Yes, yes it does. After a 6 year love affair, full of torrid scenes and much questionable content, I have finally switched my blogging software from MovableType to WordPress. I know, I know, I said I’d never do it but with the flick of a switch… it happened. That pretty much sums it all up too, as to why I eventually turned my back on MT and changed lanes to WordPress. Everything in WordPress is pretty much the click of a switch. Plug-ins are easier to manage and I never seem to have trouble finding what I want. Themes are more readily available and I can swap them at the click of a link every week if I want. The admin interface is straightforward and simple. I prefer the WYSIWYG window for editing text and managing pages, posts, comments, etc. Comment SPAM moderation is simpler and Askimet is decent enough so I don’t have to worry too much any more. Overall I finally have to admit that for my needs, WordPress is well, just better for everything that I need to do. So lost is the aspect of my personality born when I first installed SuSE 5.2 and told Windows users that they were missing out. Perhaps this is a major turning point in my entire outlook on life? Crikey JB, it’s only a style change and some new software – deep, very deep…

Except it’s the customers who are being held up. Finally a report confirming what we all expected and certainly what I and many others have been suggesting for a long time now. Irish customers are having the mickey taken out of them by petrol stations operating within the Republic. According to this report petrol is roughly 11% more expensive in Ireland than the EU average and diesel is up to 20% more expensive in Ireland compared to the EU average. Anyone who has been following the price of fuel at the pump since 2004 when all the hype over oil prices formally hit the consumer market will know that there is next to no linkage between the price of oil and the price of fuel at the pump. If there was we would have been paying over Eur 2 per litre of petrol in March of this year considering oil was more than two and a half times the price per barrel as it was in 2004 when petrol was roughly 95.9 c per litre (Waterford City figure). This is yet another example of the Irish being ripped off and the government doing nothing about it. The fact that diesel is so much more expensive than the EU average comes as no surprise given the recent increase in diesel engines on the road for both environmental and economical reasons. Didn’t take the fuel companies long to figure that one out! source: Irish Times