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A slight cold which I picked up while gallivanting on a rugby weekend in Paris has left me at home recuperating, primarily by way of watching the Winter Olympics and Buffy re-runs, while eating airport-bought Fois Gras and Chocolate. Ah, the decadence.
Hello there,Simon is very much away from his computer this weekend. However, he has left me, a kind of robot facsimile, to tell you about Digital Rights Ireland's drive to raise some funds to do good things. Our suggested subscription rate is €10 per month.
We're running backward through the episodes in Hugh's Adventures. Though it is the third episode I've put up in this way, this is Episode Two, a sunny summer holiday back garden romp called Caveman Hugh. As usual it is licenced under the generic Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence.
Never mind all that law drivel. Go immediately to Fustar and read part one of his three part interview with Eugene Lambert of Wanderly Wagon fame. He's one of the creators of the Ireland you live in now.
A little while ago, I said that if the Irish Times wasn't going to ask follow up questions on the announced-over-Christmas plan to bring in an Automatic Number Plate Recognition system for use by the Gardai, then tiresome obsessives would have to do it for them. Sure enough, here are the questions put down by the Labour Party on the topic, along with the Minister's answer. 20.
I see the Minister has said formally what alert readers will know already- that he intends to implement the Law Reform Commission's recommendation to introduce a DNA database, but that he won't be implementing their safeguards to protect citizen's privacy.
Kiesha Poiro has a new piece on Tuppenceworth. It is an open letter to Michael Stipe, who has sorted out all her life's problems in a single song. And assisted her in buying a pretzel.
Irish Seal It isn't often you're thinking about podcasting and stumble on a reference to your own grandfather. But that's what happened today when I was bumped towards Richard Develan's site to listen to his trial "Saturday View"-style podcast, Sunday Brunch. I'd listened to it, and thought it a little too slow, a little too safe and not focused enough on Ireland, but not a bad start.
Back in October, I wrote to the Courts Service asking for them to justify the decision to restrict access to the Four Courts buildings. Mostly this kind of request is filed in the folder for the letters written in purple crayon. But I cited Section 18 of the FOI Acts, which has the happy effect of placing a statutory duty on the state body to respond to my request.
Hello all,A cheery change from grumbling about the Four Courts broke through last week when Tuppenceworth, at close to no notice, had its first get together in real life. Special thanks to Fergal, Mary, Emma and their friends for turning up and making sure that I didn't stare out the window in the Library Bar all by myself.
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