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Limerick Animal Welfare - These are great guys - they have even launched a blog! - welcome to the blogosphere !

Limerick Animal Welfare was founded in 1983 to care for unwanted and abandoned animals in the Limerick area. We have rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed many thousands of neglected cats and dogs. We are so proud that after almost a quarter century in operation, our charity continues to flourish. We feel there are two keys to our success. We have an amazing group of hard-working volunteers, who give so freely of their time and energies for the sake of the animals. We also owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the people of Limerick, who have supported us unstintingly over the years.

Im off on my holidays on what is to be my first trip to Asia - Malaysia to be exact. Photos and more when I get back…wish me luck…i’m going alone - but I am meeting some Malay friends at some stage

According to a reader and commenter on johnmryan.com, 3 Ireland are preventing it’s mobile phone customers from accessing johnmryan.com on their mobile phones. This is something I cannot confirm for myself, as I am no longer a three customer, so if anyone else can confirm this for me?

There has been a somewhat heated and ongoing commenting session (for the lack of a better word) on one of my posts in which I briefly mentioned what people will miss if they switch to 3 Ireland. Although the post is a short post, readers of my blog have been using it as a somewhat discussion forum for discussing 3 Ireland. Some of 3 Irelands customers are sharing their views on the mobile phone network, there are a few positive, with the biggest comments relating to the customer care (or lack thereof) as well as restrictive and controlled internet access.

The post and 40 comments are here.

Is free speech gone out the window?

I got this comment today - somewhat different than the usual spam…

hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments ,
I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of spam by 30-50% .In return Id like to ask you to put a link to my site on the index page of your site. The link will be small and your visitors will hardly notice it , its just done for higher rankings in search engines. Contact me icq (number removed) or write me E-mailREMOVED@yahoo.com , i will give you my site url and you will give me yours if you are interested. thank you

Today I decided, ‘why not give another search company a chance’, I only use Google, because I am so familiar with it, and to change search providers would be an inconvenience, so I said today I will change my default provider to ‘Live Search’. So I went into internet explorer and changed my settings to Live search, and clicked ok, but for some reason it continued using Google and ignored my request, then one of those little pop up balloons informed me that Google had blocked my request, and this window ( see above) popped up. Now, as you know many people know how to use the internet, but there a majority of users who are terrified of these requests and will just click ok, in the fear that if they change a setting there PC will explode and they will be picking bits of computer of their face for the next year.

Maybe its time people look at other search engines and what they offer – if only to give them a chance, before Google owns everything? The new ask.com looks good, anyone interested in trying it out?

I have to say this sounds pretty interesting on October 15th is to be Blog Action Day where bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. That is the issue that is our environment. It is a very interesting idea, and I will be very interested to see some Irish Bloggers participate. Read more…

Shai did not tag me ( i dont know her) but here goes

1) When it comes to social situations “Fake Nice” is something that drives me crazy, people who try to come across as super nice and friendly, but you know that this is a façade, and that their real personality is not something you want to see.

2) I love to travel – but to date have only been to a handful of places, New York, Brussels, Paris, London.

3) Internet technologies is my real passion.

4) I am a news reader on a local radio station.

5) The smell of fish makes my physically ill – but I can eat prawns and tuna….

6) I love US sitcoms – especially the really crappy ones.

7) I know some people who read this site and think I don’t know!

I want to eventually run my own company.

Alas, it seems to be ture