The roles are Solution Architect, Service Engineer and SME’s. If you are interested to know more, or would like to be considered, please do drop me a line.

Barry

Barry

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Please feel free to drop me a line (or a CV) if you are interested.

Let me know what you customise any time you get a new machine or do a reinstall of your OS!

1. Spellchecker
I turned on “Always spellcheck before sending” in my Outlook options

2. Outlook Connector
I Installed the outlook connector for linkedin which you can get here: http://www.linkedin.com/outlook.

3. Turn off .docx
As lot of people still cannot (or will not) open the new “docx” format in MS Word, so I set my default in MS word to “.doc”. To do this, in MS Word, go to File – Save As, and then click the Tools option near the Save button, and then select Save Options.In the dialog that appears (screenshot 4) select Word 97-2003 document and click ok

4. Turn Off Transparency
If like me, you don’t like transparency effect of Windows 7 you can turn it off by going to control panel – appearance and personalisation – change windows glass colour and untick Enable transparency.

5. Recent File Lists
I put my recent files back in MS Office. By default, you have to click on Recent in the file menu to see them (red arrow). To cut this step out, click the checkbox beside Quickly access this number of Recent documents and select the number you would like to view (yellow arrow) and it will be like it was before.

Did you find this useful? Let me know what you customise any time you get a new machine or do a reinstall of your OS!

Global Average Connection Speeds

Ireland also performed excellently on internet security, with a miniscule percentage of “attack traffic” originating here, at 0.1%. The worst performing countries in this category were Myanmar (13%), the US (10%), Taiwan (9.1%) and Russia (7.7%). EU countries that did not fare well in this category were Italy and Romania, both at 2.5%.

(Graphic courtesy of Akamai)

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• The Air Travel Tax rate will be reduced to zero
• Introduction of a temporary second reduced rate of VAT of 9% (tourism)
• Halving of the lower rate of PRSI until end-2013 on jobs that pay up to €356 per week.
• The R&D tax credit legislation will be amended to enhance its accounting treatment flexibility
• 20,900 places will be made available for training, education and up-skilling
• National Internship Scheme
• 3rd Level/Springboard
• Back to Education Initiative
• Specific skills training (long-term)
• Specific skills training (short-term)
• Post Leaving Certificate (PLC)
• Removal of the numbers ceiling on non-Exchequer funded Higher Education posts.
• Short-term Visa Waiver Programme
• Energy Retrofit Programme
• €30 million Schools Capital programme
• Investment in Regional and Local Roads
• Investment in Smarter Travel Projects

The full proposal is here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0510/jobsinitiative.pdf

I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts. Is it right to add a levy to pension funds in this manner? Do you think the levy will be extended in 4 years time? Most importantly, do you think it will work and boost employment? Please feel free to have your say below!

I’m not sure how to interpret the graph in terms of the trends (for example, does the recent drop mean less people are interested in coming here, or does it mean that permits are now harder to obtain?). If you have any insight or thoughts,  I’d be interested in hearing them.