I launched a free to list events guide on Tuesday night in the Set Theatre.
It’s called http://www.eventsinkilkenny.com
About 40 People turned out, The Mayor of kilkenny David Fitzgerald said a few words about how it would be beneficial for kilkenny to have this sort of website.
I am at the galway film featival, such good films,a russian film, weather station, perfect senses. I also when to the frameworks shorts, some really good live action shorts this year. I voluntered for the galway arts festival and ended up meeting killian muphy after his play mistermen,Very good, but dark.
What does it mean to be ipv6 enabled?
Today is world ipv6 day where ipv6 is enabled on sites across the world.So is just enabling ipv6 one your website enough?
Take yahoo, their website is enabled but there mail service is not. So although some services of major isp’s are ipv6 enabled things like mail and dns servers are not.
So it doesn’t reflect all services thats could be enabled for ipv6, so is the is a true test of ipv6?
Maybe for ipv6 day 2 will these services be enabled.
The independent is running a story about TD’s employing their own family members in government jobs. I’m not going to get annoyed but if true, then nothing really has changed has it ?
Eamon ryan was elected leader of the green party on the 27 May 2011, succeeding John Gormley. The competition was from Malcom Noonan and Phil Kearney. To be honest Malcom should have got the job as Eamon Ryan was a member of the last government in which the greens played their part for the crippling debt of this country, only under severe pressure did they call a halt to their time in government. They then got rightly hammered in the election and lost all seats.
The green party days are numbered within government for a very long time. Eamon ryan talked about rebuilding trust. It will take me a very long time to trust the green party, if ever!
An Irish company “www.prizeclub.ie” sends you a text.
Heres the scam, you click on a link that redirects you to a website address, All seems innocent at first you answer a question, On the website you are not told that it will cost anything and as you are answering via a website address everything looks is fine, but it’s not. They send you a message back to your phone which then cost 2 euro.
I was scammed by this and ended up answering a few more that I should without thinking about it, I must say it’s great social engineering scam.
I am going to be emailing comreg and o2 in relation to this, as I feel that these companies who present seemly great offer are scamming by people into thinking it is free until it’s too late.
At least with betting companies or the lotto you know before hand how much it is going to cost you to play.
I wonder did I over use the word scam ?
It would seem that the government is going to bail out the banks once again.
This is the reason why Fianna Fail is not in power. The Irish people voted so that we would not have to keep bailing out the banks, but the new government is breaking it’s first promise and they are going to be sinking 24 Billion of borrowed money into them.
Here’s my 2 cents worth.
The PIIGS as we are called (Portugal,Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are all struggling with national debt, for us it’s bank debt turned into National sovereign debt.
Everyone and their granny know that ireland cannot pay back all the money owed by us to the ECB, our biggest bond holder to date. So what to do?
Well If I were ECB trying to stop a massive bailout of 4 huge countries, I would allow the smaller of the countries take all the pain (Ireland) as it would be the least costly.
After this, the hope would be that the European economy would recover sufficiently and that the other countries get there national debt in order.
So what would happen in a few years if other members of the PIIGS club do not need a bailout ? well, I would slowly let Ireland default on some of the debt, the markets hopefully will be in a better condition at that time and as it’s the ECB’s money they will write all the money down as a bad loan, Ireland will be free of the debt burden over time, slow enough as to not rock the boat.
This is my thoughts on the whole mess!
It would seem that Irish politicians are immune to Prosecution.
John O’Donoghue or Ivor Callely have yet to be fine or prosecuted for their illegal expense claims.
In england: Ex-Labour MP Jim Devine sentenced to 16 months in prison for expenses fraud.
Why can we not send our politicians to prison ?
I created a website called http://www.fiannafailsucks.com
it is just a bit of fun, its so easy to take the piss out of finna fail, the comments use redis for storing comments is amazingly fast even hosted on a vps server. i hope i get to use redis for other things at a later stage.
I wonder what the outcome of this is going to be?
1. ICTU calls off their march, and says this is the best for the country.
2. ICTU still goes ahead with the march, and petitions the IMF/EU that there must be a better way…
We’ll know soon I suppose.
I stood outside the townhall in Kilkenny from 3pm to 6pm on Tuesday. I collected 100 signatures for this petition, what was really strange to me is that only about 1 in 4 people who I asked signed the petition for “Brian Cowen to resign and call a General election.” Some people responded with “What good will it do ?” or “No, I won’t”, “who’s else is going to run the country”. These are all valid question.
Has it come down to the fact that people just don’t care what happens in Ireland any more?
It’s a sad day in Ireland when we stand idle and do absolutely nothing, It’s no wonder the British ruled us for so long. We are just all “sheep” following the next sheep to the slaughter!
I do hope that this country wakes the fuck up and does something about it.
Online petitions are a waste of time as most politicians can’t even use a computer.
EVERYONE WHO IS UNEMPLOYED AND OUT OF WORK SHOULD BE MARCHING ON THE STREETS EVERYDAY UNTIL THIS GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.
Fianna Fail won’t get into government next term, but they will be back in sooner rather than later, I could bet on it, and it will be a shameless country that will put them back there.
I now feel worse!
I was for a long time thinking of finishing my degree course which I started a few years back. I obtained a Certificate with the Waterford Institute of technology, so I figured that this would be a natural place to finish it. I went about contacting the Adult education Centre in WIT as I wanted to do this part time. I got the number of the guy over the course, I rang this number and talked to him about completing the course as a part time, I sent my C.V to him they already had the results of my Certificate. He announced that I have all the requirement except one. JAVA, he said, as I don’t have any experience with Java that I cannot do this course. I argued my point that as I have experience with other languages (php, C, python etc) that I should be able to catch up and finished in this area. He just repeated that I did not have any JAVA experience and so I would not be able to complete this course.
I find it hard to believe that after completing a course with the WIT and now I wanted to finish my degree. I would need to first do a Course in JAVA to be able to complete this. I asked if there was any way I could prove that I can do the Java module. he said he would send me out some material, great I was thinking, it’s a start. I waited for the information to arrive in the post, It came yesterday. The information was relating to the modules that I could be doing, Java progamming, and java GUI programming. Great so how was this suppose to help me prove that I can catch up with java ?
I feel so let down with the WIT, My next course of action (no pun intented) is to write a letter of complaint about this to the Board of WIT. I wonder has anyone else come up against this ?
Having emailed a few politicians lately about different thing I have not got a response from any of them. It is a sad state of affairs.
The 2 recent politicians I email ; Eamon Ryan and Pat Rabbit, and I never even got an acknowledgement of my email.
I suppose it could have ended up as spam or it got read and deleted, but who know when they can even stick on an auto responder on they email address.
No wonder people are fed up with Irish politics!
I recently went it alone, and now I’m trying to start my own business InHouseIT.ie ,providing(linux) IT support. I finished up in Blacknight in July after a year and a bit working there.
From my conversations on the phone to different (blacknight) clients I figured out that there is a market of this Linux stuff 
So 2 months on and its really going slow, Who knew it would be this hard to start a business
I think my problem is that I’m not a business head and so I’m learning the hard way about starting a business.
To be continued….
I had the chance to see Robert Fisk at the Kilkenny arts festival, I must say Robert is a wealth of information and say one of the very few people who have a rare in-depth knowledge of Middle east politics.
Speaking for well over 1 and a half hours, I never got bored. His talk was on how the media can distort the facts of the story to meet the Corporate culture of the company, how journalists were becoming less impartial to the facts and just re hashing news from others.
Having this situation within the media corrupts the whole reason as to the nature of news reporting. If journalists forget why they are journalist and what their job roles intail then we can just forget about getting the real news.
He also talked about the his time covering the middle east and the people he met while on the job. As a history buff I already knew most of the points he was making about the middle east and how we are just repeating the event over and over again.
You would just have to look at the history of Afghanistan to see , that, what NATO is doing is a futile attempt to bring our western democracy to the region, maybe what they need is to figure it out for themselves as all our “western” interference is only making the situation worse.
He also talked about Iraq and the mess we ” The west” have made that country, He said that it will more than likely go back to some sort of dictatorship after all the western soldiers are pulled out.
The main point that he was trying to make is that we don’t really understand the middle east and the tribal instinct of the cultures based there.
I will have to buy his book “The great war for civilisation” It’s a pity I did not buy it on the night and get his autograph.
I was looking for a hotel listing and it appears that 1800 hotels has been force into “bankruptcy proceedings to restructure its debt”.
It seems the recession is rumbling on, Is this to to with the banks not giving credit to already established businesses ?…
I was listening to newstalk last night (the show was a repeat). David Cochrane was being interviewed, the topic was to do with a post that was made on the site.
David explained that he was contacted by the Gardai in relation to a post, he also went on to say that the Gardai can track down anyone who posts quite easy.
It’s easy enough to track down people if all the information is given, username and the details of the posters contact details (if any), also the IP address of the computer that access the site.
What is the law when then website is hosting in another country ? is Irish law or foreign laws ? (As politics is hosted in the US).
My advice if making a questionable post or transaction is to use an anonymous proxy service( google for it).
Or even the TOR network can be used.
The Mozilla plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275/
Also some addional sofware will need to be installed.
http://www.torproject.org/easy-download.html.en
NEWS FLASH!!!!!
The Moriarty Tribunal solicitors need jobs , switches focus to the banking crisis.
This to me will be the news headlines sooner or later.
Investigating the business transactions of Esat Digfone 20 odd years ago is a dead duck and a massive was of tax payers money!
I used my DIY skills a few weeks ago, I took it upon my self to tile a kitchen floor.
Here’s some picture of it:
I went to see this last night and all I can say is what a load of rubbish! If anyone can say that they did not cringe and laugh in horror at the embarrassment of this film, I would be surprised!
The film was trying to be something different than the normal Irish “depressing” films that have being made over the years. The comedy style was suppose to be quirky and “blue brothers” , but it fails miserable at this. The montage scenes are just to fill space and pad the film out, it doesn’t work.
I wonder who paid for this review?, I could not disagree more with this review. This is not a 4 star film, its a 1 star at best, I give them credit for trying something new.
And also what the hell is this : “Like a particularly inspired Father Ted episode, Zonad is a comic gem. From Ireland.” What head shop stuff was this guy smoking when he watch the film ?
And another review , would all these people not get paid if they gave the film a bad review.
NEWS FLASH !!!! the film is the “worse movie ever”.
I’m all for supporting Irish films and I have so far went to all of them that were release this year, but I felt that the media hype around this film is misplaced as i felt that after the film. I want my money back.
