Great article from Silicon Valley Watcher regarding the Telecoms Luddites in the US.

In his piece, he states that "The cable and telco companies are anti-competitive and their actions will make sure that the US becomes uncompetitive". I cant help but feel that this is just as relevant to Ireland. At least the US have Silicon Valley which is willing and capable of fighting back.

Recently, the MD of eBay Ireland referred to the Irish broadband situation as "Fraudband". Upload speeds of many "Fraudband" packages are still fixed at 256k (even when they are making a song and dance about download speeds of 6MB).

How are we supposed to upload your music, pictures, movies and data and participate in the multimedia online world with upload speeds like this?

I learned that you can understand exactly what a baby is trying to say by the sound it makes when it cries. Listen to the sound the baby makes just before it starts crying or at the start of the crying noise before it gets hysterical. The following are the 5 key sounds and what they mean:

Neh = Hungry
Owh = Tired
Heh = Discomfort
Eairh = Have lower gas
Eh = Need burping

This is known as the Dunstan Baby Language. Try it, its fun and it actually works.

Thinking about the recent events in Burma, the question: is democracy a basic human right occurred to me.

I would say that it is. If so, what are the implications of this?

What do you think?

These are pictures of the actual Delorean from Back to the Future. I took these in Universal Studios in Los Angeles in 2003 but am only getting around to posting them now.

This was one of my favorites



This was one of the award winning ones. I don't know if Ireland quite has the weather for these outdoor living room type gardens.



I have a lot more Bloom photos in the photo album (pw required)

I was in NY for work and as always took a number of photos. Here are some of the more interesting ones:

The Apple store in NY, wonderful flagship store, great bold architecture and some great products and technology inside:



Central park, of course:



Ground zero:

Swords Veterinary Clinic website now online, see swordsvet.com for more information.

Keelin's Karmann Ghia website is now freely accessible to all who are interested in VW Karmann Ghias. Click on the link below to browse the site: pictures on the site include the original colour of the car when imported into Ireland, pictures of performing the paint job and pictures of the car when completed. To view the site: KeelinsKarmann.com click here.