Dave’s Rants

Well I’m currently about half-way down the West coast of the South Island of New Zealand in a place called Franz Josef. They actually have a decent set of computers at this Internet Cafe so I’m in business. The Flickr page of my photos is now getting a lot more content and is looking well. […]

Just a quick post to mention that I’m still alive, the blog has been pushed down the list of priorities of what to update while I’m away with emailing the family being much more important!!
I’ve been trying to upload some photos to Flickr which can be seen here. I’ll keep uploading to there as […]

Silicon, always tells the true story
Semiconductor industry appears to be on the up, good news for people in the industry like me!
(tags: semiconductor business economy money silicon electronics)

Tomorrow at 12:15 I head off on the first leg of my journey to New Zealand. So since I’m heading off for the next six weeks the volume of posts here is going to reduce significantly and what posts there are will be about New Zealand. So anyway normal service will be resumed sometime in […]

When I first heard from my Dad last week at dinner that the publication of the Morris Tribunal report had to be brought forward due to an apparent case of ‘hacking’ I immediately decided that this wasn’t a case of real hacking rather simply somebody put up the report but didn’t link to it.
TJ McIntyre […]

So I headed off to Weezer last night and had a great time. It was a long day as I drove up and down but it was well worth it. The band didn’t play that long but I suppose since the songs are short they can pack them in!
Anyway I’ve uploaded some photos (of […]

I mentioned the other day that I had switched network to Meteor to enjoy the huge savings it offers. It appears I’m not the only one who has switched. Barry O’Donovan switched too and has compiled a table of the savings he’s enjoying on their pre-pay packages.
I moved from Vodafone pre-pay to Meteor Talk 60, […]

Kremed!
The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts - interesting business article on what was one of the darlings of the NYSE
(tags: doughnuts food business franchise via:waxy)

The Credit Card Prank
This guy signed loads of Credit Card reciepts with weird signatures, and they were accepted!!
(tags: via:boingboing creditcard fraud prank funny fun)

Flickr Hits 17 Million Photos
Wow! That […]

I got my first phone in 99 and back then I was with Esat Digifone (now o2). After that I ended up with Eircell (now Vodafone). I stayed with them until Saturday when I switched to Meteor. Since I am now longer a student I decided to move to a bill from prepay. This […]

If you follow Google or are into web development/design you may have heard about the launch of Google Sitemaps. Basically what a Sitemap traditionally has been is a HTML page of all the contents of your site, now Google have launched specifications for a XML version of your sitemap. What this means is that you […]