Archive for October, 2008
Virtually murdered him, She did
Just when you thought that you'd heard it all, you read this story. A Japanese woman who is an avid player in one of these wonderful virtual life games was recently so livid at her unexpected online, virtual divorce to her online, virtual husband that she killed off his character - virtually murdering him! Basically it boils down to illegal access of a private account and destruction of personal property in the real world. However, virtual murder or not, this Japanese lady is facing serious real world jail time for her act of virtual insanity... source: Yahoo!
Dressing it up
The whole country has been up in arms since last week's budget and the announcement that the medical cards for the over-70s would be harshly means-tested. There were other controversial movements in the budget also but this seemingly is the one that has grabbed most of the headlines and caused the most controversy. The aim of the cut was to eliminate medical cards for "better off" pensioners. As Michael O'Leary said on Newstalk recently, the richer people in this country generally don't use medical cards because they have enough money for private health care and don't get in line at the local [...]
Budgie 2009 – Talk is cheep!
As words cannot contain the overwhelming feeling of rage that I have at the moment I will be brief. Earlier today I made a comment to Shane that if today's budget was delivered and the metro in Dublin was not cut from it, there would be no future for this country. The budget was delivered and it was announced that the estimated Eur 4 billion project would proceed to investigation with a view to uninterrupted continuance. I live in Waterford, a city that is looking to have its Institute of Technology re-designated to university status so that it can transform the entire South East region [...]
Oxbridge on iTunes
Yes, it would appear that the good folk at Oxford and Cambridge have decided to open up a wealth of their lectures to the general public. No indication of a fee that I can see nor if the material will be offered up for free, I hope it's the latter. Combined audio and video media will no doubt attract many an enthused mind. source: The Register
Decision on University for Waterford?
Following a line of questioning in the Dail yesterday by Brian O'Shea (Labour TD) to Batt O'Keefe (Minister for Education) on the subject of the outstanding application for re-designation of WIT as the University for the South East, the Minister said that a decision is likely within a matter of weeks. Read the story in the Irish Examiner.After so much stalemate and lack of response from the government on this matter, this is indeed a most welcome revelation. Everyone to send your e-mails, letters of support for this re-designation to the Minister and other government officials. This is a very [...]
