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An article over at the inquirer shows just how totally pointless (and possibly stupid) people can be. While listening to an audio stream of life in the Shannon estuary may keep my attention for a couple of minutes, surely the technology could be used to link up people who cannot currently get interweb access - remote villages in Africa, in ships or aeroplanes, from tops of mountains, or even nic's house...

Continuing on with the theme, work now have a designated period each Tuesday, for which we now have an "Internal Scheduled Maintenance Notice". This is in the name of progress and to improve customer satisfaction, however, it's far easier to remember it's old name - "at-risk" - and instead of the customer being able to request work to be done up to lunch-time on the day before the at-risk period, now they will have to wait a week before it can be done...