Author Archive for simon

RTE and porn

Writes simon on May 15th, 2008

Read More: sport

Checking through the RTE sports news I was surprised to see this on the side of the page.
In case you can’t read it.
Shelbourne manager Dermot Keely talks to Séamus Leonard about promotion hopes, striker Anthony Flood and the porn potential of Max Cream..
Now if there was ever an article that just jumped out and […]

Leinster are just jealous

Writes simon on May 13th, 2008

Read More: sport

From RTE
Leinster assistant coach David Knox has described the appointment of Declan Kidney as Irish Rugby coach, as ‘a big mistake’.
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In an interview with the Irish Independent, Australian coach Knox is very critical of the rugby played by Kidney’s Munster, insisting their triumphs come at the expense of any style or flair.
‘The Munster people think […]

Where RTE gets it’s news from

Writes simon on May 12th, 2008

Read More: News

From sporting life

Martin O’Neill has vowed to make Aston Villa an even more formidable force this summer after narrowly missing out on an automatic UEFA Cup spot.
Villa finished sixth in the Barclays Premier League despite operating with the smallest squad in the division.
They will now face opposition from either Northern Ireland, Finland or Denmark in […]

Science in Ireland is not something that gets much coverage compared to the Arts that fill much of the Daily News papers and get supplements in the papers every week. Some people would put this down to Ireland not being a big science nation while being the nation of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats we seen […]

Dossing Times Fantasy Football

Writes simon on May 12th, 2008

Read More: blogging

The premier league is over and with it Fantasy Football. We here at the Dossing Times ran a league. We left it open by mistake so many non-blog readers joined it. Anyway out of the 257 people in the league. I won. Alas there is no prize. This year I came 20th out of the […]

Joys of Glasgow.

Writes simon on May 7th, 2008

Read More: life

A mate of mine relayed this story of Glasgow life to me.

Mate Says me and another guy from the flats were chatting in the garden and these wee steeks [ed he is from the North]  came in to play football (yes, our garden is kind of a municiple ned social ground) see the guy tossed […]

The Carbon Footprint Blog Challange.

Writes simon on May 7th, 2008

Read More: Enviroment

Now Me and CK have taken the Carbon Footprint test of Change.ie. Now between us I am the more right wing of the two therefore in many peoples eyes the most obviously evil towards the environment. But in terms of carbon Footprint I kick his ass. I am on 2.11 Tonnes per year and he […]

This is just wrong

Writes simon on May 6th, 2008

Read More: Cooking

A patent was filed in 2004 for…….. Alcoholic beverages derived from animal extract
Yes people here is the abstract

A method for producing a beverage, comprising the steps of providing an aqueous animal extract, fermenting said aqueous animal extract with lactic acid bacteria, and fermenting the product of lactic acid bacteria fermentation with yeast fermentation, to produce […]

.So everyone is trying to be all enviromental now. So the question is which is better to microwave or boil spuds? The natural lovers out there will say boiling because it is natural. Well those people also dislike E-numbers so lets not talk about them.
Water is a great substance for heating because it has a […]

The Problem with Patents

Writes simon on May 1st, 2008

Read More: Random

I have talked before about the need for Ireland to come strong in Patented research. But sometimes you can just take a patent to far.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for […]