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…
The Irish Green Party recently entered coalition with the Fianna Fail party to form a government in Ireland. As part of this coalition, we now have a Green Party TD (member of parliament) as Minister for the Environment. Today, Mr Gormley came out in favour of Electronic Voting. Well, actually that isn’t entirely correct.. he …
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A few things peeve me on the web. One of them is website form validators that do not recognise tlds other than .com, .org or a country tld. These validators seem oblivious to the fact that since 2000 ICANN has been rolling out ‘new’ tlds to take the ‘pressure’ off the .com and .org domains …
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?
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 …
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 …
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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