Just heard on the news this morning that the Australian adventure seeker, known best as “Crocodile Hunter” was killed in a tragic diving accident. The early stories coming from the scene point the blame at a sting ray that was in the area. Sadly for Steve the encounter was fatal. Like so many adventure seekers,… Read More »Steve Irwin RIP
As I struggled this week with Blogger acting very slowly for me I decided to express my woes to the ever knowledgeable Open mailing list, whom without fail returned with backup and alternative suggestions. I never realised the wealth of free blogging options available out there. Most will provide you with your own user.service.com URL… Read More »Free Blogging?
Just recently something has started to play on my mind: The number of recent film productions that are rated PG or 12. It seems like it has been forever since a 15 or 18 rated movie was made. Okay there have been some but not many. There are many reasons, I suppose, as to why… Read More »Picture This
The equality authority has warned car rental companies and insurance companies against the improper practice of blanket banning people because of age alone. While I welcome this action by the authority it is a shame that they have only focussed it at the elderly, specifically those who are holidaymakers in the country, rather than including… Read More »Old News
It has emerged today that the CAO has made a significant blunder in the processing of this years college applications. At least 20 students who sent in change of mind forms fell victim to a computer problem that was known by the CAO but which they never informed the students of. To be honest, with… Read More »CAO Won’t Change Mind
It would appear that a small Dublin-based company has claimed to have found the answer to all our energy needs. Free energy! They have launched a challenge to all scientists to prove their claims to be wrong. In the meantime I’m sure that the government is investigating a way of taxing this free energy and… Read More »Free Energy?
This week I finally came to grips with a large amount of Hibernate logic. Still by no means an expert on this new-fangled technology but definitely making progress. For those not in the know, Hibernate is a lightweight framework for database connectivity in Java, replacing the old JDBC type connectivity that gave us all so… Read More »Time to Hibernate
The British government published it energy review yesterday and sadly it has included the building of nuclear power plants to meet their energy needs. I sincerely hope that all Irish people will rise up in protest against this given the safety record maintained by Sellafield’s reprocessing plant. It’s clear that the level of care and… Read More »British Nuclear Plan
This week beginning 10 July 2006 has been particularly bad for Irish families. Road deaths appear to be dramatically rising, although the way the media portrays it you would think it was 100’s more than last year instead of the real figure of 22 compared with this time in 2005. Now I’m not making light… Read More »12 people, 48 hours – a death every 240 minutes