Art, media, opinion and ideas
Daragh is keeping his nose to the grindstone over at his new blog. The Government, responding to the periodic handwringing over the state of our electoral Roll, seems to be saying in uncredited briefings that they might fix the problem up by holding onto the enumerators hired for the Census. Daragh points out the reasons why this (a) can't happen(b) isn't a proper response anyway.
An experiment for this nice sunny weekend. Tuppenceworth Podcast Prototype: El Greco at the National Gallery of IrelandThe address for the Art Podcast feed, which will automatically deliver you any subsequent episodes in this series is http://feeds. feedburner.
Mr Potato of Planet Potato has two questions he'd like this blog to answer. 1. "Where do I find all the cute single lawyers?"2.
Sometime contributor to tuppenceworth, Daragh O'Brien, has started his own blog. He opens up his shutters with a discussion of the inaccuracies in the Electoral Roll with the benefit of his professional expertise in Data Quality Management. More of the same will be a welcome addition to the world.
The front page of the Motoring supplement of today's Irish Times has an article on speed cameras. At the end it casually mentions that Gardaí expect that the cameras will record 11 million plates a month. Now, I know we've got road problems, but I don't think that limits the recording of cars to just those actually speeding.
Launched amid great fanfare, promised as the greatest cultural event of our young century, Poetry Monday went flat after a single installment. What can I say? It was a bank holiday. There was snooker on.
Emma Pearson is a long-time contributor to tuppenceworth, both under her own name and as her alter ego Fluffy Dutton. So I'm delighted to let you all know about her exhibition in The Gallery, The Mill Centre, Celbridge. All the details are below.
Vastly nerdy question, I know. Nonetheless, I would be very grateful if people could tell me what software they use to collect or read RSS feeds, and whether that software is -Mac or PC-Free or paid for-Proprietary or Open Source. And, if you'd like to say why you went for your final choice, and the good and bad points of that choice as well, life would be just peachy.
Some time ago, I wrote an article on Northern Ireland. It is the only time, I think, that I've dealt directly with the topic. I'd only go back to it if something had changed, either in my mind or in the world.
Four Seasons Hotel Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Late this afternoon, the last in my most recent series of exams will draw to a close. I may well repair to the room pictured here to collect myself, drink a cup of tea and gaze, spaced, at the flowers.
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