Brian Greene

Since at least Thursday evening www.garda.ie has been down. I called the Garda press office Saturday and they were unaware as their default home page is a deep link on the same site. Yes deep links work and i was able to ping it, just someone or thing stole the gardai home page on the www. They are now aware and a garda webmaster should fix it this afternoon. Just as well there is not a plume arriving from Sellafield, us locked in doors with only garda website for info, arpanet / internet was designed for such reasons, when the radio spectrum is electromagnetic pulsed, this is where & why we need a regular web service from an garda etc.

from breakingnews.ie The family of a worker who was crushed to death by a truck today called for health and safety legislation to be fully enforced.

Justin Foley, from Rush in North Dublin, was killed in December 2002 when a truck backed into him during a loading operation.

At a protest outside the Health and Safety Authority headquarters in Dublin, his sister, Lauren, said no prosecutions had been taken against any of the companies involved.

“I don’t see the point in having regulations if you’re not going to enforce them because it’s no deterrent to companies to keep safety standards,” she said.

The inquest into the 21-year-old’s death found there were no safety procedures in place and the HSA had not been notified until a day afterwards.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

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as Michele Neylon has told me over and over, once it published its out there. RTE reported on the killing on Monday night at 11pm. they said and Google News has it “The shooting took place on waste ground in the Kilbarrack area at around 11pm last night.” I passed this location 50 minutes before it happened. But it wasn’t Killbarrack nor was it waste ground.

RTE revised the text to correctly read “open ground near St Donagh’s Road in Donaghmede”. BTW the second story of two for the ‘kilbarrack shooting’ search is titled “Heroin graveyard”. the shooting is not guns but needles, and the Kilbarrack is in Sutton / Bayside not Kilbarrack Dublin 5.

yesterday I watched Mary Harney texting on Nokia 3310(?) she was taking a question at the time across the floor , or a rebuttal to a question answer exchange. First off its bad manners, secondly texting celebs to ask them to stand as parachute candidates for the PDs while sitting in the Irish Parliament should be banned. Where is ding dong rory o’h when this kind of behaviour is happening.

Having watched the PD conference live on TV last weekend, I first noticed that PDs and YPDs are in bad need of more public speaking practice (aren’t we all) but also, the amount of mobiles on silent (not switched off) at the lectern was amazing. A quick search of the web and you could have scored points. See a speaker, id name, google for mobile number, ring them, again & again all the way through their talk, firstly the vibrate in their pocket will distract them and secondly, mother natures way of radiating radiation all over the speaker system will count for 10 points. 20 points for live TV.

“Switch off your mobiles” means off NOT silent.
for whom the bell tolls? it tolls for thee

anyone know the guidelines for TDs and mobile in the Dail? anyone from Windmill Lane TV productions care to comment?

I had this idea for ringtone jingles or a paid version of ringtone adverts – as my current ringtone since xmas day last year is a podcast of mine,,,, but as always Im not alone in my thinking

trendwatching.com wrote in ‘03

Remember the ’80s? When brands like Nike and Lacoste introduced the brilliant idea (for them) of making customers pay to display their logos? Ever since, human branding has seen extremes like tattooed logos on body parts, and brand icons shaved onto heads. Now, with the current wildfire-like spread of mobile/cell phones, expect audio to be added to people’s branding expressions. Enter JINGLE CASTING. New generation phones sport features like ‘16-voice Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) synthesizers’, meaning, in plain English, that jingles and ring tones are reproduced with previously unattain-able sound quality. So what’s to stop corporations and organizations from persuading consumers to download their company jingles, commercials or political cries for change? Using cell phones to broadcast commercials, tunes and jingles could well be the next big thing in the multi-billion euro ring tone industry. TRENDWATCHING.COM can’t wait to hear “Always Coca-Cola!” being JINGLE CAST from a million hand-helds, handies, cell-phones, mobiles, and keitais

You drink your coffee and I sip my tea
And we’re sitting here playing so cool, thinking “What will be, will be”
But it’s getting kind of late now
Oh I wonder if you’ll stay now, stay now, stay now, stay now
Or will you just politely say goodnight?

photo from www.fureys.ie

“its easy being green”

FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE (#9)
Which is the Greener Gender?
Branching Out (building tree houses)
It Pays to Recycle

The former government minister, Jim McDaid, has announced that he is not to run in the next general election, he was convicted in October of dangerous driving and drunken driving at Naas District Court in Co Kildare and given a two year driving ban. Driving up the wrong side of a dual carrageway McDaid was more than 3 times over the limit with 267 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood in his sample.

He joins North Dublin TD GV Wright who announced his intent not to run in January 2006, GV finished a 2 year ban last november, GV publicly admitted knocking down a woman pedestrian, nurse Anne Butler while having been driving after drinking, then providing 67 microgrammes per 100 millilitres in a breath sample.

Did these two drunk driving TDs not think it suitable to resign from public life when convicted (or sooner) rather than hang on till the public get their next chance to pass judgement on the characters that represent them.

A shame they left it till now to bow out, coz they have sunk deeper in peoples expectations of TDs who hang on for the pensions and perks.

Leviathan Podcast from feb ‘06 kindly hosted by http://richarddelevan.blogspot.com/ has now relocated at http://leviathan.libsyn.org/

I will be speaking on the Enviro programme on Near FM 101.6 fm at 11:32am. In studio is me and local Ind. Tom Brennan and on the phone is Bernard Durkan FG for a discussion on the FG energy doc, ShutSellafield.com and the North Fringe, hosted by John Haughton. This is a repeat of last nights live broadcast. Live Stream MP3 or OGG

update: archive mp3

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