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2016

Dublin City Council CCTV Camera Costs

As part of Dublin CCTV Map, I requested a list of all traffic camera locations from Dublin City Council under the Freedom of Information Act. They aren’t all...

2015

Inside the #MarRef trenches

Following on from my #MarRef tweet dataset post, I thought of some additional things that might be cool to look at and I’m going to share them here.

I know how we can make money lads!

Ireland’s official postal code system launched today over at eircode.ie and it seems like its only fan is the Department of Communications themselves. We’ve ...

#MarRef tweets dataset

I was tracking #MarRef tweets over the past few weeks in the run up to the marriage referendum and showing some basic stats over on Pretty Negative. There’s ...

2014

You need balls to attain gender balance

Posts starting with a dictionary definition are always a mixed bag. Sometimes it’s the start of an impassioned plea about a long neglected corner of society ...

Unreliable words

I’ve never been very good with language. Slower reading speed than my peers, poor vocabulary, terrible pronunciation, and that’s just for English. However I’...

Irish Blood Transfusion Service’s illogical discrimination?

Something has always irked be about the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). Here’s what they have to say about banning men who have had sex with other me...

Thoughts on Jelly.co

Jelly.co has interested me the past day or two. It’s a social question/answer service like Quora but has nicer user experience on a smartphone and all questi...

2013

Apple squeezes every drop of that juicy profit margin.

So today Apple released the colourful iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c at an event that Apple said would ‘brighten everyone’s day’. The ‘everyone’ on the invitation w...

So who wants those 25 extra points and can we use them for gender balance?

The inferences from the statistics below are probably inaccurate and should be taken as pure speculation.

2012

Con artists working on national television.