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Stars – Calendar Girl – Lyrics

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Listened to the Stars album “Set Yourself On Fire”. Thought the first two tracks were good but the rest of the album descended into “blah blah blah” noise fairly fast. People compared them to Arcade Fire, nah, don’t think so. Anyway, Joe reminded me to listen to the last track again, called Calendar Girl. That could actually be the best track on the album. Good choice sir. Kind of has a dark twist to it too.

If I am lost for a day; try and find me
But if I don’t come back, then I won’t look behind me
All of the things that I thought were so easy
Just got harder and harder each day
December is the darkest and June is the light but this empty bedroom won’t make anything right
While out on the landing a friend I forgot to send home
Who waits up for me all through the night

Calendar girl whos in love with the world Stay alive
Calendar Girl whos in love with the world Stay alive

I dreamed I was dying; as I so often do
And when I awoke I was sure it was true
I ran to the window; threw my head to the sky
And said whoever is up there,please don’t let me die
But I can’t live forever,I can’t always breath
One day I’ll be sand on a beach by a sea
The pages keep turning, I’ll mark off each day with a cross
And I’ll laugh about all that we’ve lost

Calendar Girl who is lost to the world
Stay Alive
Calendar Girl who is lost to the world Stay Alive
January,February,March,April,May I’m alive
June,July,August,September,October I’m alive
November,December,yah all through the winter, I’m alive
I’m alive

Web based aggregator – Suggestions

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Right, I want to stick up a web based aggregator on one of my domains for aggregating sites with a certain theme. I’ve seen a few different aggregators around the place but what I ideally want is something that looks as simple Planet of the Blogs but won’t kill my server at the same time. It needs to be simple to install as I’m no longer the tech god I once wished I could be. To start with it will only be polling 20 or so blogs.

John Breslin – Net Visionary

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

I forgot to post about this yesterday. Congratulations to John Breslin on finally getting the recognition he deserves. You deserve many more awards too John.

Red Mum a columnist, Twenty is bigger than Jesus, Donncha photofamous

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Red Mum now has a column in the Echo (Dublin version.)

Twenty is bigger than Jesus and that ugly scouser Lennon. That’s no mean feat, even these days when so many people haven’t listened to Jesus’s cds or Lennon’s sermons.

To complete this holy trinity DJ mentions that Donncha’s photos could be in a TodayFM book. His work may even be on the late late with plank kenny.

Bye Bye Roy Keane

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Roy leaves Man Utd. Now off to Paddy Power with ye all to place bets where he’ll go. Sunderland will be good odds.

Scoble doble do time – Robert Scoble IT@Cork Podcast

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Tom has put up his podcast of the interview with Robert Scoble. I don’t know why but the theme tune to the Flintstones started going through my head when I thought of Scoble in mp3 form. My brain is weird, what can I say. Anyway, like Homer did with his “Homer, Homer Simpson” remake, here is one for Scoble.

Scoble, Robert Scoble
He’s the greatest guy in history
From the town of Redmond
He’s making a nice guy out of Bill G.

Rob writes about everyone he meets
using RSS and disruptive techniques

When you meet MicroScoble,
You’ll have a scoble doble do time,
A doble do time,
You’ll have a Bill and Steve and Ray old time.

I have between one and two thousand readers

Friday, November 18th, 2005

According to Dogbert anyway.

Love

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Got this by email. So not safe for work.

1 Go to Google and click on Images
2 Type in the word, love
3 Click Search
4 Look at the first picture – (yeah, the one with the Land Rover)!
5 Stare in amazement (not for too long though)

This is who we are: Euan Semple finds a good definition of the blogosphere

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Euan Semple quotes from Theodore Zeldin and says the quote can aptly describe the blogosphere:

I see humanity as a family that has hardly met. I see the meeting of people, bodies, thoughts, emotions or actions as the start of most change. Each link created by a meeting is like a filament, which, if they were all visible, would make the world look as if it is covered with gossamer. Every individual is connected to others, loosely or closely, by a unique combination of filaments, which stretch across frontiers of space and time…

Magnet debuts 24MB broadband – For €240 a month

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

SiliconRepublic reports on Magnet are releasing a 24mbps broadband product. This is the power of LLU. €240 a month isn’t something the general consumer but I know people that are paying a fortune for 4mbps adsl so this in comparison is far better value for money. Terrible shame it’s capped though.

EDIT: Just got their press release:

Full product list:

24MB service – €240.00 incl VAT (250GB download cap)

10MB service – €149.00 incl VAT (150GB download cap)

4MB service – €63.99 incl VAT (100GB download cap)

2MB service – €39.99 incl VAT (25GB download cap)

The 4mbps business product from eircom is €169 [b]ex vat[/b], so Magnet are at least 1/3 of the eircom price for eircom’s top business package. Some people may have issues with caps on such an expensive service though.