Two days ago Rob signs up for Twitter, less than 24 hours ago he starts playing with their APIs and 9 hours ago he releases TwitterBuzz.com. Rob, you’re a fecking genius.
It’d be great if the TinyUrl and URL.ie urls got turned into the final urls so we can see what the sites are. Also, seems to me a Digg like service via Twitter could be made from this too.
Rob also built Irish Politics Aggregator Politics In Ireland and FindMeATune.com
Apart from GMail, Meebo and Bloglines, the one site I visit the most daily is IrishBlogs.ie and now with it down all weekend there’s a gap in my web life. I guess I should log off and go out and try and catch pneumonia or something… Hey Roger. you should set up a tipjar so we can contribute to what is now an essential web service for some.
These are fun bears. No Will, not that type.
Ireland is a micro-state that steals other countries tax revenues. It is not capable of being compared to the UK. It can only survive under the shadow of the UK (and I say this as an Irish citizen).
Interesting perspective.
Via Where’s the Salt? Arthaven in Crosshaven are going to be showing Baraka on Friday March 23rd.
Nenagh.pl. Cool idea.
That Government VC fund seems to be gathering dust.
Bellamy doesn’t actually exist, claim scientists.
Tony and Lauren are not bothered:
Gervais is a God:
Borat isn’t as good as the above Gervais bit:
So a few days after the blog awards it was my 30th birthday and I really was too tired to go out for it but got dragged out the following night by my friends. Even though I didn’t want to.
Then they gave me my present. Which was a red jumper. You can tell my gratitude with that overjoyed expression on my face.
I was then made wear this jumper without any sleeves. Still not knowing what was up. Thought I was going to get slippers and a pipe next or something. So I start opening the next present.
And then it clicks with me when I see the cutout of a TV:
A line from Father Ted where Jack is giving out about Dougal being on the telly: “What’s that gobshite doing on the television? ” which is what one of them said when I was on the news talking about blogs.
So then with my red jumper on and the cut-out of a telly, they made me re-renact the scene from Fr. Ted. Which was helpfully printed out in neat type on the back of the telly. Not that I could read it without my glasses.
After that they gave me a cake and had me cut slices from it. It was then I discovered that…
They had baked me a cake jumper. A Father Ted reference that I actually failed to get.
Oh yeah, here’s the cringeworthy YouTube of it. Warning, excessive Cork accents:
Covered by Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash and a whole heap more. Buckley sang this at a tribute to his father in and around 1991 and his recorded version of this was the last song played at his own funeral just a few years later.
how many times have you heard someone say
if I had his money, I would do things my way
but little they know, that it’s so hard to find
one rich man in ten with a satisfied mindmoney can’t buy back your youth when you’re old
friend when you’re lonely, oh peace to your soul
the wealthiest person is a pauper at times
compared to the man with a satisfied mindmy life is over and my time has run out
my friends and my loved ones, i’ll leave these no doubt
one things for certain, when it comes my time
i’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
i’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
my life is over and my time has run outmy friends and my loved ones, i’ll leave these no doubt
but one things for certain, when it comes my time
i’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
one things for certain, when it comes my time
i’ll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
Installed Askimet in June 06 and from then til now it has stopped over 200k spams. God bless WordPress.com 🙂
Update: Nothing compared to Techcrunch though. 15,000 spams a day!
Via the Blakester.
Yeah I dunno why I called him that either…
I’m reminded of Dougal questioning his faith.
The Western people reported on two Mayo Dáil candidates doing YouTube campaign videos. Fianna Fail’s Frank Chambers and Fine Gael’s John O’Mahony both have videos on YouTube but they’re quite different. Chambers’ video takes place in his kitchen whereas O’Mahony’s is a medley of photos and screens listing his promises and contains music from the Saw Doctors and some other Irish band.
This is Frank’s – “Be Frank, Vote Chambers”.
Not a bad video apart from the looking down too often.
Frank then has local people giving their video support but the trouble is it looks staged. Maybe it’s just nerves but it does feel like the guy is reading from a script.
All Frank’s videos can be accessed here.
This is John’s – Vote John O’Mahony
Slicker, more like the usual political TV spots. No video of the man himself talking to the people. I’d prefer the human touch of Frank’s.
Here’s an interesting fact. Frank’s video was uploaded around the same time as the Labour Party’s “But, are you happy?” video and the Labour video has been viewed 639 times. Frank’s has been viewed 891 times. O’Mahony’s was uploaded two weeks ago and has been viewed 486 times.
Meanwhile Boards.ie now has an 2007 Election forum.
BusinessAdvisory.ie press release about ShareIT finally out the gap. Let me know if you want to go along to it and please pass it along to people who you might think would be interested in going too. So far takeup has been fairly slack but I’ve not had time to promote it well, what with other things but I’m sure people will be sick of mention of it by next weekend.
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