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Update: First video is not showing in feed readers, please click through to the post to see it. Sorry. Before the last of the Presidential campaign debates, Barack Obama was in Ohio and was questioned by Joseph Wurzelbacher, since nicknamed “Joe the Plumber” by the US news channels. (It’s since been found out since that Joe [...]
Just read an interesting article on Wired.com. Apparently one of Hillary Clinton’s latest campaign ads uses a clip of Barack Obama that has been darkened to make his skin look blacker. Check it out for yourself in the videos below: Campaign Ad TV Debate Wired even took a screenshot from each vid and placed them side by side to [...]
Looks like Blognation may not be around much longer. There’s been rumours of non-payment of wages for months now, but finally Oliver Starr has had the guts to go public on all this. Oliver doesn’t think that his letter will stay up on Blognation for long, so he’s asking bloggers all round the [...]
About effing time! The Road Safety Authority announced that new rules will come into force for learner drivers from midnight on Monday 29th October. These new rules include: The provisional licence is being replaced by a learner permit to emphasise the fact that the holder is learning to drive. Existing provisional licences will continue in force until [...]
I was skimming through my news feeds today and spotted one “Man quizzed after dismembered body find“. A rush of adrenaline hit my heart and I was suddenly catapulted back to December 1999. Working in the Student’s Union at Paisley University one Friday evening, I picked up the phone when it rang. It was J, a [...]
Yup, and it’s Communications Minister Eamon Ryan yet again! Breakingnews.ie reports today that Minister Ryan has postponed ‘indefinitely‘ the effort to create a system of postcodes for Ireland. Quoting from Breakingnews: Two reports have already been compiled and an extensive public consultation process has been carried out. However, reports this morning say Minister Ryan has now ordered another [...]
Nokia have announced a battery recall for some BL-5C phone batteries manufactured between Dec 2005 and Nov 2006. In very rare cases the affected batteries could potentially experience over heating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Since so many people carry Nokia phones, I though it might help to post [...]
There have been a lot of articles in the press this week about the British Army presence finally being retired from Northern Ireland (NI) after 38 years. Readers of the blog will know that I now live near Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland, but I was born in and grew up in NI [...]
A few months ago I was in the car with my hubbie, heading down to Laois on the motorway. On Irish roads we see a lot of tailgaters, and I noticed about five cars traveling very close together. A car pulled out in front of this chain to overtake, but was traveling much [...]
News out this week that Northwest airlines and Southwest airlines in the US are now accepting PayPal for ticket purchases on their websites. While my immediate reaction was ‘Cool! An extra layer of security’, my next thought was ‘What happens to your insurance?’ You’re covered for issues with purchase on most items on your credit [...]
From an article on the BBC website today: There are calls for the European Union to ban the making of cars that can go at more than 101mph (162km/h). The proposal comes in a report to the European Parliament on EU plans for a law to curb CO2 emissions from cars. MEPs will vote on the plan this [...]
From El Reg: Greek cops to paintball rioting fans I skimmed this article in my RSS read and then marked all as read and then stopped, and I’d swear there was a lightbulb over my head! Why have police forces not considered this before? Paintballing rioters is a great idea for dispersal… Rubber Bullets and [...]
First, background: Over the last few years grannymar has been worried by the introduction of water charges/rates in Northern Ireland in 07/08. The plan was not to install water meters and she would have ended up being charged as much as a family of four! Today she sent a mail with some good [...]
From Breaking News: “The changes [to the law] mean people caught drink-driving will face a mandatory one-year ban, compared to the previous minimum of three months. Motorists who refuse to give a urine or blood sample will now face an automatic four-year ban, while drivers convicted of a second drink-driving offence will be put off the road [...]
I’m not sure how I missed this article last week, but according to Yahoo, ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) have started campaigning to get the Irish government to ban smoking in all cars. WTF??? They claim that it’s bad for children. Fair enough, but I don’t have kids – why should I be stopped from [...]
Apparently we were all wrong. The publicans don’t want compensation because of the ’stricter drink driving laws’ – hang on, when did the law get stricter, surely it’s simply being better enforced! – they want: “This proposal is not about direct monetary compensation for individual publicans across the board”, read a statement from the [...]
Well, that’s basically what they are saying! BreakingNews.ie has an article this morning entitled “Publicans ’seeking compensation for random breath-testing‘ “. I can’t believe it – the Vintners Association of Ireland are claiming that the new random breath testing measures introduced in July are causing losses in rural pubs so they want to be compensated. Why [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So it’s all over the news this morning that Ryanair has launched a takeover bid for Aer Lingus just over 1 week after it was floated. They’re offering a very reasonable markup on the current share price, and I have to admit, I’d take it if I was a shareholder. We mustn’t forget that [...]
before it’s even released… According to news sites, Sony will be releasing only 400,000 units of the PS3 in North America and 100,000 in Japan in November, with no more than 2 million in total by the end of 2006… And nothing at all in Europe until at least March 2007… And since there’s already a Xbox 360 [...]
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