On the way into work this morning, listening to the radio as usual, I heard an advertisement for “National Mortgage Week”. Indeed it makes sense; Ireland has become so money driven and internally competitive amongst it’s inhabitants that the majority of the country can no longer afford a home or qualify for a mortgage. It’s… Read More »I wonder do Hallmark have a card for this?
Love it or hate it, the debate over e-voting will not go away for some time. This rough and ready article publicises the latest weighty protest against the system. Oh the poor minister will be sorry he didn’t stay in the dark ages. So much technological advancement and yet no trust of the underlying control.… Read More »Against e-Voting
With all the talk in recent weeks about Eircom coming back to the stock market there have been numerous shows on Tv and radio about the whole spectacle. Matt Cooper had a spokesperson for Valentia on The Last Word over a week ago issuing the statements that would inspire a deluge of rants against the… Read More »Re-floating Eircom
Well for those of you who haven’t heard yet Peter Jackson’s last installment of Lord of the Rings (Return of the King) cleaned up at last nights ceremony winning each of the 11 awards that it was nominated for. Sadly the Oscars is taken with a pinch of salt these days but when something justified… Read More »LOTR Cleans Up at the Academy
Just announced in this mornings paper. Hibernian are pushing the boat out again by saying that insurance premiums for motor policies are set to fall soon. I say not good enough. In one breath they issue hope inspiring comments and with the other they announce their operating profits of Eur 224M for the last year… Read More »Premiums to Fall?
Yup rest and relaxation were the order of the day again this weekend. Siân and I made a break for Kinnitty Castle just outside Birr, Co. Offally. Wonderful place and definitely worth visiting. We were there about 2 years ago also and had no hesitations in returning again, indeed we look forward to another visit… Read More »Rest and Relaxation
Well it had to happen at some stage and now it has. Starbucks the Seattle coffee company has already infested most of the world and now it looks set to take over the 32 counties. Finally, all Irish people can add a little more caffeine to their diets with a choice of every type of… Read More »Coming Soon… A Starbucks
Just migrated my MT install to use MySQL instead of Berkeley DB (default). Process really couldn’t have been simpler. The most difficult part was some port tunnelling (no not Dublin, rather SSH) to get my MySQL GUI to connect to the remote server. One new file, 3 new config entries and run a simple script… Read More »MT 2 DB
News just broken over night. It appears that the source code of Windows NT4/2K has been leaked and is available for download on the web at the moment. One source reporting on the leak said that “The ramifications of this leak are far reaching and devastating”. I thought to myself indeed this is true, if… Read More »Windows Source Leaked!
Well I abstained for a few days before posting this but what must be done and all that. Sunday saw the end of the latest “couldn’t be further from reality TV” show. You know the one, “I’m a Z-list celebrity, get me a new career”. This time around there was a collection of glamour models,… Read More »It’s Over, Now We Have Nothing to Fear