Damien Mulley

Very useful guide on how to register to vote by Simon McGarr.

Author William Gibson describes the eyes of Molly, one of his best characters.

Ze Frank talks about the Jon Benet brand. Scary. The guy is a genius at observation.

Piracy blamed for company being shit at business. Terrorism funded by piracy mentioned too. Not by super rich dictators in Oil economy countries. Oh no.

Snakes on a radio! Anthony was on the Beeb about Snakes on a flying thing.

Speaking of reptiles. Snakebite, a new BitTorrent server. Seems very easy to use.

I think this may be from Poland. Very amateur gore action video. It’s hilarious and at times makes you hurt. Here’s Bagman:

Paige doesn’t think she’s worthy to be a blogger and wants to stop. In her words:

I hope that you will excuse my discontinuing as a blogger. I genuinely don’t feel worthy of the description owing to my lack of original talent and the selfish (childish) reason that I started blogging. I will continue to check out your brilliant posts and wish you all continued success.

Paige , if you’ve never read her, is a wonderfully talented writer despite her saying she isn’t. It’d be a real shame if she were to go. Too many greats are leaving. Where’s Fiona these days? Daddy Gavin is gone too. (Despite him being younger than me he was like one of the wise fathers of Irish blogging when I started and so many started due to his encouragement too.) If you’ve read Paige or even if not, how about popping over to her blog and signing the comments and ask her to stay if you think she should but at least wish her well. We’re losing too many talented people these days.

If you wanted to go that little bit extra you could blog about her on your blog and explain why you like her writing (if you do) so that at least she gets a proper send off. Gavin, you going to have a going away party too?

The Hill is a new Washington D.C. documentary. Looks promising enough. It will never get over to this side of the Atlantic. I’d appreciate if someone could Tivo it. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

The DCMNR/ComReg event on September 21st:

0845 Mr Noel Dempsey TD opens the event.
0910 Prof Peter Cochrane Co-Founder and Chief Technologist of Concept Labs
0940 David Jesse, MD of eBay Ireland
1000 Martin Cronin, Forfas
1020 Coffee

1040 Podcasting – Increasing access to 3rd level education. Sligo IT
1100 Infotainment Technology, Dylan Collins, CEO DemonWare
1130 Halo Room, Paul Bradley, HP
1200 Gerry Fahy, TIF, “Ensuring Broadband Ireland”
1220 Summary/Discussion/Bunfight
1250 Closing Address. Ms Isolde Goggin, ComReg
1300 Lunch

Facilitator: Miriam O’Callaghan

Update to update: Date set to September 30th. Sorry to everyone who can’t make it but 30th suits more.

Update: Seems a few of those that want to go are unavailable for the 23rd. Would the 30th suit? It’s the usual case though that one date will never suit everyone. Can people leave a comment below?

Barcamp Ireland will be held in Webworks Cork on Sept 23rd. Myself, Conor O’Neill and Walter Higgins will be organising it from the Cork side. Pleae stay tuned to the BarCamp Ireland Wiki.

another is returning home. Branedy is off to Dublin for his new job. But at least we have some kind of balance as another Cork son is returning soon. Best of luck in Dublin Branedy. Will we only see you blog on weekends now? You got the passport, the Munster Jersey, the Cork GAA top, the Barry’s tea and the Peoples Republic of Cork T-Shirt?

New blogs on the block or at least new to me.

First up is Gillian Morrison’s blog. Gillian is a film producer living in Cork. It’s a nice blog and it even talks about the movie industry here in Cork. Yes, it exists.

Then we have Mise’s blog. Mise lives between Cork and the United Arab Emirates. Go read the blog for more details.

John McWilliam’s photo blog. You may have seen it before but have another gander. Photo bloggers in Ireland are gifted.

Lastly today is Davy McDonald’s blog. Davy is a graphic designer based up North. Check out his blog for rants and odes to the world of graphic design and look up his past work. Brilliant posters. Davy can design the poster for the next blog awards in February. 🙂 Maybe I should ask first?

Denise Heffernan points out there’s a Starbucks in Cork now. To the airport we go!

Keith asks could the NTL/Chorus MMDS frequencies be used for wireless broadband provisioning?

I get knocked down and I get back up again. The Chumby sounds like a fun idea. An alarm clock that’s a pc.

Amazing Art. Looks like a giant buddha made from used tyres. Art can be created from anything. Genius.

911 dispatcher acts the bollox. Suggests he sends the cops out to sort out a mother’s unruly kid.

Wikipedia is gay and sex obsessed. Well according to these stats anyway.

Parents want to teach son lesson about borrowing car, he’s beaten to death on the way to jail. This is really sad.

Geek humour.

Podzinger has added some new features. Audio and video searches now and a “Zing Index”. Let’s hope KFC doesn’t have prior art.

O2 broadband to deliver peak rate speeds from 3.6 up to 14.4 megabits per second. No prices, no packages and no actual date.