I’m jetting off tomorrow morning for the snowy climes of Finland. Last year Santy let me down badly so this year I’ll be only a short drive from his gaff and will poison all his reindeers if he doesn’t bring me what I want!! Tomorrow night I’ll be meeting up with a bunch of expats [...]

… so in a few hours I shall hopefully be locked, hammered, buckled, in bits, wrecked, fluttered, plastered and maybe even somewhat inebriated! Considering it’s actually months since I was out for a few drinks I don’t think it’ll take much to do me in. If I’m in a half decent state tomorrow i’ll respond [...]

From Citizens Information: “Every household, business or institution in Ireland with a television or equipment capable of receiving a television signal (using an aerial, satellite dish, cable or other means) must have a television licence”. The funding from TV licences is used to support RTÉ 1, RTE 2, Radio 1, RnaG, TG4, Lyric FM & [...]

Would you believe with all this talk over the years and especially in recent times about the Greenhouse effect, climate change, melting ice caps and all that stuff I have never given it even a minutes thought. “After all who will suffer?” thought I (note: that thought only took 4 seconds), “a few fucking polar [...]

Here’s a mobile application worth trying out … emoze – A PUSH email solution for everyone! One of the things I missed a lot when I switched from an i-mode Sony Ericsson back to a Nokia was the lack of push email. That problem is now solved thanks to emoze. It’s free and it works [...]

The football folks north of the border still aren’t accepting the FIFA ruling that players born in Northern Ireland can turn out for the Republic. The Unionists even wanted to pass a motion in Stormont condemming FIFA’s proposal! *yawn* Why can’t an Irish citizen born in the North play for their national team? Was Maik [...]

Edit: I should point out that this was a test of a mobile app called Shozu and the only picture I had available was of the weighing scales in our jacks. Don’t ask. Anyway, nice app Shozu, but you can only post pictures or videos so hardly something I’ll use too often considering the rates [...]

This is definitely one to check out … Mobile GMaps is a FREE application that displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices. MGMaps can connect to a GPS receiver over bluetooth or use [...]

One of my childhood heroes the great Evel Knievel has sadly died after a long illness! He escaped death on countless occasions during his life time of daredevil stunt riding but couldn’t dodge this one. I think I still have my Evel Knievel motor bike set in the attic at home. Evel in action: