RTÉ w i d e s c r e e n

RTE has a aertel page that explains wide screen, on pg 192. [they should have used the unused pg 169 aka 16:9 ah well] what I don’t get is WHY cant I get RTE on Digital Satellite for free, I have a licence, I have had one since 1993, I don’t have $ky, dont want…

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things that worry me

that the Irish Justice Dept. thinks Extraordinary Renditions are songs on ‘Your A Star’. ER has no sponsor on RTE1 on sundays. [George Lee where are you to explain the down turn in Ad spend] iTunes music store does not stock Teenage Kicks by the Undertones, what would John Peel say. the Bush administration. [i…

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DX pedition to Leitrim

Last weekend I retreated to Leitrim away from QRN (electrical noise) for a SWL (shortwave listeners) dx-pedition. It was to also double as a Star Gazing weekend but cloud cover did in any chance off deep space or stars, as did the just larger than half moon in the South West sky. so the trusty…

New Podcast Released

show eleven is now out. click here 2 hear SHOW NOTES Intro.. [01:06] Christmas Greetings Phone Calls [03:33] Kevin Kennedy TomRaftery.com Sinead Murnane doop.ie peter walsh doop.ie Louis Le Rouskey Spiff from doop.ie EleanorMcEvoy.net Noreen bowden – www.Emigrant.ie Simon Maher – PhantomFM.com Donal Greene – dojo.ie voice call me +353(0)76 670 0551 [05:49] Podsafe Music…

If Santa used UPS

Im tracking my new video iPod as UPS wing it to me, it left the UK DERBY, at 21:48 on the 20th, headed to KOELN (COLOGNE), DE (is this a EU hub for UPS) and I will follow it as it tries to land before 25th 🙂 If we could track Santa like this the…

DRI Launch recording

It’s a week today since Digital Rights Ireland Launched, me being who I am and DRI being what it is, I decided to ask permission to release a recording of the launch event, in case the ringsend secret service missed anything. I supplied a deep link to recording online and made two separate attempts to…

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w800i the drawbacks

1. It has crashed 4 times in 10 days; usually between camera and calls; 2. Data (podcasts, songs) placed on the Duo, not always makes it into the TOC of the player; 3. RDS display stopped working, I cant find the setting to restart it; 4. head set sucks at being comfortable, slides and sticks…

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