Well, I got an anonymous comment left on my blog last week pointing to another blog.
So, I goes along to the other blog.
Stunned I was.
Somebody is not happy in DCU.
I don’t know who it is, so there is no point in asking me.  However, if you want to read the discontented notes of an Irish […]

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I have been using Firefox 3 beta for some time now and it is the best web browser by far.  Yesterday Firefox 3.0 - the official version - became available and right now they are trying to break the Guinness book of records for the most downloaded software ever on the day of release.  So, […]

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So, I see that IBM Cloud Computing and Business Objects (part of SAP) have announced a bunch of jobs in Dublin in the IT research area.
This is a bit of great news in a week of grim news.  The reason this is so fantastic is that these jobs put real knowledge into the country.  Cloud […]

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I see the BBC is listing a bunch of options for the EU after the Irish NO vote.  One of them, bizzarely is that the Irish would get additional opt-out protocols inserted in the treaty with guarantees on, among other things, abortion.
There was a cast-iron guarantee concerning article 40.3.3 written into Lisbon.  Are the BBC […]

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It looks like the NO vote will win today and the EU reform treaty will not be ratified by Ireland.
Scare tactics
My opinion on this is that this has been a success for the politics of the scare tactic and a tremendous success for George Bush’s mouthpiece in Ireland.  The EU project has hit a major […]

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Well, according to Paddy Power, the Lisbon Treaty will make it through.  The YES camp are odds-on favourites, with the NO camp being at 2-1.
The interesting one is the margin of victory.  The shortest odds are for a victory between 50.01-54%.  The odds here are 4-7, that is to say if you bet 7 Euro, […]

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I have just read this report and it is exactly what I have been ranting on this blog about for some time.  Society often does things that seem sensible or that complies with the accepted wisdom, but there might be little or no evidence that this is in fact a good thing to do.  In […]

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If I run YouTube on my laptop, the battery runs down very, very quickly.  This is because the medium that YouTube use to deliver their videos is very computationally intensive and consequently, requires the processor to run at full speed and this makes the fan start up and the entire thing requires energy.
My laptop will […]

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