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 …
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…
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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The Irish Government have again trundled out a proposal to force mandatory registration of pre-paid mobile phones. It is stated that this will be a wonderful weapon in the war on drugs, organised crime and pixies. There are two small problems with the proposal as it currently stands. It is unlikely to work as the …
The counting of votes for the Irish Senate begins today. As a graduate of the National University of Ireland, UCD I had expected to have a vote. As a member of the Alumni Association (and a regular recipient of the lovely colour magazine produced by the University Alumni office) I should have received my ballot …
Breaking News.ie reports this morning on a Sunday Tribune story that Tom Parlon, former junior minister in charge of the OPW, is to lead the Construction Industry Federation in a legal challenge against the policies of the OPW on awarding fixed-price contracts. This is a policy that he championed while in Government. He is quite …
Tom Parlon, one of the former PD TDs and bookie’s favourite to take the leadership once the paperwork about the PD consitiution requiring the leader to be a sitting TD was sorted out, has resigned. He has been head-hunted by the Construction Industry Federation. As ever, there is much comment on this over at IrishElection.com …