Community: April 2007 Archives
I was delighted to here the news about the 151 jobs announced for Limerick this week. I worked in Limerick for several years and experienced the dot com boom and burst while being employed in the private sector.After the dot com bubble burst a number of my friends had to leave Limerick to find tech and sw jobs else where. For a number of years Limerick was in the doldrums from and R&D perspective, but slowly over the past 18 - 24 months it has experienced a turn around.
100 jobs with electronic payment systems software firm ACI Worldwide - R&D, software, tech support and finance.
30 jobs for Masters graduates with Rovsing - software development centre in Limerick specialising in the creation of specialist software tools for satellites and ground systems for spacecraft.
21 jobs with AR Corporate’s new European distribution headquarters - The company develops, manufactures and distributes high-power broadband radio frequency (RF) amplifiers.
Wood-Pellet-Ireland was recommended to me by a renewable energy expert colleague. The author chooses to remain anonymous as he has the tendency to speak his mind and expose rip-off pricing practices.
The author of this site is technically competent and certainly knows the ins and outs of boilers/burners. He is of the opinion however that the current wood pellet boilers are similar to the 1940s oil burners
He also lists 11 reasons as to why you shouldn't opt for wood pellet heating just yet.
If you are looking for a detailed review of the Benekov boiler I would recommend reading his blog as it includes detailed correspondence with supplier and clarification on the difference between the Irish and European versions.
Local Fianna Fail TD's are trumpeting the announcement of Tipperary towns and villages getting Broadband from Eircom. There is one important piece of information missing from their press release / vote for me message.
The vital piece of info missing is the install date. There is none. Therefore there is no commitment. Damien Mulley already covered this missing piece of vital information.
What Fianna Fail fail to grasp is that we could all have broadband if we had a scheme that encourages rural communities to be connected by independent broadband providers from the local area.
The Government i.e. Fianna Fail and the Progressive Democrats made a total mess of this as the community broadband scheme pays out on the number connected not on the expense of connecting isolated rural communities.
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Our technically inept govt may have to buy the storage leases for our e-voting machines that do not work. The Irish Times reports that some of these leases are up to 25 years long.
