Ciaran’s Blog

So this is my blog - as you can see from the “Hello World!” post below I installed it quite a while ago but haven’t posted anything yet. I still somehow managed to get a legitimate comment on it despite no content. I have been putting off blogging here for many reasons, most of them pointless, like I wanted to design my own theme or even develop my own blog platform. But why reinvent the wheel?

I have decided that the only way I will get back to blogging is if I just do it and despite having many other places that I should be blogging regularly too, I thought I’d start with a post here. As I was saying, I first installed this blog ages ago, in fact I just renewed this domain last week, so I have had it for around a year already. I actually wrote the first intended post back around the end of October, 2007. It was early on a Monday morning in Kent Station Cork on a Palm Treo 750 as I waited to catch the early train back to Dublin for what would be my last week in the city before I left it all behind and moved to London. I must, in fact, see if I can find that post, it was quick summary of what I hoped this blog would become and what I hoped to write about - like the story of my move from Dublin to London and just my general musing on mobile and web “stuff”.

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My life has changed so much more than I thought it could have over the past year. I left Dublin as Sys-admin and Lead Developer of what is arguably, one Ireland’s biggest mobile communication companies, a position which I continued to hold for several months remotely in London. While I had reached the very top of my career ladder in that company by the time I had left, they were a company stuck in the past and we concentrated very much on the old world of mobile. After a few months immersed in the London web and mobile 2.0 scenes I wanted something more, somewhere my talent could flourish, somewhere where I would be really working on the cutting edge of what people were doing. What I wanted was to work for a startup.

Fortunately for me, I didn’t have to look hard to find Alicia and Skimbit. On meeting her for the first time we both had the same thought, “I want to work with that person”, which as it worked out was quite fortunate as Alicia was looking for a developer and I was a developer considering a change. So after an offer I couldn’t refuse from Alicia, I handed in my notice (remotely of course, actually from a hotel in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, CA, a sign of things to come hopefully). From there to today, I sit here as the CTO of one of London’s fasting growing and hottest startups with what could be a game changing new product, something I could never have dreamed of a short year ago.

Photo by @LinziMG

And now as my Freeview box does its nightly update, I’m reminded that it’s 3am here in London, it’s a familiar reminder now that I really should get to bed, but as usual I have too much to do and too little time to do it in. With that thought I leave you, hopefully my next post won’t take so long to come.

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