I’m a Linux. It started as a curiosity, just to see what all the fuss was about. I’m not sure what year it was, but I was still using Windows 95 at the time, and the only Linux GUI available at the time was X Windows, so that will give you an idea. It looked …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
Jan 10
Out With The Old
Patrick Neary had announced he will step down as chief executive of the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority. The decision comes on the same day the Authority received a report on the failure to act for almost a year following the discovery of controversial loans transfers by Anglo Irish chairman Sean Fitzpatrick. In a statement, …
Jan 09
My Internet Is Broken
Technical problems mean I couldn’t log on to update this blog last night. Email was down too, for the second time in under a week. Normal service will be resumed as soon as my hosting service gets it’s act together, or I bite the bullet and move somewhere else.
Jan 09
Gone East
The impotence of government ministers was laid bare today, as pc maker Dell Inc went ahead with it’s plans to slash most of the jobs in it’s Limerick screwdriver assembly plant. Tánaiste Mary Coughlan and defence minister Willie O’Dea – who hails from the constituency of Limerick East – travelled to Dell headquarters in Texas …
Jan 08
Here Today
I spent today trying to track down some news photographs for a project. Checking copyright assignment, getting clearance for reproduction rights, that sort of thing. I’ve traced the majority of the of the images I need, but what disturbed me as I searched was how difficult a relatively straightforward task has become. In one case, …
Jan 07
Class Act
Government ministers have increased pressure on Beverly Flynn to give up her €41K independent’s allowance. Speaking on The Last Word with Matt Cooper on Today FM Éamon Ó Cuív said Beverly Flynn’s decision to continue claiming the independent TDs allowance was unwise. ‘I think she’s foolish.’ ‘I heard the technical point that she has made …
Jan 06
Change of Tack
This is the second 200 Words of 2009. Since I began this blog in early June of last year, I’ve written a total of 135 articles. At two hundred words each, that’s a total of 27000 words. At least, that’s the word count according to OpenOffice.org’s Writer software, but the wordpress blogging software I use …
Jan 06
A Bit Of A TV Column
I really wanted to enjoy ‘This Is Nightlive‘ on RTE2 this evening. Ireland desperately needs a decent outlet for satire, and an Irish take on the Today Show and Stephen Colbert looked like an ideal vehicle. Sadly, RTÉ continues it’s flawless record of producing bad comedy. And I don’t mean ‘so bad it’s good’. Just …