The Commissioners of Irish Lights announce that their last 9 remaining fog signals will no longer operate after today. Although we have been closing fog signals on a case by case basis for over 20 years, the 2010 Aids to Navigation (AtoN) Review re-confirmed that fog signals can no longer be considered as AtoN. via…
#DAB new Mux label on RTE Radio 1 only
don’t tell the banks #bailout
We have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!”, “I am homeless, the Government must house me!” and…
TV3 testcard 7 days before launch 20/9/1998
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time up for bertie [pic2]
Bertie bows out [pic1]
#wimax wifi warning
The First Radio Broadcast 24/12/1906
via http://www.wfn.org/story.html The first extended broadcast of the human voice was transmitted through the air on December 24, 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. A Canadian engineer, Reginald Fessenden, had worked for Thomas Edison in his New Jersey Laboratory, and later became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Fessenden was convinced that the “wireless telegraph”, which…