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A warming story of a DART passenger who was fined and accused of fare-evasion only to have the court find in his favour. The accused simply gave an account of the ridiculous tiket sales point and the huge queues involved in order to catch a DART when he was under extreme time pressure. The judge…
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The wonderful OECD have come to the amazing conclusion that competition in the market might help to curb inflation. Hmm let me see, decreased monopoly in certain areas, reduced prices, lower consumer spending (assuming excess demand for superflous items is not an issue). Now how did they ever come to that conclusion??? source: Irish Times…
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Nice article on the Reg about the stupidity of computer users. A topic very close to me and a theme that I constantly sound. Computers and software are generally not that unsafe, it’s the users who are unsafe!! source: The Register
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Well exactly one month to the day that Siân and I tied the knot. Just about have all the photos together now from the various sources but still a few to come. The picture below is Siân’s favourite and as such makes an appearance here. 🙂
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When Vodafone announced that they would be launching 3G in Ireland nobody ever even doubted that the cost to the consumer would be large. However, it has now emerged that the Irish customer base will have to pay significantly more than our British counterparts. Que sera, sera at this stage. It’s the same with everything…
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A new study has supposedly shown that the quality of life enjoyed by Irish people ranks highest in the world. I’d love to know how this study was conducted and exactly how many people outside of D4 were surveyed. To me the gross divide between rich and poor, the spiralling cost of living and the…
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Well I’m back to general life after a few weeks break enjoying the sites of Cape Town on our honeymoon. Fabulous place and well worth a visit if you can hack the long flight. Anyway I say the essence of guilt, essence being the French word for petrol and no other reason. It has come…
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Well, Siân and I got married and the whole day was great. I think I managed to keep face with the speech but I’ll have to wait for the video. 🙂 A great day was had by all and just looking forward to the rest of our lives now.
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I laughed yesterday when I heard this; the e-voting machines in the Florida voting area for the presidential election have crashed causing a wee bit of excitement amongst those interested in challenging the outcome of the election. It’s not the first time that something strange has happened in the Florida area. I sincerely hope that…
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Articles like this are great. Somebody has made a mistake but doesn’t want to tell anyone about it and then the story leaks without all the details making the whole fiasco sound really bad. Anyway the basic story is that NTL are calling upon all phone customers to disconnect their NTL service due to possible…