I found this picture of my grandfather Denis Dennehy. It’s taken in Connecticut in 1930. Would be great if anybody knew anything more about the club or anybody that was in it.

A couple of us started discussing a river trip from Gougane Barra, the source of the Lee, into Cork city. It looks like a ten hour journey with an exit to by pass the damns at Carrigdrohid and Inniscarra.

Last Sunday was a visible recce of the first phase of the route. Turns out you can’t put a boat into the lake at Gougane Barra and even if you could the river is not great for kayaking. So, the plan is to launch near Ballingeary and exit somewhere near Macroom. The route is absolutely beautiful. Especially notable is the Gereagh. Apparently, its the only remains of “post glacial alluvial forest in Western Europe”. Who would have guessed!

Photos and trip summary to follow. We’re going on Sunday of bank holiday weekend.

I tried to keep this blog purely personal but its impossible. I can’t escape the work side of life.

Next week we’re launching a new social recruiting tool called Zartis. If I may say so myself it looks superb. I’m not taking the credit. Dave Hall did all the beautiful visuals and Brian Daly did the hardcore coding. I bought lunch a couple of times.

As some of you will know I was CEO of Zartis.com back in 1999. In 2000 we sold the company to Breakaway Solutions. A year later the dotcom bubble burst and Breakaway was no more. I’ve always felt there was unfinished business with the brand Zartis.

I’ve been training for the past couple of months for the Ocean to City boat race in Cork. Myself and my friend Bill Hanafin are doing the 24km race in sea kayaks (which we haven’t seen yet). Over the past couple of weeks we were accompanied by Guf the friendly seal through Cork city centre, had ten mackeral given to us by friendly Polish fishermen and watched a pod of dolphins swim around us at Roches Point. Cork harbour is an amazing place.

I’m excited to say that we just launched a new online service to help people find jobs in the games industry.

There are already a bunch of sites acting as job boards for the games industry. We wanted to make one that people would actually like using. We also wanted one that would work for companies and individuals globally. Many jobs in the sector are very specialised and companies often need to cast a pretty wide net to get the best people.

Check out the girls profiles in the About Us section.

I started using twitter because I felt I had to. It’s now become one of my primary sources of news and discovery.

Twitter is banned in China. Weibo is the home grown variety. It’s built by sina.com and has over 100 million users. By the time you read this it will probably be a much bigger number.

Weibo is not banned in the Western world but it may as well be. Almost none of us can read Chinese. More Chinese people use twitter than Westerners use Weibo. No question.

So, we built an interface to Weibo that lets anybody search for a term and see what’s being said about it in China. Might be useful to brand owners in or looking to enter the China market. You can see it here tweibo.heroku.com.

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This is my personal blog. If you’re looking for anything to do with work you’re welcome to visit my company site which is all about social recruiting.

John