Here is a link to what seems to be the main dropping off point on the Fianna Fail / Damien Blake / Strawberry Media / Joe Rospars fiasco. If you are on Twitter, take a look at #rospars for all the immediate responses. My own comments on the post are likely to get lost in a deluge of other responses,...

BBC reports that Microsoft is disbanded the development team responsible for the well-known Flight Simulator product. I've had brief encounters with this product, and have never been overly impressed by the whole experience. Maybe I'm just not geeky enough to appreciate it? I won't miss it, but I'm ...

"Millions miss Everton's winning goal", but at least young Toffee Dan Gosling didn't! It seems an automated system at the transmission facility cut to adverts at the crucial moment in extra-time. I suppose some technician was so engrossed in the the game that he forgot to switch the system off once ...

First of all, a disclaimer: I am not a serial killer! I know because I checked, here. It can sometimes be hard to tell the difference between serial killer and a technology enthusiast (I don't like the words 'nerd' or 'geek' - they just don't have any, well, style, to them). I don't often indulge my...

According to BreakingNews.IE (full story here), an anonymous tip-off from a member of the Irish public has lead to the closure of an Australian based network of child-pornography websites. While the primary focus of hotline.ie is to combat child pornography, other forms of illegal content and activi...

So, former Progressive Democrat Minister, Tom Parlon, is calling for interference in the free market! Now that he holds the quarter-million-euro-a-year role of Director General of the Cowboy Construction Industry Federation, he is urging the government to assist first-time buyers with some sort of s...

This isn't the first time I've blogged about xkcd.com, but it had dropped off my radar for a while, and I had an enjoyable half hour this morning catching up on a couple of month's worth of their excellent cartoon strips....

It seems to be a universal rite of passage - kids at sporting events shouting obscenities for the benefit of the television cameras. I was watching a few minutes of a jurling match this afternoon: Waterford v IT Limerick, when I chanced to hear a couple of young lads shouting their attention seeking...

When I saw this, I thought "OMG", with a capital O, M and G. A taser with a built-in MP3 player! What has the world come to ! I suppose, if the shock didn't fully incapacitate an attacker, you could always make them listen to a << insert crap artist here >> album?...