Incineration

On my flight on the way over to Las Palmas, I noticed a huge plume
of white smoke coming from some building. It was so far away that
it was hard to tell what it was but I suspect that it was an incineration
plant.

These are places where residential and industrial waste is quite
simply burned into the atmosphere. I think that in this day and age
that having to burn rubbish is prehistoric!! Surely most of that waste
can be recycled or reused in some way.

I find it good to see that the government here in Ireland are
beginning to encourage people to recycle vegetables and waste
that breaks down quite quickly for other uses such as compost or
fertilizer.

Already thousands of people recycle their glass, tin cans and paper
which is good to see.

Eircom are a pack of B*******ds

Our main telecom operator in Ireland really is the spawn of
Satan. Here are some of the things that anger me:

4 gig limit on their basic broadband service (40euro for that).

Currently upgrading the telephone exchanges slowly as:

* They make more money off Dialup than BB.
* It prevents competitors from attracting customers.

Government offered them 1800 million to hurry up BUT:

* They refused the offer to speed up the broadband layout.

* Instead they intend to remove 450 million.

* This 450 million will go to investors.

* Will that completely fuck up the company ..... I think yes!

The telephone network is in a unacceptable state.

* Half the population are on "shared/split" phone connections.
* That rules out broadband for them.

I must stop writing as this is making me mad as I remember all this
dirt on that ugly company. I hate them. I hate them.
You are going to die Eircom for being greedy at this stage in the
broadband market. You Will Die. muhahhahahaha.

Check out Irelandoffline for more information.
Pay particular attention to the forum.

Playing Munchkin!!

Such a funny game is Munchkin. We have been playing
the game here in the flat since 12am tonight. (2.54 now)
Basically its a turn based game where everyone has hit
points. You have to fight monsters and depending on your
level you may be able to beat it or not. Your fellow
players may also add hit points to the monster you are
fighting to make it harder for you.

They are basically trying to stop you from getting to
level 10 which results in a win.

It is a nerdy but fun game that results in lots and lots
of laughing and shouting and thickness (funny anger).

Putting things out of their Misery

A few minutes ago, there was a mouse outside my
house. It obviously had taken poison as it was slowly
shuffling around and kept falling over itself. It looked
like a young mouse as it was quite small.

I decided that it had to be put out of its misery as it
was clearly in a lot of pain due to the poison drying
out its insides.

Yet what is an acceptable method of killing a rodent as
quickly as possible? Could I bash it with a stick? Squash
it with a rock? Or throw it into a fire?

I decided that none of these methods were fast enough so
I resorted to my trusty firework collection. I used a Black
Cat and placed it beside the dying mouse and lit the fuse.
It was all over in a matter of seconds and I wont go into
the details but what I can say, is that the mouse definitely
died instantly.

A while after the incident, I kinda felt guilty. But didn't I do
the animal a favor? Sould I have left the animal to die in pain?

I don't think so.

Back to the Old Routine

Just came back up to Dublin there on the bus after
working in the Nursery for about 10 days straight.

Its like world war 3 in the city at the moment with all the
fireworks going off due to Halloween. Its kinda ironic due
the fact that Fireworks are actually banned in Ireland!!
Isn't that so f*cking stupid.

Every year tons and tons of shit fireworks are smuggled
into the country and sometimes blow off some kids fingers
due to the fact that they were manufacture in a unsupported
fireworks factory.

If the government were to legalise Fireworks and introduce
a strict screening process to filter out the crap fireworks
then maybe it would be a safer Halloween for everyone
including cats and dogs who get mutilated every year.
Mice dont count.

Irelands Typical Begining

It all started about 60 years ago. Around this
time England decided it was time to upgrade
their entire phone network. This action involved
replacing the entire wiring system.

Guess what?
Ireland saw an opportunity too good to miss!!!

Lets buy the old network from the Brits!
Rejoice !! Rejoice !!
A telephone system for cheap!!!

WE HAVE BEEN DOOMED EVER SINCE.

And we are starting to feel the effects of the botched
job right about now.

For Instance:

140 phones share 100 lines resulting in no broadband
for 40 unfortunates. (and that is a optimistic example)

Some phone lines in such poor condition that the phone
companies are supprised that voice works through them,
let alone data!!!

Phone system is so bad, the main telecom provider couldn't
be bothered upgrading the network resulting in the
Government having to install 17 MANs (Metropoliton
Area Networks) encircling 17 stragtic towns in the country.
These networks will then be rented out to all the ISPs.

to be continued....

I will probably moan more about this soon enough.
This is really only the tip of the iceberg.

Work

Just back from work.
Absolutely wreaked.
I work in a Nursery by the way, not a
place for babies but a place for plants
and trees and shrubs and .....etc.

Just checking out the hardware tech
sites at the moment. Nothing usually
happens on weekends in the computer
world so I'm not exactly expecting much.
Hopefully someone will be complaining
here about something. : )