I haven’t had a good rant in a while but sitting down, discussing wedding plans with Siân recently brought some things to mind. Why does the exploitation of other people�s happiness form part of an accepted Irish culture? This could be a multi-episode thread but today we’ll focus on hairdressers. Yes, the MX-5 driving, dirty… Read More »Thursday Tantrum
A new study has shown that the morale of IT workers is at rock-bottom due to the supposed downtown over the last few years. Some comapnies are offering “employee recognition programmes” in order to boost that feel good factor. Go on ya good thing, ya code like a divil! source: IT workers’ morale hits rock-bottom… Read More »And the ‘morale’ of the story is…
Funny the way SMS leads to a lack of clarity due to the imposed limit on the message length. Seemingly some poor guy in Bristol was arrested recently as a potential terrorist after sending the lyrics of a song to another friend. It looks like the message was intercepted and then traced back to the… Read More »Is Your SMS Safe?
Thanks to Andrew B for this link to a new device that really blows all other hadnhelds out of the water. A new mobile device that runs Windows XP with a 1GHz processor and full USB & FireWire capabilities. Due out this Autumn for a price of less than US$2000 this could be the end… Read More »Power to the Pocket
The “computer is the network”, “the network is the storage”, “the thigh bone is connected to the knee bone” and so on. Some of these phrases have been associated with Sun throughout the years and like all good computer companies their focus has shifted with time. These days Sun are appearing to move back to… Read More »W is for Workstation
Banks have been in the news recently and have dominated the conversations of everyone with respect to the breaking stories. Overcharging, misuse of advantage share options, the ever prevailant off-shore accounts, browsing websites resulting in very high management resigning, and more. Where will it all end? I don’t think that anyone in this country has been happy with banks for some time now but surely a reform must now be in order? source: Irish Times
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Looks like more good news to come on the tech front. Amazon look to be setting up a new centre in Ireland to create more jobs for the country. First it was Google a while back and now Amazon on the back of Intel’s announcement yesterday, things are looking up indeed! source: Irish Times Note:… Read More »More Good Tech News
News broke late yesterday that Intel was to create 400 new jobs in Ireland by 2006 with an investment of Eur1.6bn in a new manufacturing plant. Good news for any tech workers who are being abused in their current employment. Things are on the up again and you don’t have to stay in your lousy,… Read More »Good News for Tech Jobs
Some months ago I rambled on about software patents and the very bad potential effects of such. The debate faded into the background for a while but never disappeared. Now it seems as though for the second time in a short space of time; the Irish presidency of the EU is foregoing in the opinion… Read More »OpenSource in Danger