Irish Rail have installed automated ticket machines throughout the network. The interface can be displayed in multiple languages. One day, while sheltering from the rain at the station, I decided to look at the translated interface. Early in my career I worked in localisation and we checked the translated software displayed and worked correctly when […]
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Eating KFC affects your spelling
When I worked in East Point Business Park I noticed that Smoking impacts dexterity, for Oracle employees anyway. From a recent visit to the Blanchardstown Centre I saw an embarrassing attempt at a “green stance” by KFC. There are a few bins outside the restaurant with a brutal spelling error on them. The bins say: […]
Pot. Kettle. Dark colour.
We are all very familiar with the bogus used clothes collectors that drive by in the early hours to grab the bags that have been left out in response to their regular never ending leaflet drops. A recent leaflet for one such collection had the gall to ask people not to put the bags out […]
No More Babys
Back in January a Californian woman gave birth to 8 babies. She already had 6 children. Not surprisingly there was quite a reaction to this, with the doctor being investigated and the woman’s grandparents calling her “absolutely irresponsible” and her behaviour “unconscionable“. The photo here, from the Irish Times, shows a local resident protesting outside […]
Road to nowhere
Residents with Fingal County Council as their local authority may know about their often bad road design and brutal signage. The Roads Department isn’t good at implementing pedestrian or cyclist facilities in thoughtful ways. There is a gem of an example on Blanchardstown Road South, behind Power City. There is a nice footpath and off-road […]
Crooked ruler at Fingal County Council
Looking at the pedestrian crossing points at a nearby roundabout it looks like the Traffic Engineers at Fingal County Council have a wonky ruler. The dished parts of the pavement on either side don’t even nearly line up. Even a kid would draw a more straight line freehand. This was designed by the department whose […]