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• Free high-visibility vests in road safety drive

High visibility vests are being given out today to pedestrians for free in Kilkenny as part of the national Road Safety Campaign. The Ireland Community Support Philanthropy committee bought around 2,000 high visibility orange vests, many of which will be given out by gardaí in the streets of Kilkenny today. Similar ventures are also been undertaken in [...]

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• Geansai Gorm enters its final daze …

Well the last month for me has been a bit of a daze between one thing and another its been all go. I’ve no had as much time as I would have liked to have to spend on SEO for my website taskdrop also known as my geansai gorm entry to Damien Mulleys SEO competition. [...]

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• Blogger Webby Meet up Thursday 27th in Dublin

Well pretty much just copying what Jason said over on http://www.jason-roe.com/blog/blogger-webby-meet-up-dublin-thursday-27th-nov// Looks like a few of us could be going for dinner and a few drinks if anyone is interested on Thursday 20th November 2008. Just spreading the good word. Its mid week so no doubt numbers will be low but if you feel like tagging along [...]

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• Blogger Webby Meet up Thursday 20th in Dublin

Well pretty much just copying what Jason said over on http://www.jason-roe.com/blog/blogger-webby-meet-up-dublin-thursday-19th-nov/ Looks like a few of us could be going for dinner and a few drinks if anyone is interested on Thursday 20th November 2008. Just spreading the good word. Its mid week so no doubt numbers will be low but if you feel like tagging along [...]

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• I Accept Cookies gets a make over.

Well I made a mockup a good while ago … and never got around to templating it. The last few days however have seen me playing with WordPress quite a bit on the Geansai Gorm website as well as the Forbairt Marketing site and I thought what the hell why not try making the change [...]

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• So I bit the Geansai Gorm biscuit Cookie

I ordered a domain … I set up a site and here it is The Official Geansai Gorm Website. But But But your name doesn’t have anything to do with blue / jumpers / geansai / gorm … yeah yeah I know … I didn’t want to get a domain I’d end up doing absolutely nothing [...]

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• get CrossOver free Tuesday 28th October only

Why not go on over to CodeWeavers this morning and get yourself a free copy of CodeWeavers CrossOver for Linux / Mac … http://down.codeweavers.com/ Its a limited offer and you’ll have to register it today. (Also their site has been hammered pretty badly it would appear but you should still be able to get it) Enjoy, James

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• Bank holiday road campaign begins

 Excessive speed, drink driving and non-wearing of seat belts are to be targeted by a major Garda operation in the greater Dublin area this bank holiday weekend. From today until Monday checkpoints will be placed at locations throughout the city, operating mandatory alcohol testing and checking for breaches of road traffic laws. 23 people have already lost [...]

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• Dublin City centre traffic may be banned

Dublin City Council has warned that all through traffic may have to be banned from the city centre because of congestion and construction projects. A consultation paper says the number of commuters is projected to nearly double and that there is no room for more cars on city centre streets. The warning comes as the council prepares [...]

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• Car Tax Increase In The 2009 Budget

The 2009 Budget was announced yeasterday 14-Oct-2008 and as expected the car tax prices has been increased once again by 4% and respectively 5% with effect from January 2009. A complete list can be downloaded from the goverment website: Motor Tax Rates >>

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• RSA Driving Test - Their Own Rules Of The Road

Recently, a very good friend of mine has undergo her driving test but failed once again (talking about third time lucky-NOT). Please Note: It didn’t bother me at all that she failed the test, but when I’ve heard WHY, I got really upset, so I decided to contact the RSA Driving Test Office. Tried by phone, but [...]

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• NISSAN SKYLINE GTR 33 - Power in a Sedan

Why is the Skyline so popular?  Perhaps because this monster of a sedan can hit 60 mph in just 4.9 seconds; and if you press the gas pedal a little bit more, you can reach 100 mph in just 12.3 seconds.  No wonder the Skyline is also fondly called “Godzilla.”  But is it all about [...]

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• Speed limit rise on 260km of road

Thousands of learner drivers will have to find a new way to work from today because the roads they drive on are being made into motorways. From this morning the speed limit has increased on 260km of dual carriageway around the country after their status was upgraded. For many motorists this is seen as good news but [...]

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• Garda website lists speed check zones

  Gardaí are to publish the locations of over 700 speed enforcement zones on their website on a county by county basis. The zones cover accident blackspots which will be targeted by high visibility and speed detection policing. Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy launched eight new speed detection vans in Templemore, Co Tipperary, this morning. Each van is equipped with [...]

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• 1400 fined by new learner driver law

Hundreds of people have been caught breaching the new regulations for learner drivers. New figures obtained from the gardaí show 1,400 offences have been committed over a two-month period.   The new rules for learner drivers were introduced by the Government in July, the most significant of which affected those on a second provisional licence. Previously, such drivers were [...]

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• OSX update + MAMP update = oh ****

Well late last night I heard about the 10.5.5 update of OSX and decided what the hell I’ll go and update. It all went smoothly enough I thought. Today / this morning I noticed MAMP had stopped working. I went oh bugger made a post or two about it and checked the MAMP site noticing that [...]

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• Carzone.ie - Trader Media - Car For Sale

Just few minutes ago, got an alert email that a new car has been advertised on the Cars For Sale section… Nothing weird about that as I do get quite a few of them every day, but it is my policy to check them out, making sure that all the images and descriptions are relevant to the ad itself. This [...]

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• MOTORCHECK.IE BLAMES UK IMPORTS FOR MAJOR ROLE IN 16% DROP IN IRISH USED

MOTORCHECK.IE BLAMES UK IMPORTS FOR MAJOR ROLE IN 16% DROP IN IRISH USED CAR SALESSecond Hand Car Imports Up 86% The Irish used car market has been hit badly with latest figures for July 2008 revealing a 16% drop in sales compared to the same period last year. This latest data compiled by Car History Check website, Motorcheck.ie reveals that [...]

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• VRT on imports inflated - definitely RIP-OFF

IMPORTERS OF second-hand cars to the Republic are missing out on millions of euro each year in vehicle registration tax (VRT) reductions, figures obtained from the Revenue Commissioners have revealed. Reductions in VRT are available to those who successfully appeal the level of VRT calculated by the Revenue Commissioners, which are based on what the Revenue [...]

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• FluffyLinkulator.com has gone live

Its with great pride I announce that www.fluffylinkulator.com has gone live. The team (James, 4 cans of Kick and the cat ) involved on this project took great satisifaction getting this one out the door. (probably cus its a non work site for a change) The site may be developed at a later date to include more [...]

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