So yet another year draws to a close. Usually around this time of year I try to take a few hours to review how things went, what worked and what still needs to be worked on in the coming year. In most cases that is very personal appraisal of whether I had a ‘quality’ year …
Vodafone have launched a Christmas e-card site with a difference called Bosco is back. On this site you can put together a custom video e-card featuring Bosco, a perennial kids TV favourite in Ireland. Why does this site peeve me? Well, due to the way the video is put together (pre-recorded video clips that are …
So, Christmas is coming, the Goose is getting fat. I thought I’d put some euros in Jeff Bezo’s hat.. So I decided to try to order some Xbox games as part of my Christmas shopping. I fully expected to get big “DANGER WILL ROBINSON” warnings for all the purchases given Amazon’s decision NOT to sell …
As IÂ write this I’m travelling on the new evening rail service from Wexford to Dublin. It is really good. Cleverly Irish Rail have figured out that if they run a commuter service between Wexford and Waterford (using the lines previously hogged by Sugar beet trains that are no more) then they can run a service …
Amazon. The f*ckers. Yet again they decide to clumsily shaft the residents of the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland. Their Amazon Prime service has been launched and I was all clicky-fingered ready to sign up and pay my stg£49 to get this useful service. However, I forgot just how crap Amazon are at …
Hmmm… perhaps I should have wished for that time machine after all. I keep missing deadlines for the Science Week thing. Today’s question is “What invention has helpd you most with your working life” As my job centres on computing and computery things many people would expect me to say “the computer” or “d’Internet”. But …
Curses. I missed the deadline for yesterday’s competition over on Mulley.net to win a Wii in National Science week. I will not make the same mistake twice. Today’s question is “What invention would you like to see most in the future?“. Given I missed yesterday’s deadline I was tempted to go for a TARDIS or …
I’ve been playing around with e-Touch meeting room from Onlinemeetingrooms.com for the past while. To put it bluntly… this product does exactly what it says on the tin. It is a meeting room It is online It just works Recently an event I was involved in as a speaker had a problem. A speaker had …
Economy on the slide. House prices falling. Talk of having to raise taxes to cover essential day to day costs of running the government. Rumblings of voluntary redundancies in the Health Services, grumblings of the need to ensure more productivity in public services before further benchmarking payments are made… and all this after an election …
A while back I reviewed Trademark2.0 by R.Todd Stephens. The book is now available from Amazon.co.uk… My review of the book can be found here…