Archive for April, 2006
Friday, April 28th, 2006
Flirt FM is adding the wonderful Imeall podcast to its schedule. Conn is, of course, a former UCG FM/Rag Week Radio participant, so in a sense he's coming home.
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
With the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising in the air - last Monday being Easter Monday, while the actual anniversary is 24th April, next Monday - there's been quite a bit of coverage and debate in the Irish and British media. Much controversy has surrounded the Fianna Fáil government ...
Posted in Political activism | Comments Off on Let us arise
Friday, April 21st, 2006
In response to the massive scam in Dublin earlier this week:Deposits on rented residential properties should be payable to the Residential Tenancies Board, and not to individual landlords, Labour’s Eamon Gilmore has said.
Posted in Political activism | Comments Off on Simple yet effective
Sunday, April 16th, 2006
Sascha notes that internet penetration does not correlate closely with population density, and asks what it does correlate with in this context.
Dredging up memories of my previous career, my sense is that population density has some impact, but so too does the variance in density. That is, two of the ...
Posted in Computing Technology | Comments Off on Interrogating population density
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Reclaimed turfOriginally uploaded by stunt_penguin.Looks like Eyre Square has finally been reopened. I - and many others - sometimes felt it would never happen, so I'm happy the first thing tourists seen when they arrive into town won't be railings and a construction site any more.
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Monday, April 10th, 2006
From the news of the strange department, Martin Sheen is to become an undergrad at my Alma Mater in Galway.
Posted in Trivia | Comments Off on Will he attend West Wing viewing parties?