Being a young country, Ireland still has a lot of throw backs to the time of British Rule. The Constitution was written by a man who had a economic vision of self subsitance in Ireland, a vision which was only reveresed when Lemass came to power and famously decided things can’t get any worse, and so we should look towards trade and regular economics to supply our country. That was in 1958, 48 years ago.
Part of our young history means we have a lot of legal structures in place that date well before the inception of the Republic of Ireland. The Attorney General is in the middle of a project to remove all out dated and unrelevant laws from our books. Unfortunately, this means it will be no longer illegal to bait lions and tigers in Ireland. Among some of the laws that are in our books, but that do now apply to Ireland are:
- Deer Stealing (England)
- Militia pay (England)
- Westminster fish market
- Duties on cinnamon, etc.
I was aware of Google’s new featre (Search History) but I had only briefly looked at it once. This morning I decided to have another look and, to be honest I think it is fantastic.
Not only does it give you all the sites you have visited, and the option to search these sites, but also your usage statistics. It also alows you go to back to a specific day, and also tracks the music you listened to that day (possibly through the gtalk feature). How cool is that?
There is also a trends section which gives interesting info on your usage of the internet and search engines. On average, since February, Sunday is my quietest day with an average of 155 searches and wednesday is my busiest day with 1704 searchs in total. My busiest hour of the day is 1400 with 1066 searches since February and my quietest is 0800 (because this is when I get up). Amazingly all other hours in the day have searches: 0500 has 60 searches for example.
If you haven’t already tried it, give it a go. It really gives you an idea of your internet usage habits and is a real eye opener. I would never of guessed that I have used google during every hour of the day except 0800 since February.