Category: General

General Interest and Topical Articles.

Paying for Online Social Networking Services

Online Social Networking via the likes of Twitter, Linkedin, Blogging, etc.. is fast becoming a proven and effective method of promoting your company and brand and as more and more people realise its benefits I’m sure more and more companies offering to “network” for you will spring up. However I’d like to pose a few questions before you confirm that you don’t have the time yourself and prefer to splash out what’s sure to be thousands of euros on the services of some internet marketing company. Continue reading Paying for Online Social Networking Services

Ireland – Grand Slam Winners 2009

We’ve been a bit starved of sporting success in this country in recent years. Italia 90, Olympics 92, and Atlanta 96 are all distant memories but yesterday we had an Irish victory significant enough to go into the history books and lift the nation. Our national rugby team, under achievers for lat last decade at least, finally put their fears of winning to bed and conjured up perhaps our greatest achievement in rugby ever.

I for one expected the usual narrow and unlucky defeat but moral victory and a crippling inability to shoulder the favorites tag that Ireland as a nation commonly shows on the sporting field, but everyone you listened to before the game from people on the street, to TV pundits to the team themselves showed an unusual but inspiring confidence and that seems to have carried the team through.

Lets hope it has an uplifting effect for all of us on an economic downer in a similar way that the success of the national soccer team had in the late 80’s and early 90’s just before the start of the CT!?

Northern Ireland Killings

Bad news stories are ten a penny these days but theres something profoundly depressing about the news of the killings in the North this week. I think its the shock factor that’s caught us all off guard. We had become smug and cosy in the perceived knowledge that we had put our violent past to bed and become one of the few waring countries to see sense and stop killing each other.

Its nice to see the parties and people up north, here and in the UK uniting to condenm the killings so lets hope this is only a blip and that we have indeed put violence to rest here and can continue to set an example to the rest of the world but I have my doubts. If there are lunatics out there that are prepared to SO go against the common flow then we should brace ourselves..

Simple Definition of Online Social Networking

Social Networking for Business is a term thats bandied about a lot lately and even though I live and breath the internet and have actually BEEN Social Networking online for a few years now, I still wasn’t sure what it really was and what its benefits were until very recently when the penny dropped! Continue reading Simple Definition of Online Social Networking

Jade Goody Poll

Been watching Jade Goody’s cancer story on the news lately and find myself very moved by the whole thing. Its weird for me to be interested in celebrity culture or to be moved by the death, impending or otherwise of one but this is a bit different and possibly the first time a celeb has basically “died” right before our eyes. So is it right that we should all be part of a strangers TV death or should Jade keep to herself in her final days? Poll below: Continue reading Jade Goody Poll

Robbie Keane back to Spurs: Poll

So its confirmed today within hours of the transfer window closing, Robbie is going back to Spurs after 6 miserable months at my club Liverpool. Was he not up to the job, did he not fit into the system, was he given a fair chance or did Benitez not even sign him in the first place!? Please vote or leave your opinion below: Continue reading Robbie Keane back to Spurs: Poll

3G USB Mobile Broadband Router

The only broadband I’ve been able to get in my current location in Leitrim is O2’s mobile broadband usb dongle which, for the most part has been fine but sharing the connection around the house via LAN or WiFi is tricky. Continue reading 3G USB Mobile Broadband Router