Year: 2008


  • Believe it or not a custom error message has been patented. Who’d have thought it? What next, the delay period between page loads? source: Slashdot

  • Rogue Trader

    Just heard yesterday that a rogue trader working in France has cost a major French bank about Eur 4.9 billion. How come everytime a recession is forecast that a rogue […]

  • Undecided?

    It would appear that voters are currently undecided on whether or not the Taoiseach should resign after all this recent surface scratching has revealed. 44% think he should go and […]

  • That’s what Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007 will be called or so the official word, released today, says. Rumour is that the film will be out in November and […]

  • Every now and then in Ireland, the issue of counties acknowledging each other for what they are pops up. Dublin, being the biggest City in the republic, often has its […]

  • 777 Jackpot?

    Last week we all heard the news of a plane crash at Heathrow in London. The Boeing 777 passenger jet seemingly lost power to both of its engines and only […]

  • Backed Up?

    Normally us computer users freak out over not backing up important data at times when we lose it. We always say that it will never happen again and we pontificate […]

  • In Ireland we have a body called the HSE (Health Service Executive) that supposedly is there to manage the health sector and keep problems at bay. Straight away when you […]

  • Well that’s not entirely true, I do have a bit of an interest in anything that the space pioneers get up to but the subject of this post would not […]

  • Reading in yesterday’s headlines, some bad news for Irish mobile company Mobile Aware. The company has sought the protection of the court and has had an examiner appointed to try […]