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First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork.
I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP to [...]

The lads from Lagos must be hard up. They aren’t even making a decent effort at scamming us decedent Westerners anymore. At least if this gem is anything to go by:
Dear Friend i verry happy to inform you about my success in getting those
funds transferred under the cooperation of  your help in UNITED KINDOM in our
last [...]

I was collecting my mother last night from Cork Airport as I usually do a few times a year. They airport authorities have now made it as near as impossible as can be to pick up near the arrivals area. There were about four flights just after arriving by the time I got there so [...]

Some of the insanity going on in this country at the moment:

The Financial Regulator is getting plush new offices to the tune in €8m paid for out of government funds. By the same government who said that there was not enough money to spend €10m on a cervical cancer vaccine! (Thanks to Grandad for pointing [...]

It’s obviously a mistake but is was visible here a short while ago. Click for bigger.

But then I found out that Command & Conquer Red Alert is now free to download so I’ve been playing that and Red Alert 2 for the past few days.
It’s almost out of my system now. I’ve finished Red Alert and almost there with RA2.
A bit if trivia for you. I ended up in hospital [...]

I’ve just had an horrific few days. It stated on Wednesday when all of a sudden I started really craving cigarettes even if I was smoking one at the time. It didn’t take long for me to cop on that this was “my sign.”
For some odd reason just as I’m about to come down with [...]

I was heading home having finished my last exam yesterday around 11:30am. About half way between Clonmel and Ballymacarbery on the opposite side of the road was a damaged BMW 318. As you can see from one of the photos below it was just abandoned on the road just after a blind corner! No sign [...]