Archive for August, 2007

Friday Feeling

Writes ck on August 10th, 2007

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There is a scene in an episode of ‘Scrubs’, the episode having beeing filled with Journey music, where Turk tells JD that he is getting to like Journey. JD having returned from the jukebox, tells him he will enjoy the next 23 songs then!

This song is newly popular again having played over the closing scene [...]

The problem with Aer Lingus Privatization

Writes simon on August 10th, 2007

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After the debacle of Eircom you would think that the government would have realized the problem with privatization. Much of the flack over the privatisation of Eircom center on the fact that it failed. This was attributed to the fact that it was privatised not to the actually factors that made it fail. The [...]

Be Kind, Rewind

Writes ck on August 9th, 2007

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I think I’ll stick my neck out and speculate that this movie will be one of the best of the year. I’m motivated by blind faith as well as the great cast (Jack Black, Mos Def), the credible man behind the lens (Michael Gondry director of ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’), the potential of [...]

Optimash Prime!

Writes ck on August 8th, 2007

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Mr. Potato Head does Transformers! This may be the funniest thing I have ever seen. I want one now!

The wonderful world of Frisbee Part I

Writes simon on August 7th, 2007

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Recently me and some of my work mates who I shall refer to as Dino, Hero, God and Well Good have been exploring the wonderful world of Frisbee. Well Good had a Frisbee (or should we say sports disk as the term Frisbee is copyrighted) that was left over from a conference he had [...]

Skinny Sweets

Writes ck on August 7th, 2007

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Today my colleague, or drain on the energy of the office as I prefer to call her, returned to the office after lunch and on offering me sweets momentarily clawed her way back my the rankings of people I can tolerate for more than 15 minutes at a time. Imagine my disgust when the sweets [...]

Socialist wanting to control the blogosphere

Writes simon on August 7th, 2007

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Looks like the some of the Daily Kos (the big US democrats blog) brigade want to start a Blog union with benefits and code of ethics etc. Other then the fact that bloggers are in-essence self-employed more IBEC then SIPTU these people are taking blogging far to seriously. So who will want to [...]

Remember what we have forgot

Writes simon on August 6th, 2007

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Over on Orga Sinn Fein’s blog they have released details of
The Shoot to Kill 25th Anniversary Committee has launched a new website. This site has been launched as part of a series of events and activity to commemorate the events of 1982; when 6 unarmed men were murdered by the RUC.

Now I know this is [...]

Ron Paul tops military spending?

Writes simon on August 6th, 2007

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Interesting analysis of the donations from the military for US candidates for the various parties primaries. Ron Paul the republican libertarian candidate tops followed by Obama and Clinton. With Rommy and Rudy Giuliani towards the end.If you wondering who he is. Here is clips from the debates

Dossing Times DVD of the Month

Writes ck on August 5th, 2007

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I don’t know, in fact I doubt it very much, that anyone noticed there was no DVD for July. Put simply I didn’t see anything I liked, or at the very least felt worthy of describing on the blog. August has brought a movie I have wanted to see for a long time.

DVD for [...]