Month: April 2007

A plug for the bruvver

Thought I’d take a quick time-out to plug the brother’s blog over at http://anothercryingshame.blogspot.com. I particularly liked his post on the Electoral Consitutencies issue, especially his description of Dick Roche as the late lamented Government’s top crisis manager… which I quote here… …that man is the greatest crisis manager the FF/PD’s have. So great are …

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You cannot change the laws of physics.

So, the Dail has dissolved. The Mahon Tribunal has been frozen. The franchise of students and commuters has been all but evaporated. The Constitution appears to have been transformed into just an insubstantial vapour. My understanding of the physics of matter moving between states (from frozen to disolved for example) suggests to me that it …

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Dis Dissolution is catching…

RTE radio have just announced that the Mahon Tribunal is (as suspected) postponing the next phase of its hearings until after the election. What a fortuitous coincidence. It does recommence right after the election – when the haggling will be going on about who will be in the Government. Also, the brother has rowed in …

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Little victories..(?)

The good news The Minister for the Environment today announced the establishment of a Commission to review the electoral constituencies. This is exactly what he said couldn’t be done a few weeks ago, before the constitutional challenge to the current state of the constituencies was launched as the ‘final census figures weren’t in’. The figures …

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For the avoidance of doubt…

The first bit of doubt Various Dell representatives have explained to me my problem as being one of how my graphics card uses hypermemory. However that doesn’t resolve the issue that I the option I selected when building my machine was for a card with 256MB dedicated video RAM – the fact that it could …

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Better late then never..

RTE today have a story about the changing demographics revealed by the Census. This story mentions specifically the possible need for an additional TD in Dublin West as a result of the 8000 population growth in the area that the Census shows. RTE have, unfortunately, failed to point out the other constituencies that are under …

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Electoral Constituencies…

Interesting developments (well developments at least) over in the Hight Court… The Constitutional challenge to the Electoral boundaries will be heard next week. This isn’t really news to those of us who have been keeping an eye on mcgarrsolicitors over the past few weeks. What does it mean? Well it means that any chance of …

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What the Dell… an actual response… from a human!!

What are the odds? In the week that scientists tell us they have discovered a planet that might support alien life, I got a response from a live person in Dell. And not in their off-shored outsourced Call Centre neither… this one was from ‘Dell Central’. Rick (for that is his name) reached out to …

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Election in the offing…

There is an election in the offing here in Ireland. However there are (or rather should be) some concerns still about the quality of the electoral register. Over on the IQ Network site there is a short article about the importance of timeliness of information as a measure of its quality and accuracy.. An important …

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