Changes?
I'm considering moving to wordpress.com or when / if i get a job out of my "Software Development" formerly "Computer Applications" degree to pursue having my blog on a hosted site, i'll be definitely be staying away from a .ie domain, I never want to deal with the IEDR c*%$s again shudder.

Eircom/Broadband
I see Babcock and Brown have allegedly come out and admitted that yes Broadband in Ireland is the worst in europe. According to figures there are 400 dsl enabled exhanges in Ireland, whereas there are some 1100 exchanges in the country. Maybe we will see some progress in this area with the takeover of Eircom by B&B, and maybe I can finally get (decent) Broadband in Ballygarvan.

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Shannon Anti War protesters
I can't believe those anti-war protesters got of the hook for damaging the plane. The arrogance of these people annoys me, it seems to me that these people are well funded and have too much time on their hands. The movement of military traffic through Shannnon provides much needed jobs. Lets be honest without these flights Shannon would loose out on millions of euro and countless jobs would be lost. It's obvious that these people don't depend on Shannon to provide for their familes, so fuck off up back up the tree you came from.

Writely
Writely is an online word processor by a company called Upstartle. Upstartle is now part of the mighty google family. After been on the waiting list for ages i went in search of a place to get an invitation and finally found this site http://pnut.kicks-ass.org/gsheet/. It takes about a day for them to get back to you. I started using it straight way and I have to say it's extremely good as it allows you to share and collaborate documents online. It also allows you to make .pdf or ms word versions to your local hard drive if you chose to . It's well worth checking out if you're interested.

Middle East
A couple of things spring to mind over the current tensions in the middle east,
1. Israel does whatever it wants to do and America will stand by it and Britain to a lesser extent. We all know civialians die in wars but when an occupying force takes control of an area are they not obliged to provide humanitarian assistance to the civialians so far from news coverage (and i've watched a lot of news coverage) i fail to see israel taking responsibilities, which goes to further fuel the already hostile relations israel has with its Arab neighbours. But then again it seems israel doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks about them.
2. The U.N is powerless.
3. Current U.S administration is guthless and afraid to stand up to Israel, is it two afraid of the jewish lobby in America? it would seem that way.

Laziness
I tell you it's a disease so it is, I'm not working at the moment and boy have I gotten into a rut, today I got out of bed at half one, granted I didn't go to bed until three as i was reading "Debt of Honour" by the great Tom Clancy. Btw the Israeli goverment could do with reading "The Sum of All Fears" they might learn a thing or two or maybe not.

Mick McCarthy

It's been brilliant to see Mick working for the bbc during the world cup, his witty and insight full commentry and punditry has been a joy to watch and listen to. You'll always be my captain fantastic Mick

World Cup

The world cup is well under way and having watched every game so far, the most impressive team has to be Italy, followed by argentina. What has impressed me is the vast improvement in quality of all teams in the tournament so far with the possible exception of Toga. The emergence of African teams has been good to see, they are no longer the wipping boys of the tournament. Over the next two world cups you can see that the quality of these teams will increase further. It does concern me that while we see these countries as been third world countries, there is heavy investment in football in these countries by external sources we in Ireland may well fall behind in the interantional pecking order, it's clear to me that our domestic structure needs to be looked at and invested in so as to encourage younger palyers and improve the pool of players that we can select at national level from our domestic league, this isn't going to happen overnight and will take years but it needs to be done, the bullet needs to be bit on restructuring the game in ireland.

Charles Haughey

No doubt the passing of Charles Haughey will bring up all the Moriarty Tribunal shenanigans and rightly so, he may well have ended his life in jail if the full truth of what he got up to came out. He had the potential to become one of Irelands greatest leaders but his penchant for wealth and power was his downfall.

Roy Keane

Roy Keane retired yesterday. Amongst the excitement of the world cup few will have paid any attention to it. We all have our opinion of him, hero or villian. My question is why did he go to celtic besides being a life long celtic fan, was it really worth it, 28 appearences and 1 goal is hardly a record to go out on. Surely he must have known when he was forced out of united that he only had a season or so in him, would his time have been better spent with his family and thinking about his future rather than slogging it out in the shit hole that is the spl and celtic. It was sad and somewhat pathetic to watch him play after years of great play at united......... ah well.

Merseyside Derby
Gods first Merseyside since returning, only one outcome of this game - a pool win

Prediction Liverpool 3: Everton 0

Dougal: A one-word film. There can't be too many of those. Salem's Lot?