I normally don’t read the trash “paper” that is the Daily Mail, however I was browsing the News & Media forum on Boards.ie and came across this interesting Daily Mail story regarding a father who was abused by other parents because he was taking pictuires of his two children while in the park.
While there is no laws restricting a member of the public from taking photos in a public place it seems some people seem to believe they have the right to restrict somebody from taking pictures of their own children because they fear he or she will take photos of their children.
Below is a bit from the story:
He said: ‘The children wanted to go on an inflatable slide and I started taking photos of them having a good time. Moments later the woman running the slide told me to stop.
‘When I asked why, she told me I could not take pictures of other people’s children. I explained I was only interested in taking photos of my own children and pointed out that this was taking place in a public park.
‘I showed her the photos I had taken to prove my point. Then another woman joined in and said her child was also on the slide and did not want me taking pictures of the youngster.
‘I repeated that the only people being photographed were my own children. She said I could be taking pictures of just any child to put on the internet and called me a pervert. We immediately left the show.’
Complete madness if you ask me!
So myself and the fiancee recently moved into our new house and in a effort to save money in these hard times and help the environment I decided energy saving lightbulbs were the best way forward for the majority of the house.
While initially I would have loved to get solar panels the initial outlay cost was too great so I had to abandon the idea, anyway I looked into other methods to help save money and monitor costs.
One solution was a Efergy Electricity monitor, it cost me about 60e and took about 5min to setup with no wiring etc. I’ve been using it about a week now and I have to see its interesting to see what everything uses.
for example:
1 60W CFL bulb uses 3 times less power then a 40W standard bulb or I’ve found the 3 spotlights in our downstairs hallway uses more power then my computer (monitor, computer unit and 4 external drives combined).
Its a cheap and easy way to watch what you use and I’d recommend it to anyone, you’d be surprised what everything uses.
So I got my username and password from UTV and setup my ADSL router when I got home but because I’m moving into a new house I haven’t had much spare time on the net lately.
All is well and line is operating pretty good, pings are not as good as what I got with my old BT Business line or NTL 3MB service and of course as its a 2MB line its not as good as my old 3MB NTL connection but its a sight better then the 1MB connection I’ve been using the past 2 months on a temp basis.
Speed tests results ok too (see above), another benefit over other DSL providers is when using UTV’s Northern Ireland proxy server on a UTV connection you can use BBC iPlayer which is very handy 
