Month: August 2007

Jaysus, did they never see The Commitments?

Today’s Irish Examiner website made me chuckle today. In case they’ve fixed the error, the headline as of 15:00 today is “More than 17,000 new heroine injectors in scheme”. The question is, what are they injecting? The full “Lara Croft” (or other famous female heroine), liquidised Lara or just “essence” of Lara?

The evolution of Information Quality

I was googling today (or doing some googlage) for blogs that deal with Information and Data Quality topics. Needless to say yours truly did appear reasonably highly the search results. One post that I came across that really made me think a bit was this one from Andrew Brooks, currently a Senior Consultant with Cap …

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Trademark 2.0 Review

R.Todd Stephens is a very interesting man. I’ve met him and have sat through an incredibly interesting tutorial he gave back in 2006 in London on Enterprise Metadata. What interested me most about his presentation was how he was referring to tools and technologies that I was tinkering with to try and improve communication of …

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Irish Government considering abandoning mandatory retirement age

RTE news this evening (2007/08/08) reported that the Irish Government was considering removing the mandatory retirement age of 65. Historically, the concept of a mandatory age for retirement has its origins in the 19th Century. Germany was the first country to introduce a state-funded retirement pension in 1889. Otto von Bismarck set the retirement age …

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Dell hell comes to an end…

My Dell Hell has come to an end. The outcome is not entirely what I had hoped for, but at least the issue has been resolved and I understand what has beeng going on. Thanks to John who took the time to follow through and look at the information that I had posted on this …

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