So, according to the Irish Examiner, John Cleese has hinted that he may offer his services as a speech-writer to Barrack Obama should Obama get the Democratic nomination. Oh good grief. Hilary Clinton has no option now but to go after Eric Idle to counteract the gag-meistery of Cleese. I’m looking forward to her speech …
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 …
I am a blood donor. I am proud of it. I have provided quite a lot of sensitive personal data to the IBTS over the years that I’ve been donating. The specific purposes for which I believed I was providing the information was to allow the IBTS to administer communications with me as a donor …
The quest of The Raiders of the Lost Wii draws to a close. What was the best invention of 2007? Invention, rather than product development is how I think of this. The Nokia N95 might be a contender, but it is simply an evolution of existing things. Likewise the Iphone. Neither are particularly unique. My …
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 saw this link on the BBC this morning and it made me think of the potential implications for the quality of information presentation if MS Word docs begin to be localised not just to national languages but to regional dialects within those language families. The implication for the quality of information presentation, and the …
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Two Fianna Fail Ministers have suggested that the media are obsessed with the Taoiseach’s finances. I’d have to agree with them. There is a whole lot more that they can look at other than that issue. Like The likely fate of the newly discovered national monument in the middle of the M3 The divisive nature …
What are the odds? In the week that scientists tell us they have discovered a planet that might support alien life, I got a response from a live person in Dell. And not in their off-shored outsourced Call Centre neither… this one was from ‘Dell Central’. Rick (for that is his name) reached out to …
What the Dell… an actual response… from a human!! Read More »
There is an election in the offing here in Ireland. However there are (or rather should be) some concerns still about the quality of the electoral register. Over on the IQ Network site there is a short article about the importance of timeliness of information as a measure of its quality and accuracy.. An important …