Clearwire are still taking my money months after I asked them to stop doing it.
Do not, I REPEAT do not get clearwire broadband.
Their service is lousy and their customer support is lousy and they have refused time and again to stop charging me for a service I am no longer using.
Do not get […]
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Archive for February, 2008
DO NOT GET CLEARWIRE BROADBAND
Posted in February 28th, 2008
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Who Earns What in RTÉ
Posted in February 28th, 2008
This is what the taxpayer pays these ten people at RTÉ (all of them earn more than what the president of America is paid):
1 Pat Kenny €849,1392. Gerry Ryan €558,9903. Marian Finucane €455,1904. Joe Duffy €367,8045. Ryan Turbidy €346,6676. Derek Mooney […]
I want to see this painting
Posted in February 28th, 2008
This is van Gogh’s starry night. I want to see this painting for real before I die.
Anybody got any painting they want to see before they die? Stick up a link if you have one.
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Buy your Irish Times tomorrow
Posted in February 27th, 2008
I have it on good authority that there is a magnificent article about an up-and-coming young Irish scientist in the Irish Times Tomorrow.
Oooooh, the excitement.
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Geek: Loud and Proud
Posted in February 26th, 2008
Increasingly of late I have heard people describing themselves as Geeks. This is not a description that is based on these people having low self-esteem issues and describing themselves as geeks in a defeatist way.
To the contrary.
This self-description is being made in a way that is proud and indeed subversive. For it is […]
The Lisbon Treaty
Posted in February 26th, 2008
First of all, I know nothing about the Lisbon treaty. I would normally be interested in this kind of thing, but my mind has been elsewhere of late. However, I was listening to Pat Kenny this morning and he had some people on it that were talking about it.
Essentially, the argument against the […]
Six days to Rio
Posted in February 25th, 2008
Going to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday to teach on an EMBO course. The temperature right now (early morning in Rio) is 23 degrees C. Time to dust off the flip flops.
Am leaving Ireland on Saturday afternoon late. Flying to Charles de Gaulle airport, just outside Paris. After a very short […]
Houses for sale
Posted in February 25th, 2008
Yesterday, I was looking at the Sunday Independent and there was an article in it about how first-time house buyers were once again coming into the market and picking up houses at bargain prices.
I wonder if this is true. The article quoted somebody, if I remember correctly, as saying that there were queues for […]
Internet service Proivider
Posted in February 22nd, 2008
This morning I changed my internet service provider from Clearwire to ChorusNTL. Clearwire were supposedly providing me with a 2Mb connection and ChorusNTL are providing me with a 1Mb connection speed, 80 digital channels and a landline (VOIP) telephone for the same money.
Why then is my new ChorusNTL connection approximately 4 times faster?
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Lovely food
Posted in February 22nd, 2008
So, back from Heidelberg, Germany. Talk was fine and was brought to dinner afterwards. One of the things about going for dinner abroad is that sometimes they recognise that you don’t speak the local lingo, they take pity on you and bring you a menu translated into English. So, this was one […]
