If anybody is looking for some fresh air and 2.5hrs of exercise.... then you'll get great value out of the walk over the top of Maulin, this assumes that you are based in Dublin, Ireland.
To get there, drive south from Dublin to Enniskerry, go through Enniskerry and follow the signs for Powerscourt waterfall. Go past the waterfall entrance and park in the Crone Wood Carpark about 2km later.
The easiest route is to follow the forest path to the left... just saty on this track and you will rise up and follow the ridge towards the Powerscourt waterfall.
Follow this track all the way to the stone wall and then turn right... now follow this easy track to the top of Maulin and savour the great views north to Lambay Island or east Greystones (it's great for the kids geography lessons!).
From the summit, carry on and descend to the north west. At the forest line, you'll find a gate and stile. Just follow the most used looking forest tracks until you find yourself back at the car park.
It's about 7km long and took us 3:10min although we did stop for lunch. Had 6yr, 8yr and 11yr hikers with us and all went well.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Bruno, the movie is just pathetic
Time for a rant.... I get what Sacha Baron Cohen was trying to do with the movie Bruno but the sad fact is, when the subject matter (z-lister celebrity culture) is so pathetic to start with then it's difficult to find it funny.
I went to see the movie last night and came away wishing I hadn't bothered
I went to see the movie last night and came away wishing I hadn't bothered
Friday, April 24, 2009
Newspaper survival
If newspapers are going to survive then they need to stop fixing the wrong problem.
The Chicago Tribune is bankrupt, Denver's Rocky Mountain News has closed and now it looks like the Boston Globe is going down the tubes.
Newspapers have wasted a huge amount of energy whining about Google stealing their content - it's time they woke up and realized that this isn't the problem.
Google (and others) are stealing their advertisers - this is the real problem.
The online advertising products currently being offered by Newspapers are garbage. When they wake up and fix this problem then their futures will look a lot brighter.
Newspaper's need to put aside all the self-pitying, high-brow journalistic speak and focus on the fact that newspapers have only every survived through the sale of advertising.....
.... come on guys, wake up!
The Chicago Tribune is bankrupt, Denver's Rocky Mountain News has closed and now it looks like the Boston Globe is going down the tubes.
Newspapers have wasted a huge amount of energy whining about Google stealing their content - it's time they woke up and realized that this isn't the problem.
Google (and others) are stealing their advertisers - this is the real problem.
The online advertising products currently being offered by Newspapers are garbage. When they wake up and fix this problem then their futures will look a lot brighter.
Newspaper's need to put aside all the self-pitying, high-brow journalistic speak and focus on the fact that newspapers have only every survived through the sale of advertising.....
.... come on guys, wake up!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bad Connections on a RavenHeat Boiler
Just in case you happen to own a RavenHeat CSI 85T combination, condensing boiler..
And just in case it happens to play up and becomes intermittent..
And just in case the heating engineer tells you that the control board is faulty and the unit isn't worth repairing...
... before you replace the whole unit at a cost of €1,000
Have a look at the overheat sensor on the righthand size of the unit (the one with the yellow wires). If the sensor looks like it is damp then it could just be that you have a dirty connection. The sensor wires which can be cleaned and gets the unit working again... at a saving of €1,000
And just in case it happens to play up and becomes intermittent..
And just in case the heating engineer tells you that the control board is faulty and the unit isn't worth repairing...
... before you replace the whole unit at a cost of €1,000
Have a look at the overheat sensor on the righthand size of the unit (the one with the yellow wires). If the sensor looks like it is damp then it could just be that you have a dirty connection. The sensor wires which can be cleaned and gets the unit working again... at a saving of €1,000
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Shame on the Irish Government
As the recession bites the Irish Government will inject €7bn into the Irish Banking system. The government will save €7m by cutting back on the education of special needs children. Reducing the future hopes for these children and their parents is a national disgrace, perhaps the government should think about redirecting €7m of the €7bn from the fat cat bankers.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Average ESB employee wage
In September 2008 the Irish Government gave perission to the ESB (the Electricity Supply Board) to raise the price of their consumer electricity charge by 17%. The raise was required due to increased fuel charges, or so the argument went.
You'd have to wonder if the Irish Government have got their finger on the pulse (or even have fingers for that matter) when you learn that the average ESB employee salary is a shocking €92,000. The average wage in Ireland is less than €40,000!
It get's worse, it seems the average wage in one particular power station (Poolebeg) is €142,000
To quote a welll heard phrase in modern Ireland, "ah sure, I'm worth it" - what a nonsense.
You'd have to wonder if the Irish Government have got their finger on the pulse (or even have fingers for that matter) when you learn that the average ESB employee salary is a shocking €92,000. The average wage in Ireland is less than €40,000!
It get's worse, it seems the average wage in one particular power station (Poolebeg) is €142,000
To quote a welll heard phrase in modern Ireland, "ah sure, I'm worth it" - what a nonsense.
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