DISHPOINTER

I have added a new link to a satellite dish pointing site which uses a mashup of Google Maps to show you which direction to point your dish when you are installing it.  It gives you the altitude/elevation angle, azimuth, LNB skew and the distance to your chosen satellite from your location.  There is even a few iphone and android apps on the site which can help you.  This can be used anywhere in the world.  The link is in the Home Entertainment section in the column on the left of this page or you can click on it here DISHPOINTER .  I cannot guarantee it's accuracy, but I assume it will work o.k.  One of the cool features is that it gives you the true azimuth which you have to know true North to use, but it also gives you the magenetic azimuth so you can use a compass to find magnetic North and then work out the direction to point your dish.  Knowing all this in advance makes it a hell of alot easier to set up your dish especially when you are up an extension ladder.

Join the British Army and commit suicide while on Guard Duty

Can you believe this story?  4 soldiers "commit suicide" while on guard duty at the same British Army barracks over a period of seven years.  There has to be a serial killer involved in this somehow.  We'll never find out the truth because we can't handle the truth! More info here.

Row Row Row Your Boat!

The Welsh have arrived in Graiguenamanagh to start building boats, it could be the start of big things, who knows....maybe someone in Ireland will build a big ship like the Titanic some day!  Ah well, at least we finally have prove that Ireland is going backwards.  The South Koreans must be shaking in their boots.....or boats!

Ireland Election 2011 - The Count Is On

The Count is on and results are coming in over in the SHAMrock Republic.  You can follow the RTE website coverage for the Carlow-Kilkenny Constituency by clicking here .  Surprisingly, The BBC Parliament channel is re-broadcasting RTE Television live coverage so people in the UK can watch the election live on their television. 

Don't forget you can also follow the local radio stations coverage over the internet by clicking on the Radio Room tab above which will open up a new webpage where you can select the local radio station of your choice.

Corr............What a deal!

Jim Corr, the guitarist with the band the Corrs has agreed to ACC Bank's application for a judgment order against him over the loan to buy 97 acres of land in Co Kilkenny. The Commercial Court on Friday was told he had consented to the €1.4m summary judgment in favour of ACC Bank over an unpaid loan advanced to him and others in 2004 to buy the non-residential land at Goresbridge. Read the report in the Irish Independent by clicking here .