Archives for November, 2006
Good post from Donncha this morning on the importance of checking if you are still on the Electoral Register (this really only applies to my Irish readers). Local County Councils have removed 300,000 voters from the register! So if no-one has called to your house in the last month or two, then you only have [...]
I was reading a post over on Bill’s Blog this morning about RyanAir which linked to an interesting article outlining their operating philosophy and how it compares to the budget airlines in the US (which it was originally modeled after). It reminded me of a picture that we took in Luton Airport back in Autumn 2002 [...]
Holy Focaccia! David Gest’s favourite phrase (used in place of similar swearwords) on this year’s “I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!” is catching on with all the celebrities, I wonder how long it will be until I start hearing it in the real world?? For your perusal this evening, in case you didn’t [...]
Conor O’Neill posted about Roos and Hadyn’s blog entitled One Breast Less this week, so I popped over for a nosy. They are posting about Roos’ experience with breast cancer, it has been prevalent in her family and she’s now dealing with it herself. I took time out and read all the posts [...]
Thanks to a great tip-off from the wonderful girls over at beaut.ie, I ordered my free silver jewelry from www.silverjewelryclub.com – like the girls, I was a little skeptical at first, but Aphrodite did a good bit of research into the company in question and it was all above board – though it beats me [...]
I’ve had a lot of hits over the past few days on the blog from people looking for the video of Dean Gaffney’s Bush Tucker Trial as they seem to have missed the best piece of television to date this year! So I’ve sourced it on youtube.com and here is it for your viewing [...]
So Minister for Transport Martin Cullen stated today that he plans to reduce the wait for driving tests in Ireland to 8 weeks by this time next year. Yeah right! Even if he does give the Road Safety Authority €10 million to help clear the backlog there’s no way they’re going to manage it – unless they [...]
Confession: I’m a reality TV addict, I’ll watch pretty much anything that is going! For the past three years, November has not only meant the beginning of winter for me, time to wear two pairs of socks and wrap up warm against the wind, but it’s time for the annual TV trip to Australia for “I’m [...]
It’s an issue that has been flaring up again in the past month, fueled by the court case of a Yorkshire teaching assistant – she refused to remove her full-face veil at work (in the presence of male teachers), was fired, took the case to court and then the British politicians weighed in on the [...]
With Xmas coming, people are starting to buy their Christmas presents and more and more of these are being bought online. If you’re anything like me, then you try to get the best value for money and I’ll certainly be doing some of my shopping on ebay this year. One thing that bothers me about [...]
Just thinking of something that came up in the pub after the Blogging the Election Conference when someone asked me where I was from: ‘Northern Ireland originally.’ I replied. The questioner immediately tried to engage me into a conversation on Northern Irish politics and see what my opinions were. ‘I’d rather not discuss that.’ I continued. ‘Why?’ came back [...]
I got this by e-mail today – it’s rare that I receive things that I immediately want to share but this is so cool and it’s one I’d never heard before! How Smart Is Your Right Foot? TRY THIS NOW! This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least [...]
One of the reasons that I hadn’t blogged over the past few weeks (apart from being sick) was that I had got bogged down and behind in all my surfing. I read a ton of blogs and news sites via NewsGator every day and if I don’t make time every day I soon fall [...]
Normal service has been resumed… The BBC ran an article last month with the above title which I found pretty interesting. The article was based on a survey by Neilsen/Net Ratings entitled the 21st Century UK Digital Consumer. We often see stories running in the news about new ‘technological’ words that have become mainstream and [...]
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