#“PAYG data effectively 4x more on 3IRL than 3UK……in Ireland” I've mentioned my Pay As You Go Three UK SIM many times on Twitter. The value and customer friendliness of it is still unbeatable. Walk into a Three UK store, give them £10 and get a SIM with a ton of minutes, texts and 150MB data that lasts 90 days.Top it up with another tenner for good measure and that doesn't expire. »
#“Unlock that old broadband modem from the contract you cancelled” Recently I cancelled my contract for O2 mobile broadband. I was dishing out 30 per month for a service I maybe using a few days a month. I found that the N95-8GB or HTC G1 as a tethered modem with a 1GB data add-on for my Vodafone phone SIM was more than sufficient for my current needs. However, it seemed an awful shame to leave the Huawei E270 modem unused since it is bloody good and does 7. »
#“Your Country, Your Call - Love the idea” via cisco.com Let's all get tinkin! »
#“Another opportunity missed by old-school media” Earlier this month, Time Warner (the parent company of HBO), started discussing its plans for HBO GO, a Hulu ()-like site for accessing the channels movies and TV shows. There is a catch, of course: You have to be an HBO subscriber to get it. via mashable.com Dearest HBO, I love your programmes. In fact I love them so much I'd be willing to pay you so I can watch them in Ireland even tho I can get many of them at a later point for " »
#“I know what the 3 y/o is getting for her birthday this year.” via mashable.com Fisher Price iXL. Finally we can retire the Dora laptop. »
#“Half maths teachers not qualified” Only 16 per cent of Leaving Cert students sit the higher-level paper, the lowest figure for any honours subject. via irishtimes.com Any politician who comes out with that old claptrap about Ireland having a highly educated young workforce should be forced to read and recite this. 16%. 16% No wonder we had an economic bubble, no-one in charge can bloody add. »
#“Google Buzz Team. Stop. Now.” Google Buzz just gave me screen after screen of tweets spread over a few hours from people I follow, all in one go. Buzz is broken. Pretty much every user-impacting decision they made was wrong. Google built an application where Employee of the Month went to whoever could rattle off the largest number of Open Standards inthirtyseconds. Open blahblahblah blah blah blah, Activity blah blah, rel=yawn, federated blah blah blah, semantic circlejerk 3. »
#“British bishops as congenitally stupid as their Irish peers” include eating by candlelight, cutting meat and vegetables thinner so they cook faster via irishtimes.com As if we needed any more ammunition against the church, British bishops want us to slice our vegetables thinner for Lent. I guess the princes' housekeepers will do that for them. »
#“Dr Cooper explains how new Buzz messages appear” The most infuriating aspect of Buzz (and boy are there lots of them) is how a comment by some random stranger on a message by some stranger you follow, is considered so urgently important that it immediately jumps to the top of your page. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this product could never have been tested by anyone with more than about 3 friends. »
#“Google ChromeOS Flow is a speedy wee thing” Yep, still Alpha, still very rough, but any OS that boots in a few seconds (faster than my phone in fact) and has me online a few seconds later has something going for it Looking forward to seeing it tweaked for a tablet. HTML5 annnnnd Flash. http://qik.com/video/4944281 To try it out, all you need is a 2GB thumbdrive and pretty much any standard netbook. »