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Avast what it is you are doing me mateys. Today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day and all ye landlubbers should be loaded to the Gunwales with a fathom of ale. Y’arrrrr. more: International Talk Like A Pirate Day
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Q. What goes no, no, no, no, no, no, no, yes? A. Minister Seamus Brennan being questioned about whether the Luas project was actually wrong in it’s approach to solving the problems of inner-city transport. I heard this on the news earlier this morning on the way to work and seemingly it comes from an…
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Last night I sat down to watch the 9 o’clock news and within 30 minutes I was sickened by quite a number of things. Firstly, good old Hairy Marney (aka Mary Harney) showing up to the announcement of new jobs in Cork, I ask where was she when 3-com announced losses? Surely her support was…
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Answer – when it’s also a WiFi hotspot of course! At last people have copped onto the obvious and BT are capitalising upon existing infrastructure to enable WiFi hotspots where they already have payphones feeding off an existing line. The new devices will be vandal proof and will be rolled out swiftly enough due to…
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Just picked this article refernce up off Rob’s Rants. It’s a great piece by Robert Fisk on the 2 years since September 11th, 2001. The world has been mislead into using their sympathy and loss against those whom had nothing to do with it. A cunningly contrived battle plan that gathered the trust of mislead…
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At this stage most of us in the technology world will have either read or seen an extract from the report “Windows is cheaper than Linux”. The age old battle between the two rivals perpetuates. This time around instead of unconvincing reports indicating a certain supremacy a factual approach has been adopted. The linked article…
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Well, well the RIAA have really pulled out all the stops in hammering down on the illegal music sharing demons of this world. Luckilly for us all they have captured the most heinous of those involved by bringing action against a 12-year-old girl from New York. C’mon aren’t there laws against that sort of thing?…
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Amazingly, Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief guru is leaving the company to pursue other challenges. One has to wonder if he has been drafted by Chelsea for something or other. source: The Register
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Well maybe not so much doomed as loomed. Another story woven to grab the publics attention and what better way than with terror as the theme. Yes whether it be some hard hitting fundamentalist group or space rocks, people will always respond to terror news or news that strikes fear into the hearts of the…
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I was listening to the news last night and heard an interesting report about the efficiency of the Irish workers. It seems that in the productivity stakes even though we work less hours on average than the market leader America, we still put out comparatively good worth per capita figures. This all means that the…