Month: September 2005

I used to podcatch on a XDAii, then the screen cracked 🙁 Never owning an iPod (never even used one) I got a 1GB usb stick with MP3 player, DVR 2 .wav and FM radio (76-108Mhz). (Great buy BTW) Now my problem was, I’m so mobile, laptop wifi car home work linux XP etc. I…

Why has this place name changed? You wont save language by force. Like they couldn’t force me to learn Irish. Cromwell forced many changes and many we have tried to roll back. But whether its forcing a motorway through heritage or a mobile mast beside a school or redeveloping Dun Laoghaire Baths or re naming…

Are you fed up getting calls to switch your telco provider? if so call your telephone provider (ie. 1901 for eircom) and ask them to block third party providers calls, its a free service. If third parties still call, ring the data protection commision on (01) 874 85 44 and report the third party. I…

does the Apple IPod nano sound too much like Creative Zen Nano? Na, no. Nano derived from the Greek word for small means ten to the minus ninth power, or one billionth. Perhaps its the billion bit Jobs is thinking of, not a billion IPods but tracks sold… Its going to be a White Christmas,…

back when I was younger (to quote SLF) I used to get my shoes in a very large shoe store in Talbot Street Dublin 1. The realy cool thing for a 5 year old was the shoe-fitting x-ray machine. Climb up 3 rubber coated steps, insert your right foot and left in two holes on…

Shaun Woodward is Minister for Water Charges in Northern Ireland Why is he in the news? yesterday he delayed the introduction of the hated double tax – the water charges. In an interview with Shaun Woodward, BBC reporter Mark Davenport commented “… he [Woodward] seems determined to push ahead with the introduction of water charges,…

Mr Lenihan also earlier defended himself for falling asleep during a telephone link to TV3’s Ireland AM morning programme. He was due to go live from his hotel bedroom at the Fianna F�il think-in in Co Cavan when technicians heard him snoring loudly down the line and pulled the item. “I just slept through the…