sin an saol agat!

What happens when mailing lists become too elitist ?

I was  part of a well known Linux mailing list in Ireland , but left it because of elitist attitudes.

The whole idea of a open mailing list is for discussion, but when the answer is “justfuckinggoogleit” it kind of defeats the purpose of the mailing list in the first place!

I just happen to read the public archive of the said mailing list, there was a discussion about JTAG, now not many people would have heard about JTAG unless you work on embedded systems or motherboard manufacturing, or just maybe you new to all this( it happens).

And what pray tell what the first answer  ?  well its wasn’t an explanation of  what JTAG is and does, it was simple you should have google’ed it before bothering us.

This kind of attitude is why the mailing list has only a handful of members anymore! and I am glad that I am not part of it anymore.

Can you imagine if the coder dojo  guy said, “What you don’t know what a ‘int’  or a ‘linked-list’ is, just ‘googlefuckinggoogleit’ it and get back to me..”For one thing the coder dojo would not be where it is today!

END OF RANT!

I joined amazon in their data centre operations dept a few months back. I’m really enjoying to challenge of working for a company this size and reach. The people are nice and easy to work with.  I am commuting to Dublin pretty much every other day… I don’t mind it to be honest but it can be quite draining long term, but I think its worth it.  If anyone has the opportunity to apply for a job within amazon they could go for it!

There is a referendum coming up in Ireland on the fiscal treaty, is it good for ireland ?

I think enshrining this sort of legislation in our Constitution will be bad for this country, as the only way  to remove it would be another referendum.The government is saying that we don’t need another bail out and this is only an insurance policy, but is it?Ireland is in a recession for 4 years now and there is no sign of it ending soon, voting yes for this treaty delay us getting back normality anytime soon.

Anyway  this is why I’m voting NO.

I have not updated this blog in ages, I suppose I better…

I’m still alive and paying bills

I now work in Dublin for  a big multinational,nice place and nice people.

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.

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 ?

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!

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 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 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 ?…