Sean Hynes

I read a few interesting news articles today… I’m not sure if there was just more ‘news’ or if I’m in just a more interested frame of mind.

Probably — no, definitely not important.

The most thought-provoking story was about the international summit on food and the plan to eliminate hunger (Reuters via Yahoo News, article by [...]

I had thought, up until this morning, that the Roman Catholic church was pretty much done with excommunication. I had assumed it to be outdated.

I was wrong. It is, apparently, back in fashion. Particularly for Women would-be Priests and the Bishops that try to ordain them.

So, in case anyone was wondering how to get themselves in [...]

It’s not often that an entertainment news article jumps out of me but Sharon Stone’s “karma” story is just one of those times.

From Yahoo News this morning (you can click here to read the Yahoo News article), Stone’s movies are facing a ban from a cinema chain because the owner is annoyed at the actress for [...]

I’ve been catching this story out of the corner of my eye over the past week or two.

Apparently, an apologetical missive from the mavens at Microsoft on how the most annoying aspects of the we-hope-it’s-soon-to-be-doomed Vista are actually features (that used to be a joke back from the 98 Second Edition days, “It’s not a bug: [...]

My speed test result from Speedy net (by Telkomsel).

This is my high speed internet supplier at a cost of about US$120.00 per month…

…good Grief, you can cut the irony with a knife.

Every day, they start out well fluffing around the 300k mark… ok, maybe not ‘well’… more middling and then just as you start to [...]

For the past few months (although it seems longer… like… forever), Bali has been bombarded by the recent VisitBritain campaign.

Visually pretty and fun (I’ve been back to Britain twice in the last ten years) but one thing grabs me by the… throat and shakes me every time: the damn theme song.

What nutter came up with [...]

A few years ago (maybe 5 years), I used the web as my own personal library of resources via search engines like Google & Yahoo..

If I or a friend were sick, I’d hit the search engines with a list of symptoms.

Prescription medicine? I’d check it out online and make sure I knew the side-effects and, when [...]