A blue Work Life Balance

Is there a subliminal message in having a Work Life Balance day and then having it on the 29th of February? Is this a corporate conspiracy?

For some reason a blue potato seems wrong. Why I do not know, but it does...

Fine Stuff?

Initially, I thought EUR1.68 billion was a nice bit of money until I realised that the same people make that much profit in a single quarter. I wonder what the EU will do with the money?

scary

It is interesting and possible a little worrying how certain items can attract news coverage around the world. From New York to India to New Zealand, there is much interest in the Irish entry for the Eurovision this year. I can't imagine what Dustin will be like with all this coverage.

Planets of the sexes!

I heard rumours recently that a certain book was being read late at night in the shadowy darkness of the Storm cinema near a wooden haven. This surprised me as reading and shadowy darkness do not generally work well together. The Gardai at Henry street were unable to comment on the matter. Apparently, their GPS navigator was broken and they could not find the area in question.

Initially, I dismissed the rumour as nonsense. However, after some investigating I was able to discover that a certain individual was stalking the stars in the area. Locals were shocked and appalled. "I am shocked and appalled" said one local. And so were the stars, it has emerged the individual was more interested in the planets than the stars, and in particular Mars and Venus than anything else.

After communications with NASA, I was able to get the individual to disclose some of his results. A detailed analysis is still in progress but already we can see a lot about the planets. We can see that Venus is wider around the waste than Mars, that Mars is able to withstand the cold a lot more than Venus, and while Mars is prone to eccentricity, Venus is much more prone to go ecliptic.

sporty weekend ahead.

The Irish Womens Rugby team are playing this evening against Scotland. Hopefully they will do well. Unfortunately, the game is on at 6pm which gives people very little chance to get to the game after work. It is a pity the game is not on a Sunday or even a precursor to the big game on Saturday, as might encourage more interest. It is also a pity that there is such poor coverage about the Womens' games, trying to get the result is very difficult.

There should be a good hurling game on Sunday in Limerick at 2.00pm. Port Omna (Gaillimh) are playing Luachna – Caislean Laighnigh (Tiobraid Árann) in the semi finals of the club championship, while Biorra (Uíbh Fhailí) are playing Cu Chullian (Aontroim) in Clones at same time.

What does the word Irish mean?

Is it just a synonym for a job poorly done? Recently, I have heard a number of people expressing frustration with the way something is done by using the expression "that's a bit Irish isn't it?". Generally, this reference occurs in relation to something done by the Irish government or by Irish companies. For example, when the NRA proposed the Nenagh bypass, people cried out for it to be made a dual carriage way. However, in their wisdom the NRA made it a single carriage way and now not long after been built they are ripping up parts of it to make it a dual carriage way.

One could argue that there are lots of good things that happen in the country, such as the achieving peace in the north, getting the smoking ban through, and putting in place plastic bag levy. Some Irish businesses have even redefined how Irish people live such as Ryanair in how they have transformed air travel in Europe. Is is possible that there are more bad things than good things, and has this resulted in the sad connotation that people have added to being Irish? Or are we a nation of begrudgers who do not recognise good things?

random comments on battle in a heavy weight.

It is strange when you are alerted to a place where a killing occurred. Especially, when you are just after arriving to a place. You would think that taxi drivers would not want to scare off potential future passengers.

However, I would recommend the Cottage restaurant in Warrington for its delicious Indian food. I had a Chicken Tikka Pathia which was scrumptuous. The service initially was excellent and then collapsed into non-existency which was a pity. I'd still go back for the food, and also to give the waiters a second chance.

It is strange that the English towns, that I have visited that they, seem deserted on certain nights mid week. While Tuesday night was student night, that is all I saw around students. Wednesday night was vaccuous, so strange. Even the McDonalds was closed at 10 oclock in the town centre.

Infoworld discuss some of the uses of GPS in mobile phones that are on display in the mobile world congress in Barcelona (previously known as the 3gsm congress). They mention Yahoo's idea of getting alerts when your friends come into town, which sounds a little big brother like. However, it does make me wonder how soon will a GPS dating service occur, if one does not already exist? People text a number in a pub and get alerted to possible dates in that pub.

Congrats and non rants.

Congrats to Ronan on his photography site for Travel, Landscape and Event Photography. Some excellent pictures in it.

Also congrats to the latest Doc.

Haven't written in ages, just been very busy. I had so many things that I wanted to give out about, hypocracy of politicians and ineptness of politicians, GAA and the situation with the Cork players, Sport and Feminism and excellence, and the silliness of fluid restrictions on flights.