Business: February 2007 Archives
In another one of the sidenote style posts .....
We've currently got about 4 positions open!!
That's mad!
It wasn't that long ago that we had 4 staff!
Anyway, we're looking for the following:
- Sales Staff
- Technical Support
- Php programming
I've mentioned the rather braindead way in which the Enterprise Ireland mailing lists are maintained in the past.
The subject has reared its head again and the moderators have done a "wonderful" job.
The fact that there are "moderators" annoys me enough already. It's damn annoying.
Their response is maddening:
*Moderator Note -- this topic has been discussed previously. The policy of allowing anonymous posting is unlikely to change. However, should anyone on this discussion list wish to raise this with the eBusiness Unit, Enterprise Ireland, they can be contacted at ebusiness@enterprise-ireland.com. No further posts on this specific subject will be released to the discussion.(my emphasis) This editing and censoring of posting bugs the hell out of me.
What other companies are there in the Irish market that offer electricity solutions to business?
The only one I've come across is Airtricity who promise a 10% saving.
Are there any others worth dealing with?
I was out of the country when the Quinn Group announced that they were taking over BUPA.
Personally I'm delighted.
I just hope that the government take action with respect to VHI's position, as it is untenable.
As a sidenote, I had tried to contact Vivas to sort out the company's health insurance plans, but they proved themselves to be completely inept.
I got an email from Pat Phelan a short time ago to let me know that their service is now available in Ireland.
Pop over to his site to get all the details.
I don't post about the company as much here as I used to, but this is worth mentioning :)
We've just slashed the pricing on domains for our current special offer:
- IE domains - €35 / year - €30 for transfers
- EU domains - €9.99 / year
- Co.uk domains €4 / year
While I was in LA last week John sent me details of the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007.
While there are some potentially positive aspects in the Bill some of the Bill's contents are, for lack of better word, simply crazy.
32.—(5) The regulations shall provide that persons who have registered ‘.ie’ domain names before the regulations came into operation are taken to have registered those names under the regulations.That is simply wrong. How can they possibly expect that to hold up in court? How can they expect anyone to take the .ie ccTLD seriously if they can retroactively apply the bill to the 70k+ IE domains already registered? They also seem to think that issues surrounding registration disputes are a matter for government:
(6) A person who contravenes subsection (2), or contravenes a regulation made under this section, is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €5,000.So that puts it in the realm of civil courts... lovely.. The Bill's provisions for the management of the IE namespace do offer some hope of industry involvement, but the bulk of the text does not strike me as particularly positive. If the government is concerned about the present and future of the IE namespace they may have been better advised to look at emulating other ccTLDs. By making explicit provisions for fines and other elements within the context of the Bill it sounds like they have no intention of allowing any freedom of governance. This is worrying.
