Month: January 2008

Stuck on the train – go on line? WTF

The Dublin Chamber of Commerce has called for the roll-out of wireless broadband access on public transport including Dart, buses and commuter trains to support the development of Dublin as a ‘knowledge city’. Frankly, speaking as a regular long haul commuter (Wexford to Dublin by train or bus, hail rain or shine), this is just …

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Facebook & Data Protection

The Younger McGarr (Simon that is) has a very detailed and well written post on the data protection issues that arise (and seemingly are ignored) by Facebook. It can be found over at the McGarr Solicitors website. He has already picked up some complimentary comments, including one from Thomas Otter (who has written on these …

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Getting back to my Information Quality agenda

One or two of the comments (and emails) I received after the previous post here were enquiring about some stuff I’d written previously (2006 into 2007) about the state of the Irish Electoral Register. It is timely that some people visited those posts as our Local Elections are coming up in less than 18 months …

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No child of John Waters will ever marry a… blogger

So there I was, in that horrid hypnogogic state between wakefulness and dreams, when I heard John Waters’ voice booming in my ears like the baritone chimes of God himself (or maybe that was Charlton Heston). “Ahh”, thought I hypnogogically, “this will be one of those pontifical nightmares I get after too much cheese and …

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