Posts by AM in Brussels

New Oz road rules forbid touching mobes

Re: Isn't this the law in the Republic of Ireland?

The Republic of Ireland? Where's that? I know of no such country, state, or region with that name.

Or do you mean Ireland?

Article 4 of the Irish Constitution:

"The name of the State is Éire, or, in the English language, Ireland."

Ten... festival survival gadgets

Sleeping bag

That sleeping bag looked very much like something else when I saw the photo...

Microsoft Skype: How the VCs won and Ballmer overpaid

oh oh

I use Skype exclusivly for phone calls from home, and have done so for the past 5 or 6 years. I live in Belgium, but parents live in Ireland, with other family members all over the world. My wife the same. However, we don't use the windows or mac clients.

I have a Skype Dualphone which plugs in directly into the router. Or I use the Skype client for the iPhone or Android (my wifes and my mobile phones), so chat and video calls are irrelevant to me.

No Belgian telecoms operater can come close to matching the prices Skype offer. I pay about 6EUR for a package which consists of free landline calls to most of the EU, and a local number in Ireland. Calls to mobiles in an eastern European country are 24c/min.

I calculated that my savings are in the region of about 50EUR per month.

I really really hope that MS don't force me to change to someone else.

MEPs to US: Hands off our bank accounts

thanks to the Lisbon treaty

MEPs having the power to do this is because of the Treaty of Lisbon coming into force a few months ago.

So it's not all bad then, is it?

Nurse Lovelace gives hardened lag 55-hour stiffy

And?

No mention of computers or technology.

Slow news day?

UK.gov to send your holidays to sunny Manchester

@Martin:16.26

Eire? No such place. Unless you are speaking in Irish. In the English language, the name of the place is Ireland.

Also, in case you aren't already aware, there will be border checks between NI and GB. But there won't be border checks between NI and Ireland. So your arguement doesn't really stand up on that particular instance.