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I'm sure that the DRI people will be all over this, but I just thought that people might be interested to know that an objection to the Data Retention Directive was lodged today by the Irish Government with the European Court of Justice. Today was the last possible day to lodge such an objection. The contents of that objection aren't clear yet.
Elmer Fudd Gets His Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Bystander Looks On Aghast.
I stood in the shop and looked at all the HD TVs showing HD channels. Now I can give you the full, in-depth story. High Definition Television is a way of almost, but not quite, making the picture on a giant flat screen TV (€2000- €infinite) match the quality of the picture on a normal telly (from €75).
For reasons too complicated to go into, I spent a whole day last month in the National Library, scrolling through microfilms of 1846 editions of The Kilkenny Journal and Leinster Commercial And Literary Advertisor. The paper, as best as I could make out, was an organ of the Catholic middle classes, and a staunchly pro-Repeal one (Daniel O’Connell was never referred to by name, only as “The Liberator???).
Two and a half weeks in, and it’s been a cracker of a World Cup. Not only has the football been excellent, but (at least as important from the point of view of an armchair fan like myself) televisual entertainment of the highest order has been on offer. Adrian Chiles of the BBC continues to delight, some of his best moments coming after last night’s bad-tempered Portugal – Netherlands game.
From the Sunday Tribune:HUNDREDS of top-level civil service jobs are to be opened up to the public in an effort to bring fresh blood into what the Department of Finance admits is "an ageing civil service". Now, I know more than a little about this. I was a serving Executive Officer for some time and faced resistance to being promoted.
The Sunday papers are, as expected, full of the recent internal warfare in the Progressive Democrats. What interested me most was the degree to which the PDs apply their privatised world view to the management of their party. The PDs are currently at about 3% of the vote, but the PD mindset is a remarkably pervasive one.
Al Alvarez’s slim volume The Writer's Voice is a book I’d highly recommend to anyone who’s ever spent any time thinking about writing as a craft. In it he considers the nature of an artistic “voice??? which he distinguishes, correctly in my view, from “style???. Style is often artificial and brittle, and can easily degenerate into mannerism.
Sarah Byam has been a longstanding contributor to tuppenceworth, and one of its most prolific. However, as some may have noticed, she has been a bit quiet of late. In her new essay, Breaking My Silence, she talks about the depression that floored her and the people who helped her stay alive.
Not much peotry here in recent times, for which I apologise. My excuses are threefold. Firstly the weather.
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