After yesterday’s poll results were announced, with respect to the opinion of voters on the Lisbon Treaty, the “no” vote has almost doubled since the last opinion poll. Am I surprised? Well frankly no, I’m not. It’s like I have said to many people on numerous occasions in the past. Those swinging towards a “no”… Read More »Lisbon looking more likely to be rejected
Appearing in today’s Times’ letters page: “Madam, – My home has so far received the emergency planning booklet four times. Is the Government trying to tell Ballsbridge residents something? – Yours, etc,” Well, yes, I guess that the government is trying to tell us all something. While some people in the country get feck all… Read More »D4 on alert
Read this on the Reg. It’s a 3-D printer made by some clever clogs in Bath. Claimed to be the first machine of its kind because it can print a copy of itself – like how cool is that! Although it would somewhat hamper future sales of the device. Basically the device sprays moulds molten plastic… Read More »RepRap
The Canadian police! Well, it’s a mystery that the Canadian police are trying to figure out. Reading my gmail one of their news snippets along the top caught my eye. Seemingly over the past 10 months in Canada 4 severed human feet have washed up on different islands in the one area. Truly bizarre is… Read More »What’s got 4 feet and no body?
There is a lot of talk about the vote on the Lisbon treaty and we are fast approaching the time of voting. I have been speaking to a lot of people about this matter and the opinions are greatly varied. However, it is very worrying that the proportion of people who still do not know what… Read More »Reasons to reject Lisbon, 1, 2, 3
So, Tibet; I haven’t yet made a statement on what I think about the events unfolding around the Olympic Games in China this year and the protests as a result of the human rights violations in Tibet. It’s tricky to say why really without offending somebody but here goes anyway. In the last couple of… Read More »Human Rights and Political Wrongs
Much like Paul and Shane, I have a hard time resisting these little “what xyz are you” tests. Today’s offering is “What Superhero are you?”. I seem to lean towards a majority Spiderman/Flash, no doubt because I failed to say that I hate redheads which invariably means that I am somehow enthralled by Mary Jane… Read More »I’m a mixture of superheros
I had wondered for the last few days where my daily dosage of Dilbert in my Google Reader had gone to. Today I see an update on the old feed to alert me to a new feed URL (http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip). So I’m back in Dilbert land again. In addition to the new URL all the comic… Read More »Dilbert goes to Feedburner
Well-known Irish blogger Tom Raftery is soon departing our shores for sunny Spain and behind him, he leaves the CIX data centre that he and others put some fantastic work into making Ireland’s greenest data centre. However, with Tom’s new pursuit comes a great opportunity for somebody else. Tom is selling his shares in CIX… Read More »Thinking of investing? A change of career?
So often in my line of work, technology, I encounter the dilemma of watching technology emerge that does not directly benefit the end users; technology that sometimes makes life needlessly difficult. So, it’s at a time like this when I hear about a new development where technology is applied to a useful purpose that will… Read More »Navigating through history