Brian Greene

Happy Birthday Apple – from Wired Gallery, it all started for me on one of these apples in ‘82 when I joined secondary school. The school had one computer, so nothing much changed, but the IDA got apple in in 1980 when apple was 3. Now at 30 apple employs 1400+ at its plant. I think the Dept. of Edu. did a deal, and the schools got a free computer. Now Tesco have sorted out that little problem for FF/PD Govt. I never owned an apple but I am suffering the halo effect from having an ipod. my next PC will be apple intel one of those nice ones that was released last week! with unix under the hood.

I’m looking for shout in’s to my ‘1 year on’ podcast to be cut wednesday night 29/3. MP3 files can be sent to radio_AT_wxtc.net or CommentCast to 076 60 20 927 ext. 108 thanks in advance. and thanks for listening to the show

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i have 2 blogs, this one is wordpress the other is blogger controlled. using statcounter.com for a week now and watching logs close for a week now and google loves the blogger made blog. it less likes the wp one, i wonder why?. is it the atom feed? is it my content? is it that google owns blogger?

Swords Co. Dublin residents can dial a Rebel and get a Pizza

BHG is astonished no one spotted these fake ATM’s that are going up everywhere

well it was Atlantic that was outa stock. but the F connectors in B&Q are the worlds worst. They are made by master plug in China under ISO 9022 quality system. So whats so bad about them, well the screw end is too short to get a good connection and too short to easily work on in cold wet out door environments. Secondly the the inner opening was so narrow centre core coaxial could tip it if you were not careful.

Why do DIY stores stock so many Belling-Lee connectors (the bog standard TV connector) when NTL and Satellite boxes are all gone F type in the past 8-10 years? do they stock too little of the F’s or are they stocked but in constant demand. I tend to panic buy, and it helps, for you never now when you’ll have to make some friend / neighbour / relation a patch lead or fix their TV at 10pm because you are the only person who understands the term ‘Coax me solder’ which is a deliberate misinterpretation of ’solder my coax’ …. you know who you are.

While on the theme of shopping and only days pasts the ending of the ‘1987 Groceries Order’ where prices are to naturally lower (?) Nivea Face Creme cost per litre is €44. Tip to Nivea makers, don’t do bio fuels.

back in Oct 2004 a Green Party councillor in Wicklow had her tape recorder confiscated for recording proceedings in the chamber of the council.

from the Examiner October 12, 2004: Yesterday’s meeting was temporarily suspended when a member of the public gallery alerted officials that one councillor was recording the proceedings. Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca was forced to hand over the tape recorder despite insisting that she had it for her own protection.

She said at a previous meeting another member had called her a “pathological liar, scumbag and b***h” and the chairman had not intervened to stop the abuse or seek a retraction. “I had a very unpleasant experience here before. It was for my own protection.” she said.

but now it seems the councils can broadcast proceedings, Fingal Co Co are doing just that see .here.

not the most riveting TV perhaps City TV might take a look at this as filler content. Unless a Wicklow punch up re match is broadcast! but a progression none the same. it would appear the Fingal copyright allows free distribution of the sites content for “…bona fide personal use and also for the recopying of all or any of the contents of the web site for genuine and bona fide information dissemination purposes…” would that include a recode from wmv to MP4 to iPod. test test test. so now we see where our bin tax €7.50 a lift is being spent.

for the 100,000 plus members of the polish community in Ireland here are some Satellite TV channels available in Ireland. for the millions of Irish in Europe – RTE and Sky did a deal, and you can not see RTE free to air on Satellite.

4 Fun TV Hot Bird 4
Edusat Hot Bird 1
ITV Hot Bird 1
Mango 24 Hot Bird 1
Podróze TV Hot Bird 6
Polonia 1 Hot Bird 1 & 6
Polsat Zdrowie i urodaHot Bird 6
Tele 5 Hot Bird 1
TV Biznes Hot Bird 4
TV Puls Hot Bird 6
TVN Hot Bird 1 [Pal]
TVN Gra Hot Bird 1
Viva Polska Hot Bird 6
TV TRWAM Astra 2C
TVP 3 Regionalna Astra 2C
TV Polonia Astra 2C Hot Bird 1 Eutelsat W3A
TVP Kultura Astra 2C Hot Bird 1 Eutelsat W3A

Hot Bird 13° East
Astra 2C 19° East
Eutelsat W3A 7° East

31st March 2006 8pm – €15/10 conc. with id
Where:
The Castle Inn,
Lord Edward St,
Dublin 2 (Opp. Christ Church Cathedral)

Will be there:
Rónán Ó Snodaigh and members of Kíla
The Sick and Indigent Song Club and DJ ’til late

Since the mid 1990’s the privatisation of water services has been championed as the solution to delivering water to 1.1 billion people without access to potable water in developing countries. Privatisation of the service has failed to bring water to over 200,000 people in the impoverished city of El Alto, Bolivia where people living on $2 a day are being charged $500 for a basic water connection.
more details www.lasc.ie