Month: May 2004


  • Looks like more good news to come on the tech front. Amazon look to be setting up a new centre in Ireland to create more jobs for the country. First […]

  • News broke late yesterday that Intel was to create 400 new jobs in Ireland by 2006 with an investment of Eur1.6bn in a new manufacturing plant. Good news for any […]

  • Some months ago I rambled on about software patents and the very bad potential effects of such. The debate faded into the background for a while but never disappeared. Now […]

  • Soft-war

    MS vs Google? Google vs MS? One’s huge and the other’s massive; this competition will be a battle of the really big guns. The fight for search supremacy is about […]

  • Thanks to Seรกn H for this link. Reports of two soldiers whose casual cigarettes set off a small ammunition store causing $725M of damage and killed 5 people. source: Reuters.com

  • This weekend, just gone, saw my home city of Waterford host a very prestigious meeting of the European environment ministers at WIT. It was great to see the city and […]

  • Thanks to Paul M for this link. It seems as though the Irish Post Office has issued a new stamp to celebrate the EU expansion. The stamp features a map […]