Following on from my earlier post I thought it timely to mention one of the key issues with driving in this country - the crazy waiting period for actually sitting a test. The Department of Transport provides some details on the average pass rates and waiting times by testing centre. A quick scan of the list is both revealing and worrying! You can be waiting up to 54 weeks for … [Read more...] about Driving Test Waiting Times
Migrating And Upgrading ….
I finally took delivery of my new "toy" yesterday afternoon, so I've added a new server to my personal collection. It's a little HP DL 140 running Ubuntu server which I'll be using for some of my personal projects, such as the webmaster forum and a few other things. Migrating the various sites in from other machines dotted around the place shouldn't be too complicated, but I am … [Read more...] about Migrating And Upgrading ….
Irish Driving
Over the last few weeks a lot of media attention has been focussed on the "current" problems with Irish roads and in particular the high incidence of deaths. Damien Blake's post has given me the extra "push" to post this... As some of you know I recently got a car - I didn't really need one when I was living in the centre of Milan and hadn't got round to getting one when I came … [Read more...] about Irish Driving
Fastprovider.ie is gone
I see Tom has sold FastProvider to some lot in Belfast. I wonder what he'll get up to now... … [Read more...] about Fastprovider.ie is gone
New Blog on the Block
Richard has finally started blogging! He has subtitled his blog "rambles around the head of a senior citizen", but I don't think you need to be that old to appreciate his humour … [Read more...] about New Blog on the Block