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Election 2007: Watchdog probes text canvassing
Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:45
A number of candidates in today’s General Election have been sending out mobile phone texts urging people to vote for them.
Many of the recipients were not happy to be contacted in such a way.
The Data watchdog has said it has had a number of calls about [...]

At last, a judge who understands the Wikinderful age that we live in!
Record-editing judge scolded (Toronto Star)
(And no, he didn’t really do it on Wikipedia. But he’s well qualified for it now)

Greene’s Bookstore in Dublin closes tomorrow after over 160 years on Clare St in Dublin 2, near to the back of Trinity College, beside the National Gallery. I passed through it this morning and took a few other photos (included after the jump).
Greene’s was one of the first bookshops I visited on a regular [...]

Quite a few candidates have sent me their election materials in Irish (having noted, while reading the electoral register, that I go by an Irish-language name, first name and surname). I genuinely appreciated the thought and the effort (although of course as a long-time member of a party and a canvasser, I’m not really [...]