Year: 2004

If the country’s telecommunications regulator allows National Roaming then the need for any more new mast sites will be massively reduced. National Roaming is being considered by ComReg after years of competition in the market place has failed to delivered lower costs to users in a country with the most profitable phone users, according to…

Karlin, Bernie, Kirby to name a few, sites down or no posts in ages, if you know where there gone let me know, I’ve just started flirting with a common blog tool, but for years I’ve scribbled on home spun tools & before that I wrote plaintext essays before bloging was named. I enjoy reading…

Early on Saturday 64 postal workers and managers in Dublin’s main mail centre were suspended in an ongoing row over changes to working practices and on Saturday evening a further 128 workers were suspended for refusing to carry out what the company says are normal practices. The company is now asking people in Dublin City…

[cnn] Anger over the war in Iraq remained sharp on the first anniversary of the U.S.-led conflict Saturday as protesters took to the streets across much of the globe, urging an end to the coalition occupation which some blamed for international terrorism. —I missed the Dublin march due to work commitments but one year on…

power: possession of controlling influenceflux: the amount of radiant energy passing through a unit areadensity: the ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume it occupies in naming this site it was a toss up between PFD & variable frequency orchestra (VFO) the meaning here for PFD is about the movement of power…

Weekend DART services during April & May have been suspended from Howth to Howth Junction to allow for the upgrade of the overhead lines. This is on top of an expected 9 months of weekend closures from June

The FCC received hundreds of complaints about the Golden Globes broadcast after Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, said, “This is really, really, f—— brilliant.”The enforcement bureau said last October that Bono’s comment was not indecent or obscene because he did not use the word to describe a sexual act. “The…

IT MUST BE TRUE About 55 million newspapers are being sold in the United States each day, an 11-percent drop since 1990, according to the report. The decline is attributed to falling interest among Americans as well as to the public’s diminishing trust in the wake of highly publicized scandals like last year’s admission by…

well paddy’s day is over, and I survived it alcohol free! a much needed realignment of my satellite dish was needed, with winds of 70MPH due friday (perhaps gusts and perhaps its saturday) it will get an early test, oh to be able to have my 1M dish at ground level, alas it must swing…