Archive for November, 2008
Things get steamy in drink driving case
I just followed this article via Damien Mulley’s Fluffy Links and could not believe what I was reading. Talk about an open-minded judge. Apparently, two drink driving cases recently heard in Kerry, were thrown out of court because the judge felt that in the legally required 20 minutes before taking the “final” breath test, the [...]
Knightrider fever as Mercedes team up with KIT
Well that’s not entirely true and it doesn’t have anything to do with Germans and “The Hoff”. The KIT in this instance is the Karlshrue Institute of Technology and Mercedes has teamed up with the IT to establish a centre for research into the area of electric car development. This is a great move by [...]
Super, clever, genius!
Three words that certainly do not describe the text message that I just got from O2.
Hi, here’s a great way you can get your hands on a prepay iPhone. Why not ask family and friends for prepay iPhone vouchers this Christmas. From O2
Wow! Simply wow! In these times of recession and supposedly all retailers are [...]
I’m Dreaming of a Tight Christmas…
I’m dreaming of a tight Christmas,
Just like the one in ‘84.
When the minister’s gone fishin’
and people start wishin’
To the sound of an economy gone below.
I’m dreaming of a tight Christmas,
With every pathetic government slight.
You may take a ferry, or flight,
And leave Ireland long out of sight.
I’m dreaming of a tight Christmas,
A Christmas when the future’s [...]
E really does equal mc^2
Finally after about 100 years scientists have confirmed Albert Einstein’s famous equation of E = mc^2. Leading experts in the field of theoretical physics have utilised some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to set down the calculations for estimating the mass of protons and neutrons allowing them to finally prove that energy [...]
Above all else, the company is ok!
Just picked this up from Pat Phelan’s update on Twitter. A press release issued by a company in which there were horrific and tragic shootings recently, in America. The focus of the press release seems more concerned with stating that the company is ok and no layoffs were ever the case in the company’s history [...]
Very cool ad
The new Toshiba advert - very cool indeed!
Balance. What Balance?
Those who know me will know that I’ve always been a passionate campaigner for the equal rights of the young, both in my youth and even now that I slip beyond technically being “young”. No more so has my anger against age discrimination been shown than against the ridiculous car insurance market in Ireland. I [...]
2-4-6-8 Who do we not vaccinate?
Sadly the answer to that in recent times has been all those, of a young age, who could avail of the new wonder vaccine for cervical cancer in Ireland. This post was prompted by listening to the Ray D’Arcy show on Today FM this morning when Health Minister, Mary Harney, took her life into her [...]
The Past and the President
Dawn’s early light illuminated my living room while I lay asleep. A new light for a new day; little did I realise in my semi-conscious state that this was the dawn of a new age.
Abraham Lincoln had ratified, in 1865, a bill that would become known as the emancipation of the slaves in America. While [...]
