Archive for June, 2007
What’s in a name?
The Irish national broadcaster RTE has this story on their website this morning…
The wrong prisoner was let out of one of Ireland’s main prisons yesterday because he had the same name as another prisoner who was due for release. It seems that there were two Mark Kennys in the prison, one serving a short sentence […]Whither the warranty? (or ebuyer beware).
The ever vigilant “The Register” carries a story today about on-line retail E-Buyer which appears to have muddled up the batch numbers on hard-drives they bought for resale and hard-drives that were for OEM (original equipment manufacturer) installations. The full story can be found here, on el Reg.
The nub of the issue is that the […]Dude, where’s my lake?
This isn’t strictly speaking an IQ trainwreck but it highlights how information, even about things which look pretty darned permanent, can age and become inaccurate and poor quality quite quickly.
Again, it is from the pages of The Register… apparently the Chilean’s have lost a lake. Now, car keys I can understand….
However, this echoes stories which […]TB or not TB (with apologies to Shakespeare)
The Irish Examiner newspaper today carried this story about an American lawyer who was let back into the US despite being red-flagged as a health risk.
It would seem that he had acquired a particularly nasty drug-resistant form of Tuberculosis - a diagnosis which was confirmed in Europe where he was travelling. He was advised not […]
