In a shocking typical move from ComReg they have bent over to the will of Vodafone and allowed them a 400% increase in the cost of dialing 1850 numbers. I don’t know but it looks like they are trying to completely fuck telecoms in Ireland up. As if they hadn’t done enough damage regarding broadband.
If anyone from ComReg is reading this, I’m currently in need of a job so if a commissioner spot opens up call me, I know allowing a telco to hike up costs 400% is a bad thing so it seems I’m more qualified then the current morons you have running the place.
Also, I had hoped when the Greens got control of Comms in government that things would change for the better but it appears they are just as spineless and pathetic as ComReg. But thats for another post.
I wonder how many times I’ll end up using that title in the lifetime of this blog. Quite a few times I suspect.
In the mean time I’ve been sorting out the legalities of being a company director. All these laws you’ve never heard of are highlighted to you in that booklet they send out. I suspect I’m most of the way there now.
Sorting out bank accounts too, now that is a right pain in the hole. There is quite a bit of paperwork behind it and I never realised how expensive a merchant account can be. I’d want to be making a hell of a lot more to justify switching over from our current solution.
I also got myself a part time job with my school being the tech guy from their adult ed class. While I remain on the search for something full time, I’m currently doing interviews with a large multinational company who mainly do search and advertising but do other stuff like email too. To anyone familiar with the process, i’m currently waiting to hear back from the first tech interview.
Oddly enough I’ve applied to a few other companies and never heard anything back. This large multinational was the company I was least expecting to hear from. It’s funny how these things work.
Oh yeah and I went off and joined the Army Reserve too. Probably won’t mention that again, opsec and all that you know.
I should also probably consider finishing off these draft posts. Hell one of them is “Joost invites anyone?”
This time last night I was coming home from Halo 3 launch party (was good although no RDA) and HMV with my copy. I have just finished single player now.
I’ve also hit exactly 2000 gamerpoints finishing Halo.
I don’t have much at the moment, but I was a little underwhelmed by the ending of the game. Does anyone see it pretty much as Halo 1 with slightly prettier graphics and more peril? The ending was a straight rip off though, a long drive to the exit while being surrounded by impossible jumps and explosions.
While I haven’t been counting I did feel Halo 3 was a lot shorter then the other two games and its not like I’ve been playing straight through since last night, an hour or two every once in a while and I’m already done.
Sure you could say I haven’t unlocked it on every level and so on on on, but thats not me, generally when I play through a game I only want to do it once. I don’t feel the need to stroke my e-penis by having a game entirely completed.
Yeah yeah I know its all about multiplayer, I don’t ever want to know the total amount of hours (years?) people have played Halo 2 but I’m not one for sticking to multiplayer for any length of time. Hmm I don’t know. It’s a good game but does it deserve all the hype? I just don’t know.
Jason sent me a link to this a few days ago and I have to say I am so blown away by how cool this clip is. It is Pulp Fiction in Typography and my god, it’s so damn awesome.
I’m also working on draft post about DemoBar/PaddysValley/OpenCoffee too. Needless to say, it was awesome.
Originally I got my mobile from Vodafone, but unhappy with their policy on credit expiring after 30 days (I always lost lots of credit that way) I switched over to O2. After they fumbled the switchover I should of seen the signs. Although I did manage to get the best part of 120 euros worth of free credit from them because of it
Over the last few days, I’ve become fed up since I’ve started using my phone more and more. Sitting down remaining still talk to someone, only for the call to disconnect. People on Vodafone would tell me when they dial me, they hear out of service and so on. I wouldn’t receive calls at all at times. So adios O2. I’ve switched back to Vodafone (Also take a hint O2, their sim switchover pack is free.)
Yesterday I stepped inside Google’s EU headquarters for a SAGE-IE meeting that David Malone was giving on “Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins”
A very good talk considering I’m now at the stage where I’m going to be sending out CV’s for applying for jobs in the whole networking/sysadmin area. I was pleasantly surprised to find I could answer some of the questions in a decent level of detail (considering my experience) while I could give partial answers (Who knew if UDP was being filtered you can send an ICMP unreachable response back, always believed it was a fire and forget protocol, which it is to an extent) to others.
The only one I found myself stumped at was printing in linux/unix because I’ve never used linux/unix before on the desktop long enough to actually set up printing. At the moment this is my current mindset
Servers = Linux/Unix
Desktops = Windows
Before I anger someone, this is my personal view and each to their own.
I don’t think I could describe the Irish any more accurately then this.
I was in town today dropping off forms to the CRO (who could really do with air conditioning in their office) and on my way back home I stopped off in McDonalds for a bite to eat (What can I say, I’m a classy guy)
The fire alarm went off while I was biting into my burger and so the guy sitting beside me and myself in perfect sync turned around to see if there was flames behind us. Satisfied we were in no immediate danger we turned back around and finished eating.
And all I can say that its freaked the shit out of me. These people obviously have some very deep rooted psychological problems that they should really get some help with. When you get to a stage in life where you refer to a over sized piece of plastic as ’she’ and feel stressed out from being separated from ‘her’ you know you’ve got some problems.
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