antoin@eire.com

I am tired trying to go around the web and read my favorite sites every day, so I’ve come up with a more efficient way to keep up.
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Two quotes if arguments about postcodes don’t make you fall asleep.
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The best thing about having a weblog is the comments. It’s a great feeling when people comment on what you have to say. The worst thing about having a weblog is also to do with comments. It’s the comment spam which makes the site look like a haven for pornographers. I’ve had to do something about it.
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A report (rather long, 500 pages) has been published about police corruption in Ireland. Basically, a tribunal found that a small group of Gardai (police) had faked a number of finds of IRA explosives.
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In January, Ireland’s new Commercial Court was opened. It’s basically a high-tech, process-reengineered version of the High Court. It shows how traditional insitutions can be improved and made fulfill their purpose better.
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One of the interesting things about the Internet is when you can use it as a barometer for taste. For example, I am able to find out what the feeling among computer scientists in my alma mater Trinity College, Dublin about Kent Beck’s books.
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One of the big advantages of a well-thought-out placecode or postcode system in Ireland would be for creating databases of local services.
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There were a couple of interesting items in the Irish Times today. One article covered the beginning of the emergence of fourth-generation networks in Japan. What wasn’t covered was that similar networks are being planned and rolled out in Europe. For example, Martin Varsavsky is launching FON, which plans to roll out 4G across Europe.

My friends Niall and L?an go for a trip on Dublin’s new light rail system. What is very striking to me is the amount of traffic in the pictures of the Canal Quays. Dublin really is overwhelmed with traffic.

The last month or two, the folks at my company, Digital Messenger have been working hard building a multimedia player system which allows multimedia files to be played at tens or hundreds of locations, and to be updated automatically via an ordinary telephone line.
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