From time to time the DoBlog allows honoured guests to write posts (well I would if anyone asked). When I’m stuck for honoured guests, sometimes I invite family, and I even let them get a byline on the piece. No cuttypasty-and-claim-as-my-own here thanky much. This post is penned by the brother. If he would actually …
Darren over at the Crabbling Otter has laid down a challenge to me, which was in turn given to him by GrannyMar. The challenge is to write my memoir in six words. It is harder then you think. I normally take 20 words to say hello and forty eight to say goodbye. Worked diligently, invested …
It seems that there is a deal imminent in the US Writers Strike. Lawyers are due to present the final draft to the writers and studios tomorrow. But already Joe Esterhaz has been lined up to ‘sex it up’ for the masses and Jerry Bruckheimer will produce the mammoth deal, with Paul Verhoven lined up …
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 …
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 …