this TV’s tuner dies October 24th – Long live the TV

Digital Switch Over (DSO) or Analogue Switch Off (ASO) is happening October 24th 2012 at 10am. 11 days to go. Then this TV “tuner” will die, well it wont die but over the air signals from legal sources¹ will not be exciting its Belling-Lee² connector after that date. This TV was lovingly carried around the…

south africa miners & the ANC

ANC press release http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?id=9867 no mention of the police shooting dead 34 strikers no mention of the invoking of ‘doctrine of common purpose’ apartheid era law where 270 strikers were charged with the murder of the 34 the police had gunned down. (charges later dropped by the police because the lunacy of such a law…

wage cuts for competitiveness sake is simply a lie

Competitiveness is ranked globally on 111 indicators. One of those indicators is wages. The Central banks focus in yesterday’s Q4/12 report on wage restraint is completely bogus to have it focus (headline grabber from exec summary) on one item, wage cost.  Wage cost accounts for 2% of the overall measurement of competitiveness. Ireland ranks 27th in a…

The real reason Dr. Reilly added 15 primary care centres: EXPLAINED

Regina Doherty TD (Fine Gael) explains Dr. Reilly’s reason for adding the extra 15 centres (with no fixed criteria) to the first list of 20.  The reason is: developers can’t profit from health in deprived areas Speaking on RTE’s Today with Pat Kenny on Thursday morning Regina Doherty TD said (use cue point number 1 below once…