any one for chess

dutch hackers (whitehats?) break into Nedap voting machines Live on television in Holland. [rte report] Dr. Minister Roche, the children of Ireland could use these voting machine as chess teaching machines, would you consider taking them out of expensive storage and touring the country with them (yes you can come along with these machines for…

Near 101.6 FM interview Brian Greene

I was interviewed live on Near FM yesterday re podcasting and the representative body we are setting up. The show is called ‘Majority World’ here is a link to the interview

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Met Warning Issued 23/11/2005 13:00:00

Severe Weather Warning for Snow: Frequent snow showers are likely togive accumulations of between 3 and 8 cm below 250 metres during theperiod 1200 hours Thursday to 2400 hours Friday in counties Donegal,Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and parts of Cavan. Strong to gale forceNortherly winds will occur during the same period, giving blizzardconditions at times and…

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Bob Marley is back with a new song

Bob Marley is back with a new song Slogans, It is believed Marley recorded the song in a Miami bedroom in 1979. The tapes were kept at Marley’s mother’s house and last year the reggae legend’s sons Stephen and Ziggy revisited the acoustic demo. In 2005, Stephen overdubbed the tracks with other instruments, including guitar…

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clever dicks in google

Colm Keena writes in the Irish Times The filings indicate the multinational’s effective tax rate has dropped from 39 per cent to 31 per cent, indicating it is saving approximately ?100 million a year in taxes via its Irish business. “This is primarily because proportionately more of our earnings in 2005 compared to 2004 are…

more podcasts than radio stations by Paddy’s day ’06

[BHG’s prediction addiction]as of today’s date (19/11/2005)25,000 Podcasts and counting on iTunes 19,921 are be tracked by PodNova.com 10,276 submitted to podcastalley.com numbers numbers, Im looking at a magic number 36,000, the number of radio stations worldwide (according to ‘I am an oil tanker‘ by Fi Glover). 5000 of these stations broadcast / stream on…

podcasting representative body

I have set up a list at webnet.ie called opencast@webnet.ie The function of the list is to discuss the setting up of a representative body for Podcasters in Ireland. The list is open for anyone to join and discuss this topic. The need exists to safe guard the activity of podcasters regards licencing, legal and…