Year: 2004


  • Good news for Ireland today. It appears that a compant interested in providing internet names for mobile devices is to set up a HQ here. The effort is in an […]

  • Spammers Beware

    Just announced that some of the top US e-mail providers have taken legal action against some of the known spam offenders in the US. About time too, as long as […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • MT 2 DB

    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, […]