I’ve been following the case recently of Liam Lawlor and all the disputes involved with extracting any information from the man. Personnally I would dub him to be Ireland’s answer to “Comical Ali” (Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf – the Iraqi information minister) thanks to his humourous denials of basically everything and suggesting otherwise. Last evening on… Read More »I Didn’t, I Don’t Have To
Q. What goes no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes? A. Minister Seamus Brennan being questioned about whether the Luas project was actually wrong in it’s approach to solving the problems of inner-city transport. I heard this on the news earlier this morning on the way to work and seemingly it comes from an… Read More »A Screw Luas?
Last night I sat down to watch the 9 o’clock news and within 30 minutes I was sickened by quite a number of things. Firstly, good old Hairy Marney (aka Mary Harney) showing up to the announcement of new jobs in Cork, I ask where was she when 3-com announced losses? Surely her support was… Read More »Things That Make Me Sick
Answer – when it’s also a WiFi hotspot of course! At last people have copped onto the obvious and BT are capitalising upon existing infrastructure to enable WiFi hotspots where they already have payphones feeding off an existing line. The new devices will be vandal proof and will be rolled out swiftly enough due to… Read More »When is a Payphone Not Just a Payphone?
Just picked this article refernce up off Rob’s Rants. It’s a great piece by Robert Fisk on the 2 years since September 11th, 2001. The world has been mislead into using their sympathy and loss against those whom had nothing to do with it. A cunningly contrived battle plan that gathered the trust of mislead… Read More »2 Years On
At this stage most of us in the technology world will have either read or seen an extract from the report “Windows is cheaper than Linux”. The age old battle between the two rivals perpetuates. This time around instead of unconvincing reports indicating a certain supremacy a factual approach has been adopted. The linked article… Read More »My Bike’s Nicer than Yours
Well, well the RIAA have really pulled out all the stops in hammering down on the illegal music sharing demons of this world. Luckilly for us all they have captured the most heinous of those involved by bringing action against a 12-year-old girl from New York. C’mon aren’t there laws against that sort of thing?… Read More »RIAA Just Kidding
Well maybe not so much doomed as loomed. Another story woven to grab the publics attention and what better way than with terror as the theme. Yes whether it be some hard hitting fundamentalist group or space rocks, people will always respond to terror news or news that strikes fear into the hearts of the… Read More »Doomed I Say!