have in common. So, what are these traits, these strategies?

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