Colin Whittaker

The morning load rise as eirgrid call it is steeper than the evening one so storage lets the other generation catch up

Why in a country with our weather do we insist on having outdoor train stations

You should know that the US government was the guarantor for Ryanair's post 9/11 aircraft orders. This was done to keep the production line running.

Into triple digits, emergency stockpiles are being tapped

Kids in Halloween costumes making voting fun this morning

Anpost parcel notification showing zero effort to deliver

Super frustrating update from anpost where they don't actually tell you that they are not going to bother attempting to deliver and instead you have to go collect from the depot.

Irish people are excluded from the legal definition of Foreign under UK law

Since the president has zero actual power and is 99.99% ceremonial can we replace the debates/interviews with skill tests. Can they deliver a speech opening a civic centre in the rain?
Can they learn the names and faces of 50 visiting dignitaries in 10 minute, then recall them in a receiving line?

Currently an hour into an ESB outage for scheduled work but the entire house is running off solar. Zero disruption. The future is pretty cool

Attempting to enter politics at the presidential election would be like trying to learn hurling while playing in an all Ireland final. At this stage we have enough data to say it doesn't end well.

A good point - everyone trying to run for president now had 7 years to try and get about 20 people to like them, and are still falling at this hurdle. Our elections are not a surprise.

I'm a loser with deep social anxiety and even I reckon I could get 20 people to like me over the course of 7 years

Cold and Sunny days for the win

Anyone here able to ID this industrious spider. They built a web several meters wide across our driveway overnight.

I have received zero from any party/candidate in the last year since I updated moved my vote last year and gave my email/phone number.
I did have one email exchange with a member of the franchise office to validate that a set of suspected duplicate entries were all me and could be cleaned up

Humans really are the worst.

That is a pretty large bubble of people who need to flow through all the various bits of state institutions

My no Zuck rule is aging quite nicely

Every government TD I have contacted about it have parroted the dept of justices position that it is a good thing

Have a relative visiting this weekend who is a passionate GAA supporter so a lot of time has been spent watching live streams of various club games on clubber. It's a great use of the internet but my main takeaway is that GAA clubs need a broadband service optimised for broadcast

Actually I have to give Microsoft some credit here, word made it pretty painless

I was this many years old when I first managed to use a printer to address an envelope

Digital stamps are a neat way to avoid needing to go buy stamps but then comes the struggle of finding an actual postbox.

One of my favourite trips was taking the train from Toronto to Vancouver, it was a great way to experience the scale of Canada and the different provinces. The transitions between them were surprisingly crisp

The math is going to be the difference in off-peak vs std rates compared to the cost of shoving power in/out of the battery. There margin is small but then any amount of solar widens it. There is also a value in having the ability to run for at least a day with the grid down

I wonder does the traffic vary based on the counties playing and the availability of public transport.
If you don't have a leap card public transport in Dublin is also difficult to access given most people being cashless

With solar and battery it is possible to shift nearly 100% of demand into off-peak hours

It is all the more frustrating because the nation had flashes of brilliance. The folks who built Ardnacrusha would be amazed at the resources available today and appalled at our inability to get anything done.

It is all the more frustrating because the nation had flashes of brilliance. The folks who built Ardnacrusha would be amazed at the resources available today and appalled at our inability to get anything done.

It's like they never heard of the Streisand Effect. The amount of free media coverage this is giving them is priceless

The use of down ballot preferences to influence the result is a feature not a bug of RCV. It turns out that people are able to cope with it just fine.