A story in today’s Irish Times suggests that the extension of the Luas between Stephen’s Green and Abbey St. will cost around €70m. This doesn’t contradict the earlier story, which estimated the cost at less than €100m.
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Luas and the walls of Trinity
November 4th, 2004 byNew line linking Luas Green and Red lines
November 1st, 2004 byA story on the ireland.com breaking new web site (registration required?!?) mentions at the bottom that the new Luas line linking the Red and Green lines would “take 18 months and cost under €100 million,” according to the Rail Procurement Agency.
It is my belief that these costs and timelines are vastly underestimated in order to make them more palatable to journalists, opposition politicians and the public alike. I will be watching them and if I hear any changes, I’ll post them here.
Éibhear
I chose to comment.
October 5th, 2004 byA few days ago I received an e-mail with the subject “FW: I chose to Forward” that had been forwarded on to me. It was at least on its fourth trip, as there were many “> > > >”s in front of every line.
The e-mail tells the heart-warming story of a young disabled boy who was allowed into a softball game and permitted to get a home-run by the other boys despite the fact that it would not have been possible if there had been at least one boy on the field who was more competitive than generous.
Truly a nice story, but probably a story nonetheless.
At the end of the e-mail, though, came the following…
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Firefox on Windows: Login Hell
October 5th, 2004 byFirefox has a new version out: 0.10.1 (or 2.0PR — for “Pre-Release”). We’re getting very close now to 1.0 — at which point, I’ll probably find something else to tickle my fancy, but that’s beside the point.
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Improvement on the PATRIOT act situation
October 2nd, 2004 byIn somewhat of a follow-up in this previous entry, there is news that some provisions of the PATRIOT act that was used against the people involved are unconstitutional. Again, I say to all those who argue that if you do nothing wrong you’ve nothing to hide: that’s an argument that not even courts will accept.
ISP disaster.
October 2nd, 2004 byMy ISP, name2host.com, lost their data centre recently, and we lost all access to our systems recently, including our website and all the e-mail accounts. The guys are seriously annoyed about this, and I have a lot of pity for them. They have managed to get a data centre for the moment, but it’s horrendously slow, and I still don’t have reliable use of my preferred e-mail address.
I will have to make a decision soon as to whether to go somewhere else. Hopefully they’ll sort it out in the next couple of weeks and all will be well.
I wish them well.
Éibhear
Woohoo! I got a story on Slashdot
August 13th, 2004 by“But, if you’ve nothing to hide…”
July 27th, 2004 byNews just in from Slashdot: apparently, the US PATRIOT act has been used to investigate someone accused of copyright violations.
Let me be clear about this: violating someone’s copyright is not an act of terrorism. No argument to the contrary, in my opinion, can hold water.
Electronic voting and the next election
June 14th, 2004 byAll of this is speculation.
Later in the summer or some time in the autumn, there will be a cabinet reshuffle. I guess that Bertie Ahern will try to answer the protest vote by promoting fresh blood. We’ll see some younger ministers, and quite a few current guys will be put out to pasture. Top of the list, I expect, will be the directors of elections — John O Donoghue and Martin Cullen. If not for their poor performances in their jobs to get more FF candidates elected (to say the least) at least because the former has been on a slippery slop for the last two years anyway and because the latter made such haymes of the introduction of electronic voting.
European Parliament
June 14th, 2004 byJust a quick one.
The analysis of the EU parliament is being conducted. It’s a great pity that we weren’t able to reelect Patricia McKenna, only slightly tempered by the joy that Royston, Bertie’s cyphre, was not elected. Can’t quite dance in the street, though.
Installing Fedora Core 2 from a hard drive
June 2nd, 2004 byAs posted on the ILUG mailing list.
Hi,
I don’t normally do this, but I had to solve a problem that’s possible for some to encounter. Any and all of the below can be contradicted or improved upon. Feel free.
I downloaded Fedora Core 2 last week with the intention of installing it on a desktop system I use here for experimentation. The system already runs Fedora Core 1. Here is what I did to install FC1:
The name
May 3rd, 2004 byJust a quick note on the name: provocatio is a latin term dating from around the 5th century B.C. Rome, at the time, was ruled by an aristocracy known as the patricians. These were the people who could trace their ancestries back to the founding of Rome in 753B.C. Initially, the Roman Senate was mad up of patricians. Initially, all the office-holders (magistrates) were patricians.
Provocatio, by Éibhear
May 3rd, 2004 byAnd here it is. Éibhear’s blog.
This is just for fun, and nothing here is to be taken too seriously. However, the intention is to improve my prose and to learn how to blog effectively.
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