Damian Beresford

Interestingly that only after 5 days since the Economist gave her a glowing profile, Diane Green of VMWare got the boot, bad timing for all concerned. I also remember they did a glowing report on Enron (which I just dug up here) a few months before it went bankrupt, again bad timing for all concerned!

However, this story about Ahmad Batebi in last weeks edition is both tragic and amazing that having your picture on the front cover of the Economist could land you in so much shite. Will be keeping an eye out for translations of his blog which may well be what is under construction here.

I know we have (and have had) our own troubles in this country but I think the most of us would take recession over repression any day..

Just realised its been a month since my last confession (sorry, blog post) - in no particular order, this is what I’ve been up to of late:

Golf - its that magical 2 month window in the year that you can get 11 holes in teeing off at 7pm. The golf club in Tramore has recently opened up the long awaited 9 new holes, and they really are fantastic - its like having a brand new course in your old course (or something like that). Haven’t helped my game unfortunately, the new holes are a bit hard!

Euro2008 - ’nuff said. Roll on the olympics.

The new job - just over two months now in the new job and really enjoying it. It’s real startup stuff, every deadline is critical, securing the first big customer is critical, etc but quite exciting and a challenging to boot. I’ve mainly been looking at scalability, so lots of multi-threading, performance analysis, fixing bottlenecks, etc. Good fun so far. Here’s a video of the team on a recent night out - thanks Paul!

FeedHenry Team Dinner from Paul Watson on Vimeo.