From RTÉ this morning:
The HSE has suspended around 20 electricians at a number of acute hospitals in the south of the country in a dispute over work practice changes.
Another 20 electricians are expected to be removed from the pay-roll later today if they continue to refuse to answer pagers or take instructions in writing and […]

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Just got this in my inbox, in case anybody wants to go to something free.
This year the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland will host our annual public outreach lecture during Ireland’s national Science Week (11th November until the 18th November). The speaker is Dr Michael Stebbins and he has an interesting spin on American […]

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According to my contact in Apple, they have sold 2,000,000 copies of the new Leopard operating system in the first weekend. Wow. This is by far the fastest they have ever sold and operating system.
I’m still cross with Apples pricing policy now that the Euro and the Dollar are so different in value. […]

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I’m shocked and stunned. The biggest business in terms of start-ups this year is the housing business. How is this the case when the dogs in the street are yelling that it is all going to collapse?
The latest figures come from Bank of Ireland and are being reported by RTE today.
Maybe the reality […]

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Arizona State University’s Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has a new take on old memory, one that promises to boost the performance, capacity and battery life of consumer electronics from digital cameras to laptops. Best of all, it is cheap, made from common materials and compatible with just about anything currently on the market.
“In using […]

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OK. The statistics have come out on the provisional driving test and somebody was just on the TV advising the provisional drivers that they need to get tuition and to come to the driving centres for their tests in a good state of preparedness.
That is the real problem. Fewer than 50% of applicants […]

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I went for dinner last Thursday night with an Italian Palaeontologist from Bristol. I have to confess it was great. I love palaeontology and dinosaurs and one of the best books you can read (no, seriously) is The Dinosaur Hunters by Deborah Cadbury.
My paleontologist colleague works on the changes that occurred in […]

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I just looked up the price of Aperture, which is Apple’s software for photograph manipulation and adjustment.
On their US store, the cost of the product is $299.00 while on the Irish website, it costs €319.00. This converts to $459.02 at the moment. This makes this product 53% more expensive here in Ireland than […]

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University of Manchester researchers are ridding diabetic patients of the superbug MRSA - by treating their foot ulcers with maggots.
Professor Andrew Boulton and his team used green bottle fly larvae to treat 13 diabetic patients whose foot ulcers were contaminated with MRSA and found all but one were cured within a mean period of three […]

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