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My Proposed Questions to the HSE under Freedom of Information

The scandal that is the non-vaccination using BCG of children in Cork could have far-reaching implications for the health of many people under the age of 30. Both employees of the then Southern Health Board and the political appointees to the board may have had a say in implementing this negligent policy and continuing to allow it to occur since the 1970’s. It is clear that the health of Cork children is considered less important than that of children from elsewhere in the country.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 30, 2007

Greatest Wordpress Theme Ever!

If you are not a geek, stop reading now. Factory Joe (aka Chris Messina) did a Tweet earlier pointing to a theme for Wordpress. I just checked it out. I am so in awe of this person. It is a Commodore 64 Command Line Interface to a blog. Try typing last, next, current, help or cat Someone somewhere please please do a ZX Spectrum version of this. UPDATE 1: Ach, just realised Chris must have seen it on Boing Boing.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 29, 2007

Review of Anthony Bourdain Decoding Ferran Adria

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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, April 26, 2007

Vote for your county in All-Ireland Monopoly

Courtesy of Jonathan Hill. Get your county into the top spot in Monopoly! It looks like the entire population of Leitrim and Roscommon has voted with 296 and 258 votes respectively. Cork floundering with 31 and Kilkenny with 26. Note to Hasbro - maybe get a custom PollDaddy widget created that we could all put on our blogs? It’s viral baby!

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Wondering how to reading lots of web-sites quickly and what RSS is?

If you are one of my many non-technical readers you may have heard me and others mention things like RSS and words like “subscribe” and you may have wondered what it is all about. Well the lovely people over at The Common Craft Show have put together a great 3.5 minute video called “RSS in Plain English” which explains it all. If you check more than one or two sites/blogs per day to see if they have any updates then you need to watch this video and save yourself hassle.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Review of Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16K

A brilliant machine that is much better than Commodore 64 or Vic 20 rubbish <div> Review of <span class="type">product</span>: <span class="item"><span class="fn">[Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16K](http://www.worldofspectrum.org/)</span></span></div> Rated as 5/5 on Apr 23 2007 by Conor O’Neill This review originally conceived November 1982: My Dad contacted a workmate of his in the UK to see if they could get me one of the new ZX Spectrum home computers. I’ve wanted one of these since I saw the announcement but they are very expensive (over £100) so we went with the 16K model instead of the 48K.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 23, 2007

ZX Spectrum launched 25 years ago today!

This mightn’t be a big deal to most people but it’s a huge deal to me. If my parents hadn’t got me a ZX Spectrum in 1982, I wouldn’t have had the life I’ve had. No exaggeration. Every single college and career choice I’ve made stems from the skills I learned on that machine, which I still have (the machine, not the skills :-) ). Sure 50% of the time I was playing Jet Set Willy and Sabre Wulf but on the Speccy I learned BASIC, Forth and Z80 assembler.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Monday, April 23, 2007

How not to get my vote

I cannot understand why Christy O’Sullivan thinks he’ll get a vote from me. Here is a guy shoe-horned in by FF at a national level who sends me flyers with absolutely no information on them about who he is, what he believes in, where he lives, what he has accomplished as a politician or why I should vote for him. And of course his website doesn’t load! Inserting this nobody over a well known local politician like Alan Coleman is a huge mistake by FF.

Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, April 22, 2007

Sign the RTE Digital Free-to-Air Petition

As a lot of you know, you can get a Digital version of RTÉ (including Widescreen) on Sky Digital and NTL. However you must have a Sky/NTL subscription to see it. Many people, including myself, believe this is fundamentally wrong as we already support RTÉ through the mandatory TV licence. Please sign the petition from Brian Greene demanding that RTE make digital broadcasts of their programming available for “free”. If you are a blogger, consider adding the badge in support.