Archive for April, 2006

blog4jesus.com/.org – Did Jesus unconference?

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

There are two different Blog4jesus websites out there.

Blog 4 Jesus

Blog 4 Jesus

Hat tip to Churchsigngenerator.com

What was on the BBC the day you were born?

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

This was what was on the BBC for the day I was born. With a simple URL structure, you took can see what was on the beeb. Goes back to pre-WorldWarTwo. Eventually we may actuall be able to watch what was on on those dates too.

Microsoft make a reader for the NY Times? Wuh?

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Microsoft announces they’ve not yet made an application to read the New York Times. Like a web browser? WTF? “In the coming months”. So Microsoft gets shit from everyone about delaying and delaying products like Vista and now they press release about an application that is months away from release? Meanwhile anyone with Internet Explorer or Firefox can read the paper online anyway. Jarvis is dead right. Two steps back.

Colbert takes no prisoners

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Steven Colbert kicks ass at the Whitehouse Correspondents dinner. Just watched the video and it was fantasically cutting and took no prisoners. He rounded on the anaemic Whitehouse press too. Before he came on Bush was there with an impresonator interpreting what he was saying. REally quite entertaining but a blood shame that the only way the media gets their digs in is via a yearly joke-a-thon. Boingboing has links to the video of it.

Funniest videocasts ever – Ze Frank – The Show

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Or whatever you call online video things. Via David Winer. Ze Frank rocks the joint.

Ze Frank

Jon Stewart watch out. I was about to say give him his own TV show and replace some of the boring yokels. Nah, he doesn’t need prime time, he has the world and he’s unrestricted. Anyone on broadband can watch Ze and they should.

The only close match here is the widly entertaining Letter to America. LTA in daily 3 min vidcasts would be fantastic.

Go look at Ze Frank – The Show.

Broadband in Ireland – Coverage Map

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

HUGE thanks to John Handelaar for making this map.

There are about 1100 exchanges in Ireland. eircom has plans to enable around 400 plus. Eact numbers are not clear but it is believed not more than 450. They want the taxpayer to pay for all the rest to be enabled.

On the top is a map of the current situation with just under 400 exchanges enabled. Below it is the coverage map if all exchanges were enabled. Each yellow circle is where you can get broadband but even then the failure rate is 20%. 1 in 5 chance of not getting it. eircom doesn’t have plans to go much further than the first map.

broadband coverage in Ireland

Pay people to move from dialup to broadband?

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Over on the IIA blog they suggest an Internet Scrappage Scheme to move people to broadband from dialup. I don’t think such an idea makes much sense although since the DCMNR are just throwing money at the fibre rings project it wouldn’t surprise me if they went for it. Moving people to broadband from dialup won’t happen until the ISPs stop making money on dialup and right now they make collossal money on it. Read my comments on the IIA blog.

iPod Covers – Want one?

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

I have 3 iPod Video covers and 3 iPod Nano covers to give away if anyone wants one. You have to review them for me though and take some pics. I bought a few and want to know peoples opinion on them.

I’ve one now for my iPod Video and it seems good enough but not perfect.

My issues are that it’s not snug enough when fitted, as you an see by the view from the top:

iPod video Cover

Some of the screen is covered over too:

iPod video Cover

Although you can still watch video on it:

iPod video Cover

I’ll still use the cover as I use my iPod mostly for listening to music and even watching videos with it on isn’t that intrusive. The main thing though is that it’s very good for preventing scratches. Question is, would you pay a fiver for something like this?

Pictures of the Nano cover are on the way once my tester gets back to me.

Business Card idea

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Philipp Lenssen pointed to a guy who had business cards made that look like Google search boxes with his name in them. Not a bad idea but I don’t think Google would be too impressed with their logo on his cards. It might obviously confuse people as to who the guy works for.

Here’s my own idea for a business card: make it look like an ad on Google. Bit too restrictive though if you want to get everything into it but follow the same restrictions as a Google ad:

Damien mulley Business Card

I created this by actually making a Google Ad in my Adword account and doing a screencap of it.

Congrats to Marc Canter on his Irish Citizenship

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Well that’s what Irish Blogs is telling me. 🙂

Marc Canter Irish

I bet it’s the Football Association doing this so they can get his kids to play for Ireland. Makes sense. He’ll have to change his name to Marc O’Canter or Marc McCanter I think.