Posts by Keith Martin

Filters

Outlook does this wonderfully with filters - just set them to hold outbound emails for two minutes before sending. Has saved me on a few occasions.

Feck in Ireland

Feck is used as a less offensive substitute for 'fuck' in Ireland. It is not always a suitable stand-in, though. For example, it would not be used as a verb replacement for 'to copulate'.

"Feck off", as used in the ad, is a *relatively* inoffensive way to say "go away" in Ireland.

Think it's bad in UK?

Try the Irish pricing:

http://www.keith.gs/2008/11/vodafone-blackberry-storm-yet-another-paddy-tax/

Vodafone IRL

Vodafone recently wrote to me to point out that they are charging me thirteen euro (around a tenner sterling) for the first MB each month. Will the rules apply to data prices in your own country too, or should I just drive up to Newry when I want to check my email on the move?

If all else fails...

...cash wins.

Good to see that money is still everything.

It's Definitely Ireland

Ireland is part of the Nordic Battle Group. That's because the military non-alignment of Ireland is most closely matched by the stance normally taken by the Nordics.

Reg Units?

Where are the Reg Standard Units? How many Bulgarian Funbags are being lost by the sun every minute?

Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is probably a more reliable source than one of their other major ones - Fox News. Fair and Balanced indeed.

Ten Years of...

...every court case starting with "Your Honour, I posted in the fine (in cash) around mid-November 2007. Didn't you receive it?"

Most Interesting

"...or how much extra buyers will have to pay for Windows"

That could be the most interesting bit of this all.

Galileo

Galileo presumably won't include SA, so if the US went ahead with SA, then Galileo would whip them. Even if Galileo ends up not going ahead (and that decision will probably rest on whether the US system still has SA or not, because that's Galileo's competitive advantage), the US basically has to drop SA for everything except very extreme situations.

PCs Too?

Would this apply to PC manufacturers too? Surely the machines these people used to book the flights were made by a US-owned company (at least some of them). Who's going to grass on them?

In fact, I used a Dell laptop to organise and book a 15 person trip to Cuba just last year. Maybe accounting "issues" won't be Michael Dell's only problem shortly ;-)