New Technology Is Old Hat

So Jennifer O'Connell in The Sunday Business Post laments the the death of the 'old fashioned landline phone', how she has fallen out of love with the old fashioned phone call.

She finds it ironic that in an age of constant always on communications, there is no place for the phone.

What desert island has she been living on?

The phone is a tool to communicate, people still talk - on their mobile PHONE - that fact that it is not tethered to a piece of copper wire is irrelevant.

When Bell introduced the phone it didn't have a dialler, and when touch tone was introduced, there was no uproar in society losing its grip on the evolutionary ladder.

Oh and by the way a four year old doesn't know that one can see one's daddy whilst using Skype - she just wants to see her daddy.

The only irony is that she is using an old fashioned print medium to criticise technology.

Being a Ciotog and all that

So the iPhone 4 has an apparent problem.

I say apparent as if you are in Cupertino there is none, but if you are left handed there is one.

I thought the days of descrimination against 'ciotogs' went out with the Ark, M'Asal Beag Dubh and Peig.

Apparently not.

With great respect to The Fake Steve Jobs, There is no spoon

New Labour

Could Eamonn Gilmore stand up and be counted please.

Oh you have been.

May as well enjoy it then.

Ice Cream and all that

With summer approaching and temperatures supposedly increasing - is there any chance that whoever makes the ice creams of the world - I presume Unilever - can come out with an ice cream that is exactly that - ice cream.

None of this 'double choc nutty fruitfest special edition' - it's ice-cream I want - not a chocolate bar.

Sometimes mixing things together can turn into something wonderful, eg iPod and a Phone - hey presto! With a development store and here's a new market and hours of enjoyment.

On other times, the integration of a vice activated response on a handsfree car kit that dials a banana when you want the local pizza house, seems like a good idea but is lost in translation.

So please, raspberry ripple and strawberry swirl are fine - but if I want to indulge I will go to Ben and Jerry, but not when I want little lift when walking down the street.

Thierry Henri and all that

Isn't it a touch ironic that Thierry Henri's team didin't make it to the Champion's league Final as a result of one of his teammates goals was dis-allowed because of handball.

Ah well...