Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Dunphy was on form on RTE last night. Accusing the FAI of “flying kites” in the media to soften the impact of the appointment of Terry Venables as Irish football manager, Dunphy comprehensively hammered Venables and urged the public to shoot down this kite before it is too late. The 21 minute segment [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007 I’d love to work for one of the companies that thinks up ads for TV. I imagine them all sitting at a big round table deciding what kind of campaign to go with. They talk about the brand, and brainstorm a bit, trying to think of something clever but direct, debating the merits [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 I’ve mentioned Monster.com a few times since details of the big security breach first came out – when 1.6 million CV’s were swiped by hackers, leading to lots of spam and highly targeted scams. Most people didn’t pick up on the fact that this is nothing new for Monster. Because of the way [...]
Sunday, November 18, 2007 Beowulf
“If you go to see one movie this week: see American Gangster. If you go to see two movies: see Beowulf.“
I was a bit concerned about the animation… the characters looked straight out of The Elder Scrolls Oblivion. My doubts were silenced as soon as Grendel arrived on the scene. [...]
Thursday, November 15, 2007 Alexia has declared her disappointment in Science Week’s carrot-dangling approach to spread awareness of science by encouraging Irish bloggers to write about inventions. Let me just preface this by saying: I like carrots. I would like to win a free Nintendo Wii, I am just a bit too lazy to think of an [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Apologies to anyone who’s comment hasn’t made it onto this site in recent months. I’ve spotted a few false positives in my Akismet spam list lately, which makes me wonder how many I’ve missed in the past (because I usually just ‘delete all’). The inability to sort by “spamminess”, as Techcrunch puts it, [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Congrats to Conor and LouderVoice on making the final list of 30 competitors for the 2007 LeWeb3 Start-up Competition. Looks like it could be a great conference too, some really interesting sessions. It is nice to see the organisers taking heed of the importance of gaming in the future of the internet – [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 I was pretty surprised when I saw the lights go off on my Rackspace servers in the DFW data center, in Dallas.
The outage was covered by Laughing Squid, and made it onto a lot of big tech news sites such as TechCrunch, GigaOm, Valleywag, and O’Reilly Radar. 37 Signals and other well known [...]
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 The other day I was driving through Vicarstown (outside Tower in Cork) and I nearly ran over a stoat (in broad daylight). I hadn’t seen one of these in over 15 years – have come across plenty of hedgehogs and badgers in that time, and the occasional mink and otter, but no stoats.
And believe [...]
No matter how hard I try to describe Berlin, only one word comes to mind – it is very very “German”. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what I love about the place. Just like Weisswurst and pretzels, the city is numbingly bland on first impressions, until you discover the sachet of honey mustard. [...]