Month: March 2005

Categories
politics

The italian legal system is terminally stupid

I doubt if Cicero would be impressed. OK, maybe the post title is a little OTT but I’ve posted in the past about the many weird and whacky rulings of Italian judges, most particularly relating to rape and sexual harassment. Well I picked this up from Reuters recently and it’s the mind-alterning icing on the italian legal hash cake. It transpires that a man who wishes to collect a pre-agreed payout of around 450,000 Euros from his insurance company has been told to come back in 14 months to determine the result of his case. The catch? He has 6 months to live and wants to use the money to ease his final days.. If this wasn’t bad enough it turns out that his claim goes back over a decade

when he was left paralyzed by a motorcycle accident. Confined to a wheelchair, he subsequently developed a lethal infection of the spine…

If this was a freak incident of italian legal woe then it would be more tolerable. However, in Italy it takes on average 3,041 days to obtain a definitive sentence in a civil case.

Categories
philosophy

Thoughts for the day

Three quotes from the emminently quotable and deeply insightful Richard Bach today. Very pertinent to my life at the moment.

  • “Avoid problems, and you’ll never be the one who overcame them.”
  • “It’s okay is a cosmic truth.”
  • “Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.”

Thank you R 🙂

Categories
Uncategorized

securist & securitytaskforce websites

Hi guys,
Just talked to WIT about the SecurIST and SecurityTaskForce websites.
They’re being difficult about this and demanding that the websites be done
by the end of next week. This is an urgent requirement. Therefore I’d ask
everybody to drop me a quick email (cc’ed to everybody else) telling me what
they’ve done and what remains to be done on each site. I have good reason to
believe that WIT will fail to pay or lower their fee if we don’t deliver
within this time.

Ciaran could you please send me the link for your latest version of the
SecurIST site. Brian & Willie, can you get some work done on the
SecurityTaskForce site as soon as Calmast is put to bed.

The animator has sent me our calmast animation but it has a problem with it.

They used the wrong logo. Still it’s pretty cool. See the results @
www.gaisan.com/sdempsey/flash/calmast.swf . I’m fixing it at the moment.

I’ve also placed a timesheet spreadsheet in this directory. I want you guys
to keep track of the hours that you work on the project (as I’m sure you’re
doing) and fill in this form when you’re finished. This is available @
http://www.gaisan.com/sdempsey/timesheet_template.xls The rate shown is 40
euro/hour. The actual rate will probably be between 30 & 40, depending on
whether we deliver what was promised on-time and get paid accordingly. Some
of these are fixed price projects and therefore I have to work towards a
budget which includes everything from animation & logo design to office
supplies etc.

I can’t emphasise enough that I need everybody to get in contact with me if
there’s a problem in meeting a deadline or meeting any requirement. We’ve
got 2 unhappy customers now and we’re going to charge them thousands for
websites. As the expression goes “that’s no way to run a railroad”. Most
disconcertinly, WIT have 2 other projects which are even larger that they
may offer to us but are using these delays as a bargaining position.
Therefore I’d urge everybody to work as hard as possible over the next few
days to ensure we get these projects in before the end of next week.

Sincerest regards,

…shane

Categories
Uncategorized

securist & securitytaskforce websites

Hi guys,
Just talked to WIT about the SecurIST and SecurityTaskForce websites.
They’re being difficult about this and demanding that the websites be done
by the end of next week. This is an urgent requirement. Therefore I’d ask
everybody to drop me a quick email (cc’ed to everybody else) telling me what
they’ve done and what remains to be done on each site. I have good reason to
believe that WIT will fail to pay or lower their fee if we don’t deliver
within this time.

Ciaran could you please send me the link for your latest version of the
SecurIST site. Brian & Willie, can you get some work done on the
SecurityTaskForce site as soon as Calmast is put to bed.

The animator has sent me our calmast animation but it has a problem with it.

They used the wrong logo. Still it’s pretty cool. See the results @
www.gaisan.com/sdempsey/flash/calmast.swf . I’m fixing it at the moment.

I’ve also placed a timesheet spreadsheet in this directory. I want you guys
to keep track of the hours that you work on the project (as I’m sure you’re
doing) and fill in this form when you’re finished. This is available @
http://www.gaisan.com/sdempsey/timesheet_template.xls The rate shown is 40
euro/hour. The actual rate will probably be between 30 & 40, depending on
whether we deliver what was promised on-time and get paid accordingly. Some
of these are fixed price projects and therefore I have to work towards a
budget which includes everything from animation & logo design to office
supplies etc.

I can’t emphasise enough that I need everybody to get in contact with me if
there’s a problem in meeting a deadline or meeting any requirement. We’ve
got 2 unhappy customers now and we’re going to charge them thousands for
websites. As the expression goes “that’s no way to run a railroad”. Most
disconcertinly, WIT have 2 other projects which are even larger that they
may offer to us but are using these delays as a bargaining position.
Therefore I’d urge everybody to work as hard as possible over the next few
days to ensure we get these projects in before the end of next week.

Sincerest regards,

…shane