A couple of years ago I was talking to some friends about the political climate. In terms of party politics, the PDs had been decimated, Fianna Fáil had seized the country’s minds through no fault of their own but rather a global boom period of 10 years, Fine Gael were suffering because of the digs… Read More »Fruits of our New Labour?
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
Pythagoras Originally uploaded by jbwan Our new rabbit arrived home yesterday to his newly constructed hutch which I have made 1000% cat proof – I even find it difficult to get into it myself to give him his food and water. His name is Pythagoras but his friends call him Pi for short. 🙂 He’s… Read More »Meet Pythagoras
Apparently a teenager in the US has been arrested under the suspicion of making terror threats and making up a “hit list” of people. Shockingly enough the name of Chuck “He counted to infinity twice” Norris, made it onto that list. A bit of advice kid, don’t mess with anyone who can slam a revolving… Read More »High School Kid Targets Chuck
For ages now, I and others have been awaiting the voice of Danny O’Hare to appear in the national media, attacking the case for a university in the South East. It’s pretty sad really that somebody could be so predictable as to have people watching the papers and waiting for him but there you go.… Read More »Someone dusted off Danny
I awoke this morning to see the entire of my garden covered in a blanket of snow – yes it is April 7th. Momentarily filled with childish glee I starred out over the blank canvas and dappled decking, recalling childhood memories of simpler times. When I was growing up we had a few good snowfalls in the… Read More »Wonderland
Yesterday, I and a number of other volunteers for the University for the South East campaign finished our 120 mile run from Waterford to Dublin where we staged a rally outside Leinster House and handed a letter of support for the university over to the Dáil. Thanks to all the national press people who were… Read More »And Bertie Wept…
Apparently an Irish business group has got together to propose that Easter should fall on a fixed date each year. Now this is just brilliant! The article is citing that the group wants all manner of altruistic causes to be served by a fixed date for Easter but why would a business group want things that… Read More »Fixed Easter?
Tip of the hat to JazzBiscuit for showing me this first and as such I’m trailing way behind the world of recent events by posting this but the more I think about it, the more it is worth a post. Many out there will be aware of the name Sophie Merry, who at this stage… Read More »You too could be a star