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Actually it was a little less dramatic than that. Just before the I.T. Carlow campus it appear that the fuel pump in my car gave up the ghost. Engine turns, nothing burns. Ironically about half an hour before the engine stopped working I was looking at the economy gauge and it was showing 44.5mpg. “The [...]

It’s enough to drive you to drink. A friend bought a new laptop for his son recently. Nothing special about the laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220 but quite nice nonetheless as a surfing, mail and watching DVD’s machine. They bought in mid April and it went kaput 5 days ago so he asked me to [...]

Come to an end. So goes the saying at least. Things are going to get a little flaky here soon as far as this domain name is concerned. After almost one year on the dole jobseekers benefit, the birth of number one son, a whole entire host of other bits and pieces (some good, some [...]

Then read what Microsoft’s Windows Boss thinks. It’s not good. Stephen Sinofsky who is the man in charge of developement of Windows has as much as admitted that it’s a piece of crap. Choice quotes are: The Vista Ready logo program required drivers available on 1/30. I think we had had reasonable coverage, but quality [...]

This happened in Denmark recently. As for those folks in West Cork/East Kerry who have these things practically in their garden, then I think this would give you grounds for appeal. Context: A Vestas Windmill has exploded and broken in half outside of the small village Halling in eastern Jutland. The police maintained a safety [...]

Back a few days ago there was an accident in Florida when a brand new BMW M5 drove off the end of an elevated runway. The car sailed through the air for about 200ft before hitting a tree and splitting in two. The driver was 18 and it was his own car. I just checked [...]

Ireland is snowed under. Not with the white fluffy stuff that falls from the sky but the powdery kind that typically hails from South America. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t mention Katy French here but I can’t help it as no matter where you look there she is. It is her family that [...]

I was going to write a post on this. It is incredible that as one of the smallest countries in Europe by population, we have the highest paid political leader in the democratic world. But I came across this entry on Michael Nugents blog which says it much better than I could. Fianna Fail’s Fifty [...]