Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-08

Uncategorized 8 August 2010 0 Comments

Apparently Three Ireland are planning to do something by Friday 13th which will make iPhone work properly on their network. # The amusing thing about how the left is treating the milk story is how they conveniently forget the massive Labour overspend. # Anyone any tips on the value of USD against Euro between now [...]

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Change is good

this blog 2 August 2010 0 Comments

Changing web hosting provider is never pretty, especially when they all seem to want to offer nonsensical services as product differentiation.  As a result, what seemed like a comedy ‘it may take 2 weeks to get the site up and running again’  post is pretty close to reality. The idea at the moment is to [...]

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Switching from iPhone to HTC Desire

gadgets,technology 11 July 2010 1 Comment

So, all things being well, tomorrow I will have an HTC Desire mobile phone instead of my much loved and lamented iPhone 3GS.  The iPhone went missing, and stock was not available at my insurer, so I opted to switch to the Desire.  On paper, the Desire is a better phone than iPhone, but the [...]

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Racism and hating children

Europe,Racism,commerce and trade,politics 10 March 2010 0 Comments

Next week begins European Week Against Racism, a week when organisations opposed to racism host events to highlight racial prejudice and discrimination, and to celebrate the existence of societies where discrimination on the colour of a person’s skin or their ethnicity is considered unacceptable. Normally, I mark the week by working much harder on promoting [...]

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Nabidana podcast coming soon

podcast,politics 27 February 2010 0 Comments

I’m watching the rugby today, and as Ireland’s most obnoxiously proud England supporter, despite having been born in Londonderry, brought up in Co. Down and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution,(whose former head coach is now the Ulster Rugby coach), I am not allowed out of the house as I refuse to remove my [...]

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Two lessons in politics and government from Ireland

Uncategorized 8 February 2010 0 Comments

Irlande, Nul Points First the mildly funny story.  It emerged this morning that since 2003, more than 18,000 people cases of serious road traffic offences have been brought to court in Ireland and convicted of.  Of those, it would appear that just over 700 of those cases were ever given penalty points, although points were [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07

tweets 7 February 2010 0 Comments

Nadine Dorries has finally lost it. Again. # Heading into a nicely complex meeting. Hope to emerge alive. # Just emerged from the meeting. Frustrating. Very frustrating. # Off to the Irish premiere of Invictus. Just has to better Escape to Victory to be greatest sport film ever. # Hadn’t bet on the amount of [...]

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Day 2 and 3: The Diary of Stephen Nelson Bickerstaffe, Northern Ireland Office Hillsborough Unit

Diplomacy,Hoons,politics,stupidity 28 January 2010 0 Comments

Tuesday, 26 December 2009 4.15am Castle woken by intrusion alarm, as Lord Alderdice tries to ram-raid his way through the security cordon in a JCB.  Eventually talked down by David Forde, and was immediately tazered by angry PSNI officers.  Eventually claimed that Iain Dale had made him do it.

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Two morons walk into Hillsborough Castle…

Diplomacy,Hoons,Northern Ireland,politics 25 January 2010 0 Comments

The title should presage a joke, but, to be honest, the impact of the idiot leaders of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom flying to Hillsborough today was nothing short of sickening, as each sought to use the situation in Northern Ireland to deflect attention from their mutually failing regimes each side of [...]

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Man with no authority makes two contradictory orders shocker

Uncategorized 12 January 2010 0 Comments

My political colleagues in the UK concerned about the encroaching power of the state (Caroline Spelman’s concerns about Local Authorities’ proposed right to enter a premises for tax and rates reckoning, for example)  may wish to pay attention to the predations of Ireland’s minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keeffe TD. Schools in Ireland are [...]

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