RTE notes that new Census of Population figures published today have ordained six new large towns. Any Cork people who were confused last year by the city’s official decrease in population will not be surprised by the fact that three of the “new major towns” are within 25mins drive from Cork City. By now, most [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 RTE mentions that Bertie is embarrassed by the fact that we, “the laughing stock of europe”, don’t yet use electronic voting, while France get their election results in two hours, electronically. Two hours is very impressive, and that’s also how long the French voters were left queuing. This is before we even consider the usability [...]
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Slashdot links to these survey results which show a 24.1% usage rate of Firefox in Europe. I’m happy to see that Ireland emerges slightly above average, with a rate of 24.9%, and experiencing a hefty increase. Slovenia grabs gold, with a score of 44.5%, followed by Finland on 41.3%. For some perspective – the UK [...]
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 I mentioned in my last post that very few people these days take the time to give their views on how things are shaping up in the world of online gaming. In the days of Geocities and Gibworld, the internet was hopping in time with its myriad of animated ‘mail me’ gifs. Dozens of clan [...]
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Saturday, October 14, 2006 At last I have escaped from the chaos of Dublin’s south inner city. No more will I be lulled to sleep by the constant sound of rockets being fired at some guy’s head. I knew the place was a zoo from day one, but, with Halloween approaching, the area really lives up to its local [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006 Situated halfway between Blarney and Mallow, on the back road, the little Cork village of Bweeng doesn’t have much to offer. Its still a few years off meriting a Wikipedia entry, and currently its claim to fame is a comical name, and the close proximity to Stuake (pronounced Stwick). If you haven’t heard of Bweeng [...]
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As a stressed-out narrowbander I have always used Aertel on a daily basis due to the lack of images and bloat. Now they hog your bandwidth and embarrass you at work with these stupid loud video ads of old men singing that take up half the screen. Entirely defeats the purpose of using Aertel online.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 This will make no sense to any of you who don’t know what a “shock rifle” is. The staff behind Ireland’s UT2K4 gaming community has let the stress get to them. A new system has been introduced, claiming to “a benevolent dictatorship similar to the very effective situation at Boards.ie”. For some people, mainly those [...]
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006 I was examining the junk mails that made it through the spam filter yesterday, wondering about the lengths that spammers have to go to in order to dodge Spam Assassin, and how many people actually respond to advertisements for V!agr$Aa. One of the more common characteristics of spam emails is a variety of colours in [...]
And yes I do understand how unlikely the Cork double would be, since it will surely be third time lucky for Kerry, right? Just back from a drizzly Páirc an Chrócaigh where Cork defeated Waterford in a very close game. Hogan stand has a report here which agrees with Aertel’s score of 1-16 to 1-15… [...]