For over a week this month our local OmniTel wireless broadband was out of action (the 3rd major interruption of service in the last year). As usual I had to revert back to my 64Kbps ISDN line which is not as bad as analogue dial-up but it’s still a shock to the system! [...]
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Trying out Vodafone’s 3G service.
Posted in Ireland, Rathmore, broadband, eadestown, tagged 3g, nokia n70, omnitel, vodafone on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Rathmore Exchange to be broadband enabled…
Posted in Rathmore, eadestown, news, tagged broadband, Callidus, omnitel, Torque on April 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
For the last year and half I’ve been connecting to the internet via a wireless service provided by a local firm Torque Internet (recently taken over by Callidus Telecom). While the service has its ups and downs (the downs sometimes lasting 2 or 3 days at a time!) it’s a huge improvement on my [...]
5 Newtown Grove, Eadestown, Co. Kildare
Posted in eadestown, tagged map on August 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Link to Eadestown and District website …
What's happening (Twitter et. al.)- You: First sub-prime mortgage defaults, next sub-prime credit card defaults http://tinyurl.com/5ccfd2 (via Twitter)
- You: Spilling rain outside, no -6C frost tonight; no magic winter wonderland walk in the woods tomorrow; back to the wet and the muck. (via Twitter)
- You: A regular expression visualiser http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/ (via Twitter)
- You: @antgalvin I'll upload a picture when my broadband returns, too painful to do so under ISDN speeds (via Twitter)
- You: @antgalvin I last saw such "beards" in my teens, it obviously requires a heavy frost at the time the fungus fruits, we live & relearn (via Twitter)
- You: ..tree branches, the fungus fruiting threads are microscopic and can only be seen when covered in frost, known as Jack Frost's Beard. (via Twitter)
- You: The woods today glistened with hoarfrost covered spider webs, but more spectacular where the frosted "beards" of fungus that covered dead... (via Twitter)
- You: OS ETL tools Talend and Jitterbit compared http://tinyurl.com/5v6mpe (via Twitter)
- You: Got thru to Omnitel, problem local it seems, my local transmitter 127.19.20.1 aka Fr. Ryan's, needs rebooting,"Finding Fr Ryan" is the prob. (via Twitter)
- You: A Bullfinch pair feeding on the seedheads in the flowerbed outside my window. (via Twitter)
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