http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0714/eircom.html

In actual fact redirecting internet traffic to a major Internet Service Provider (ISP) of a country in order to down the system is really a form of terrorism – the new cyber form.

South Korea had this issue a few weeks ago and blamed the North Korea ….

So who will Eircom blame ? The English or their inadaquate technical team ?

and that’s All in a day

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I then read in the Irish Independent over lunch today that eircom had a technical problem on one of their servers over the last few nights…

 emmmm sounds like their DNS Server was hacked to me …..

Well that’s ‘all in a day’ I suppose

The worst nuclear power plant ‘accident’ in the world which effect the world – what were the powers that be at the top of the Soviet Union thinking ? 

For some reason they thought that they were so great that they could build the only nuclear power plant with no protective inner core in the world. Then when the nuclear power rods were very close to the end of their useful life decided to ‘demand’ a test so dangerous that they got in experienced workers (soviet puppets) to carry it out while a whole city Pripyat Ukraine slept. To make matters worse hid the whole incident from the world for 2 days only to be caught out by increased radioactive readings all over the world.

This was a level 7 in the International Nuclear Event Scale while Windscale was only a level 4.

 http://www.themeter.net/ines_e.htm

http://www-ns.iaea.org/tech-areas/emergency/ines.htm

I’m not surprised the ‘Soviet Union’ broke down within a couple of decades. – my disgust is that the rest of the world didn’t accommodate the countires of the former ‘Soviet Union’ break free alot earlier.

Below are a few links about this horrible incident which will be around to haunt us till extinction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/3426/

A video worth playing (forget about the music)

http://video.canadiancontent.net/18-consumed-a-video-from-the-zone-of-chernobyl.html

Chernobyl Children’s Project

http://www.chernobyl-international.com/

and that’s All in a (sad) day …..

Ever been to a concert @ 10am in the morning and walk out at 11:30am memorised ?!?

Well I just have with their new concept in High Def 3D that is amazing and compared with Jaws 3D is seriously eons ahead.

I stand to be corrected but I think some 60mics were used and apart from 2 Live shows being filmed they also did 2 shows with no audiences so 3D Digital Cameras could capture the closeups.

Believe me the whole production is fabulous plus you see more then if you were at the actual concert and the graphics jump out at you without ruining the musical content/

Check http://www.u23dmovie.com/ 

 If its in your area go and you’ll know what I mean

and that’s All in a day

Remember that old faithful game Monopoly well there’s a New World Edition coming out and you have a chance to vote for your city plus 9 others every day to make sure it’s included.

 You also can vote to nominate a city not including as a bonus square !?!

 Lots of Fun you may sarcastically think until you see where your city is coming then the National Pride comes out I can tell you.

Whats the catch – All you have to do is register…..

 16 Days to go and Canada is in the lead plus I’ve seen Ireland drop from 10th – 20th place in 2 weeks..

 Time to get voting

http://www.monopolyworldvote.com/en_IE/world/leaders

and that’s All in a day

Can you believe it i awoke to hear that ‘Lego’ is 50 today …..

I distinctly remember annoying my poor mother for those little box sets when I was a child. Little did I realise how expensive they actually were but I think ‘Lego’ helped me and has helped hundreds of millions i not billions of not just children but adults alike, to learn hand to eye coordnation and lateral thinking.

Mind you I still have problems making the dam things

Here is the main offical info onthe brick supplied by www.lego.com

‘It was sold in 1949, and was called an Automatic Binding Brick. Like the modern LEGO bricks in your collection, this brick had studs which could be used to connect the top of one brick to the bottom of another. However, because the Automatic Binding Brick was hollow, constructions made with these bricks were a little unstable. This inspired the inventor of the LEGO brick, Godtfred Kirk Kristiansen, to spend night and day trying to figure out how to give LEGO bricks more grip power. Eventually he came up with a brilliant idea — tubes! The newly redesigned LEGO brick was born and introduced to the toy market in 1958. Since then, more than 2500 different LEGO elements have been designed, and over 327 billion LEGO elements have been produced by our factories! ‘

 And in true stye they have a 50th Bitrhday kit out now called ‘Town Plan 10184′ which

http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=10184&cn=245&d=100

 Wkik’s take on lego is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego

There is a even ‘Lego’ Brick Film site at http://www.brickfilms.com/

A good ‘Lego’ Blog http://www.brothers-brick.com/

50th Birthday News From the user group http://www.lugnet.com/

and that’s All in a day

(ps  Thanks Mum I never told Dad after you brought me a small set in Jean Pauls out of the pools money you won over 30yrs ago ;)  x)

This is the offical Cebu Provine web site http://www.cebu.gov.ph/

Wiki has some Cebu Province facts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu

 The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (local prison) with 1500 inmates have to dance around 5-8 hrs a day for ‘exercise’

 The Security Consultant (govener) Byron Garcia  says they really like it and some of them think of him as god.

Here are some videos of the inmates dacing from the goveners’ own youtube page http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=byronfgarcia

Finally www.4od.com has a great documentary on the whole affair.

I wonder if he’s heard of line-dancing !?!?!

Don’t say you haven’t been warned !?!?!?!

and that’s All in a day

This is a video of the New Frontier casino being imploded in a amazing flurry of fireworks and half a ton of explosives om Tuesday 13th November 2007.

The New Frontier was the second property ever to open on the Las Vegas Strip and host to Elvis’ debut in the city in spring 1956.

 Good old wiki has so great information on this old casino

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Frontier_Hotel_and_Casino

Bodog Nation for an excellent piece on the place

http://nation.bodoglife.com/casino-gambling-news/death-of-the-frontier-780379.html

It’s demolition is making way for a $8billion Israeli funded mega resort due in 2011.

Here’s that amazing video

and that’s All in a day

Well it’s that no wonder Ms Julia Kushnir wept as this the out of court settlement was agreed (Estimated at €500k). Apart from being the largest lible settlement in Ireland  people fail to understand that in the Ukraine this is the equivalent of receiving €5 Million plus - given that a house prices and practically everything else is over 10 times cheaper then Ireland over there. 

Check out property http://www.uaproperty.com/property_1149.html 

Julia could now run for very high office in the Ukraine or just live a life of luxury fading out of the limelight as quick as she grabbed it. 

To be honest I hope that this windfall brings apart from anything, great happiness as this is more then any Ukrainian could dream of and is will teach the dirty press not to jump to unfounded conclusions. 

Victory was not for Julia Kushnir but for everyone else whose victimized by the press. 

This time it wasn’t just the tabloids but also the broadsheets when she was the ‘only survivor’ of a fatal crash in Russia with a disgraced Irish Politician Liam Lawlor, while acting as a translator only.

Wiki on Liam Lawlor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Lawlor

The four Irish Newspapers were – The Sunday World, Sunday Independent, Sunday Tribune and the Irish Independent – while the other was the Irish Edition of the Sunday Mirror. The Exact Damages were not disclosed in court however it is ‘understood’ that each of them paid out €100k.

Irish Times Coverage http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/1107/1194222776930.html 

RTE Television Coverage http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1106/lawlorl.html

Finally in respect to Lawlor family I hope this will give them some relief that his name has been cleared inadvertently of wrong doing, on this occasion.

 and that’s All in a day

So what hapened – basically the old baby used an old system at the beginning of the nuclear age where they didn’t pay much heed to provide adaquate accurate temperature measuring systems.

So not surprisingly one lovely brisk October morning a techie (not this one) was heating up the reactor however the instrumentation in the control room was so bad everyone actually thought the core was cooling instead of heating up. So to get a boost of temperature they withdrew the control rods which caused a nice can of lithium and magnesium to busrt and ignite the uranium and graphite to around 1300 degree centigrade which shot blue and black flames and smoke up the those beautiful chimmeys and into to our lovely atmosphere.

A great link from the news media centre of Lakestay.co.uk with great pics of the old girl

 http://www.lakestay.co.uk/1957.htm 

Plus my fav wikipedia has a good bit of information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

If things weren’t bad enough now it turns out that they even lied about how much radiation got out and now estimate it was double the amount they told us 50 years ago. Not to worry I reckon BNFL (British Nuclear Fuel) thought there is no way another Nuclear Plant would make such a bollox of setting fire to the most dangerous substance known to man and releasing it into the atmosphere (Little did they know). Sure weren’t they lucky the wind was blowing Northwest – apart from irradiating themselves they only hit northern European countires and it only got as far as Belarus (only a teaser for what was to follow).

I’m sure the board were saying wasn’t it lucky we didn’t hit the bloody black micks (slag for the Irish) or we would have had to give them the rest of the Island back.

Have a nice read from the BBC News  - well done guys – ‘honesty is the best policy’

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7030536.stm

Now we should really give poor BNFL a break why they only made £2.3 Billion Sterling (approx €3.3 Billion Euro) for one year to March 2007 and if they had told the truth at the time you never know what would have happened

See the BNFL website for a few more ‘trusting’ facts and figures

http://www.bnfl.com/

Oh just in case you were wondering the can of lithium and magnesium can was doing in the reactor – it was to make the nuclear components the  for the Hydrogen Bomb of all things and wouldn’t regularly be there – I’m sure we believe that !!!!

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0824719.html

Also to make total fools of the world population they decided to rename the whole plant Sellafield so we are all safe now and it never happned

http://www.sellafieldsites.com/ 

and that’s all in a day