So, I read an interesting blurb about a book on i09 and they mentioned that it was available on Amazon for kindle. Sounded good to me so I toddled on over - only to find it wasn't available to me for region copyright reasons... Really? In this day and age ( Read more... )

In an effort to save money, Dublin City Council have farmed out waste management to a private company (Greyhound) who've made payment of bin charges that more painful by both insisting people pay in advance for bin pick-up and getting rid of the quarterly installment plan for the yearly standing charge, used by pensioners and the like ( Read more... )

Flash floods in Dublin. Fun times - and my roof is leaking in my bedroom. Nothing like 6 cm of rainfall to reveal the problems with your roof. Called my Landlord's agent and he wasn't exactly forthcoming about when their roofer was coming out to repair it. I'm tempted to just hire my own and send them the bill ( Read more... )

I hate the The X-Factor. Despise it, in fact. I think it's the most puerile piece of junk ever to be shown on terrestial TV, pipping even Big Brother to the post - and yet I can't seem to get away from it, even when I shut off the telly ( Read more... )

( WARNING: Irish politics )

News article in the Irish Times, by Miriam Lord, about the political debacle in Ireland over the last few days. I especially love the last two lines.

[Sarcasm] Some lovely feedback for Heaven and Earth. Warning, blood pressure alert.

( Put under a cut because she does a bit a of name calling, and I mention this in my reply. )

IRISH POLITICS

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a CEMENTGATE - and yes, there really was an actual gate involved. Insert ironic comment here. Why all the hullabaloo about a bank, you ask (if you're not from Ireland, that is ( Read more... )

...and why I sometimes feel this epic disconnect between the way I perceive Science Fiction, and the way the Science Fiction community perceives me:

I came across this epic story of fail through calapine's LJ and I get tired just thinking about it, but I'm still going to make this post because there seems to be a strangely prevalent idea going around, in ( Read more... )

So, today I found an email from Proinsias De Rossa (an Irish MEP) in my inbox and, as it had been ten months since I'd fired off my email to him, I had to scratch my head for a moment to remember what had annoyed me so much that I'd actually pressed the send button on my email ( Read more... )