Cuba? I mean CUBA?? How can Cuba have a smoking ban? I saw a documentary not so long ago on Cuba and everyone was smoking. It’s like a national pastime!! Ok, a tad unfair, only about 2,047,714 [32% 2001, 37% - 1995] adults smoke. But with about 25,000 new cases of lung cancer every month [...]
Jaypers. I now have 50 Gmail invites to give away. Anyone interested just mail me!
Been slow blogging recently, apologies, lack of time is my excuse. Tensions are building up between the US and Iran, it’s beginning to look likely that there will be some sort of strike against Iran in the not too distant future. The US may not have the balls to do it but might persuade Israel [...]
It’s amazing just how crazy some people are. A guy was jailed in Holland today for 15 years after shooting dead a teenage boy who threw a snowball at his car! “The victim, 13-year-old Sedar Soares, was in a group of children throwing snowballs at passers-by in a Rotterdam car park. When they hit a [...]
The government has appointed a team to access the risks [registration cheat] of a tsunami hitting Ireland. They are even looking into the feasibility of setting up an early warning system. The move seems to have been prompted by a British Minister telling Gay Mitchell that Ireland and GB had been hit by a tsunami [...]
It’s been a very good day for the people of Iraq who have voted in their first multi-party election for 50 odd years. As opposed as I am to the war I have to admit that perhaps something good has come from it. The Iraqi people themselves relished the chance to vote and despite attacks [...]
The criticism must be getting to them because the GAA are going to modify the experimental sin-bin rule. Sean Kelly is expected to announce today that players who get sent to the sin-bin can be replaced by a substitute whereas before no substitute was allowed and the teams had to play on without the sin-binned [...]
Eamon O’Cuiv has approved the hiring of three Irish-speaking language therapists for the Gaeltacht regions. One of the serious problems for the Irish language community is lack of support services in Irish, so this small step should be welcome news.
The military geek in me can’t help but say “coooooool!” The US military are deploying 18 “robots” in Iraq. The robots are basically the same as the type of tracked robot used for bomb disposal but armed with machine guns! The robot, equipped with four cameras, night-vision and zoom lenses, is currently guided by a [...]
Good report from WebSideStory via CNET on the growing market share of Firefox. “From the beginning of December through mid-January, 4.78 percent of Internet surfers … used the Mozilla Foundation’s FireFox browser, a gain of 0.88 percentage points. At the same time, IE usage declined 0.7 percent to 92.7 percent…”