Archive for March, 2010

NASRUG meet with IrishRail

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

NASRUG met with IrishRail at the start of last week to discuss various issues on the rail service from Naas and Sallins station. Full minutes are below.

Meeting Report
NASRUG met with Irish Rail on Monday 25th March.
Present for NASRUG: James Lawless, John Cunniffe, Conor McGarry
Present for Irish Rail: Myles McHugh
1. Timetable
JL queried whether a new timetable [...]

“Excellent in parts”..

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

According to wikipedia the phrase “curate’s egg” refers to something that is partly good and partly bad, but as a result is entirely spoiled. Modern usage has tended to change this to mean something having a mix of good and bad qualities. I am still veering between the two definitions in the context of this [...]

Bio Energy ; Once bitten, twice shy

Friday, March 12th, 2010

There has been much furore over the past few days about a proposal to construct a bio-energy, power generation plant at Kerdiffstown (Sallins) to be accessed via the Monread road.

 In brief the plant would ‘compost’ organic waste materials to produce an effluent gas which would then be converted to power / electricity. This is a [...]

Ireland’s university town (aka Maynooth)

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

I was in N.U.I. Maynooth earlier this week, where I gave a guest lecture on social media. The lecture title was ’socialnomics’ and I focused on technology and particular the web was changing the world and how it could and should be used by organisations. I can share the slides with [...]