Here’s the story that nobody read that came out the day after rumors started flying about west-coast-usa to dublin flights. Short version: not happening anytime soon.
I was all expecting to see rei to open a new superstore on capel street, competing with millets, army surplus, etc, but alas, when I clicked through the link from the below image, it was but for an opening in Dublin, CA. 
EcoFriendly Upcycled Blueberry iMac Cat Bed by Wexlers on Etsy.
I’m most disturbed by the “mouse that still clicks…to play with”
So – my take on this is: Now, McDonalds (or equivalent) can hire an “Apprentice” burger flipper for £2.50 an hour. And you thought the irish “intern” scheme was bad…
So – you can bring your bike on the bus. Fair enough. But what if you forget about it? Well, “If it was less than 4 hours ago, please call the San Francisco 311 Customer Service Center. Otherwise, please call the San Francisco 311 Customer Service Center”. I can see an immediate way to cut the length of this sentence from 27 words to just 8 words! Can you guess what those words are? I’ll give you a hint…delete everything from “If” to “Otherwise”
I’m sure everyone is aware of the news of the world hacking scandal. I find it interesting that this is being prortrayed as sophisticated hacking, while what it acually appears to amount to is – dialing into people’s voicemail direct (this is easily done, I know in Ireland, you prefix the phone number with a 5, so the voicemail number for 085-1234567 is 085-5-1234567), and trying the default password (0000). One of the knee-jerk reactions is to – wait for it – restrict external access to voicemail. I’ve a better idea: When you get a phone, don’t allow voicemail to be setup until the user picks a password other than “0000″. Duh. What next? Removing internet connectivity for everyone because people’s computers become compromised when they choose the password “password”?
… sitting on the bus home from work, the shuttle has just passed a fairly new looking porsche (Carrera S), and the driver has visible ipod headphones leading from his head to the steering wheel…what I wonder is, if he spent that much on a car, did it not come with a stereo?
I drove the 42 miles to work last week 2 days. On Friday I observed a higher than usual police presence on the freeway and made the following observations:
1) If everybody is doing 70mph in a 65 zone, the highway patrol doesn’t care and will only pull over the 90mph nutters
2) As a corollary – when within sight of a highway patrol officer, black AMG Mercedes (top speed 200mph) seem incapable of going over 55mph, much to the frustration of everyone behind them.
Right, so after last month’s government proposal to force unemployed teachers to work to keep their benefits, at no cost to the schools (which are state funded anyways), we’re now seeing fianna failure doing the same thing for apprentices. You know, so that employers can get staff for free, instead of paying them. I remember many years ago, working for a small business that went through fás trainees every 2 months, the business owner thought it was great. Take on someone for 2 months, government pays them, and then send them off when their time was done and take on a new trainee (at no cost to the business). Somehow I don’t believe that that was the desired outcome of the scheme.