Getting Free Digital TV in West Cork on Rabbit Ears
Over on my tech blog recently, I mentioned dumping Sky TV and getting an Ariva 120 box. This is a combination satellite and digital terrestrial receiver. It costs an amazing €99 and you never have to pay another thing. You disconnect your Sky box, plug the satellite lead and aerial lead into the Ariva and you’re done.
Until yesterday I had only used the satellite bit which gives you BBC etc.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, September 11, 2011
Cork CoCo to Support Hot-Desking Setups in County Towns
I don’t know how I missed this when it was announced recently. A superb initiative from Cork County Council. They have put aside €300,000 to help with provision of enterprise centres / hot desk facilities in County Towns. This will include a contribution of up to €35,000 for tech and hot desk provision.
The downside is that is doesn’t cover building rental but surely some joined-up thinker in the Council is already working on a deal with NAMA to get properties for rental at 10c on the Euro or less?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, August 7, 2011
See where the NAMA Properties are on Google Maps
Well done to Gavin Sheridan and the crew at The Story. They took NAMA’s pathetic PDF release of the properties it owns, extracted the data into the fantastic Google Fusion Tables and then mapped the results into Google Maps.
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Go on, you know you won’t be able to help yourself. I immediately zoomed into Bandon to see what was there. Surprisingly few properties actually.
Head on over to the site and click on any dot of interest to see what property it is.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, August 2, 2011
How Your Kids Can Re-Build The Country - Cork Coder Dojo
Ireland has more than enough Corporate Lawyers, Audit Accountants, Bankers and Civil Servants. What it needs are creative people building products, services and businesses. That doesn’t necessarily mean every kid in Ireland should be doing Science or Engineering but lord, would more of you please do those subjects.
The internet is one place where we see a wonderful synthesis of creativity in design and engineering. I believe you can teach anyone the basics of web development to a level where they can contribute in some way to web applications and mobile applications.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, July 24, 2011
More FSAI Nonsense - Now They are Trying to Ban Raw Milk
After the pork recall debacle, you’d thing the FSAI would get a bit of cop-on but obviously they need to keep inventing make-work to keep themselves in jobs. Their latest wheeze is to try and ban Raw Milk. Not bleach-cleaned chicken nuggets or mechanically recovered meat burgers or sausages with 53% “meat”. No, they want to ban a product that some people actively seek out and choose to drink.
I’m really really getting sick and tired of this bullshit.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, July 11, 2011
Bandon Happy Hour this Fri 1st and Sat 2nd July
This is a really great initiative by the Bandon Co-Marketing Group. From 12–3PM this Friday and Saturday, the town will be offering an unbeatable range of discounts and special offers on goods and professional services.
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More than 63 businesses have signed up to offer deals and there is also the chance to enter Bandon’s Lucky Dip and win one of six vouchers worth €200, redeemable in any member business.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Hot Desking Office Space in Bantry
It has always struck me as ridiculous that the only place in all of West Cork where you can get a short-term Hot-Desk is in Macroom. We’re not that far from it but it’s still a horrible drive from Bandon.
We continue to struggle as a small Internet business with 6 Mbs ADSL (512kbs up). If we were slightly closer to the exchange we might get 12Mbs. Those responsible for allowing Fibre connectivity to bypass Bandon have ensured that there will never be a technology cluster in the town.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
10 Years a-bloggin'
Hard to believe. Little did I think, this day 10 years ago, that I’d still be blogging away like fury. I originally started with Blogspot as I wasn’t keeping my Geocities home page up to date. It was not an auspicious start:
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And didn’t exactly take off like a rocket with only 3 posts in 2001!
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2005 was the year I really got going when I moved from Blogspot to Wordpress.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 17, 2011
What Bandon has to offer
Very nice piece by Trevor on what the town has to offer. Why not leave a comment over there with your thoughts?
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, March 26, 2011