Politics

How can you tell if someone went to Trinity College?

They’ll tell you! Boom boom!

It’s an old joke, but frequently true. The Irish Internet Association are electing a new board at the moment and each of the nominees get a quick paragraph about themselves on the site. There are twelve nominees but only Trinity College alumni Clare Dillon and Catrina Sheridan see fit to tell everyone about their degrees and diplomas.

Door Number Three

Robert Cringely has an interesting column today @ I, Cringely. He talks about the inability of IT staff to fit in today’s corporate structure. He’s been fired from every job he’s ever had for this reason. He’s also been re-hired several times because of his value to the company. IT is the “Cousin Itt” of industry. We’re “generally useful, though dangerous”.

IT staff, no matter how good, will never be CEOs of major corporations. The one exception, John Reid of Citicorp, just proves the point, because he got fired too. Therefore IT staff are useless employees and no good at being managers.

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Seize drunk drivers cars

Jazz Biscuit is advocating taking cars off people who get caught for drunk driving. I like the idea. Maybe take it one step further and crush the car in front of them once they sober up….. on TV….. with a monster truck!

Jazz Biscuit: » Seize drunk drivers cars

Ireland.net 2.0 is about to get organised.

Paul Walsh has taken up the challenge organising an independent body to represent the interests of Irish web based companies. He’s already got a couple of the local heavy hitters (Damien Mulley and Fergus Burns) on his side, and he’s done this before with the British Interactive Media Association, so he’s no enthusiastic novice.

It would be nice to have a body representing native industry for a change. The only companies in this industry getting any mind share from government are the foreign ones, who may provide lots of jobs and pay lots of taxes, but they take their profits home at the More >