A lot of what I work on, a lot of what I think about, a lot of my own journey into epistemology, Zen, Music. Semiotics, Legisprudence and computer science can be neatly summarized thus:
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These days, I mostly post my tech musings on Linkedin. https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmcgrath/
Friday, December 12, 2014
Thursday, December 04, 2014
Art versus Science
An interesting conversation about art versus science has broken out on my FB page here
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Time, is waiting in the wings, it speaks of senseless things. Its pawns are you and me.....
The title of this short post is a David Bowie lyric. From back when David Bowie's lyrics were every bit as symbolistic (?) as say, Bob Dylans....
...But I digress and I have not even started.
When all the smoke clears I think I will conclude that my entire career has been devoted to better understanding of TIME. How to model it. What it means. How to build systems that understand it.
In coming posts, I will be coming back to it again and again but for now, let me start with this.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) is now an established acronym for an information management discipline in which the concept of TIME (and its co-joined twin) CHANGE, are central.
There is now a Tech Center in Ireland devoted to it : GRCTC and I am involved in it personally on behalf of Propylon.
Many other words get dragged in here too. Concepts like digital permanence, authenticity, provenance, audit trails, change markup, semantic deltas...
Some of these I have touched on here in the past, some not.
I think maybe I will start with blockchains as they are quite topical at the moment and I think blockchains is one of the first really interesting things to come along in the area of authenticity/provenance since the concept of Public Key Cryptography.
...But I digress and I have not even started.
When all the smoke clears I think I will conclude that my entire career has been devoted to better understanding of TIME. How to model it. What it means. How to build systems that understand it.
In coming posts, I will be coming back to it again and again but for now, let me start with this.
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) is now an established acronym for an information management discipline in which the concept of TIME (and its co-joined twin) CHANGE, are central.
There is now a Tech Center in Ireland devoted to it : GRCTC and I am involved in it personally on behalf of Propylon.
Many other words get dragged in here too. Concepts like digital permanence, authenticity, provenance, audit trails, change markup, semantic deltas...
Some of these I have touched on here in the past, some not.
I think maybe I will start with blockchains as they are quite topical at the moment and I think blockchains is one of the first really interesting things to come along in the area of authenticity/provenance since the concept of Public Key Cryptography.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Back in the blogging chair
Well, it has been a while since I blogged here. Have been using Facebook a lot for personal stuff and pondering the fact that I use RSS feedreaders less and less these days.
The time has come for me to get back into blogging - especially for technical stuff. Anybody who wants to follow what I am doing with my Banjo collection would be better served friending me on Facebook (
Not only am I back on this blog, I am also back in another sense. I moved back to Ireland a few months ago and now call Galway, Ireland "home".
Galway is a great town for both of my main interests : tech and music. The tech scene there is getting bigger and bigger. Plenty of big names but also a very vibrant start-up scene that I am getting hooked in to.
In Propylon, the core product group is expanding and we are doing more and more work in the general Legal&Regulatory space with TimeArc, alongside the Legislative Software (LWB). Its great to be able to take the tech we developed in Legislatures and apply it in the private sector.
Related to that. We have recently become an Industry Partner in the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Center (http://www.grctc.com). Looking forward to contributing to the that initiative in the years ahead. Much important stuff to be done there and lots (and lots!) of thorny problems yet to be solved.
The time has come for me to get back into blogging - especially for technical stuff. Anybody who wants to follow what I am doing with my Banjo collection would be better served friending me on Facebook (
http://www.facebook.com/seanmcgrath42) :-)
Not only am I back on this blog, I am also back in another sense. I moved back to Ireland a few months ago and now call Galway, Ireland "home".
Galway is a great town for both of my main interests : tech and music. The tech scene there is getting bigger and bigger. Plenty of big names but also a very vibrant start-up scene that I am getting hooked in to.
In Propylon, the core product group is expanding and we are doing more and more work in the general Legal&Regulatory space with TimeArc, alongside the Legislative Software (LWB). Its great to be able to take the tech we developed in Legislatures and apply it in the private sector.
Related to that. We have recently become an Industry Partner in the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Center (http://www.grctc.com). Looking forward to contributing to the that initiative in the years ahead. Much important stuff to be done there and lots (and lots!) of thorny problems yet to be solved.
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