Thanks all. Dec 7th saw this site at 700k. Nice increase since then. Over a million pageviews too. If only I could give you all badges.
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800k visitors – 100k visitors since December 7th
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008Fluffy Links – Monday February 18th 2008
Monday, February 18th, 2008Free Neil Gaiman audio short story read by the genius himself.
Do you stop breathing as you type? Don’t type long sentences.
Via Mick. International Skeletor day!
A book about squares and boxes. And very appealing. If you liked the docu Helvetica…
Find free domain names or make up new company names that match free domains.
Journobloggers. Never heard that word before. You will not utter it again here either.
Via You Ain’t No Picasso:
Justice – Phantom
Thao Nguyen – Bag of Hammers
Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Got their album recently and really impressed with it.
Meanwhile Justice V Simian – We are your friends:
Broadband lobby group – Barry wants one started
Saturday, February 16th, 2008So Barry, frequent visitor to this blog has posted a thread on the old IrelandOffline forum looking for interested people who want to campaign to get the rest of the country broadband. I won’t be involved, just so we’re clear. Ive done my time and it’s about time that all those people who get on to me on an almost daily basis still and say “someone should do something” should themselves be that someone. So Barry is doing just that but he needs the help of others too. With the recent attitude from Lying Eamon Ryan, there is a definite need for some kind of lobby group and Shane Ross can’t be left to be the only person fighting for broadband, he needs others to row in too. So get over to IrelandOffline’s forum or if you don’t want to join Boards.ie (whyonearthnot?) leave a comment here and Barry can respond.
As an example of the sheer bad attitude from Eamon Ryan and the Government, here’s a short clipping from the Sunday Times
John McElligott, the managing director of eBay in Ireland, has called on the minister to take a “quantum leap†by investing in NGNs, bringing Irish broadband speeds closer to the 100 megabits per second (Mbits/s) enjoyed in some countries. Irish download speeds for residential broadband users are a maximum of 12 Mbit/s. Most of the country operates on speeds of 1-2 Mbit/s. Ryan said McElligott was “right to be ambitiousâ€, but questioned his thinking. “John runs eBay. When he starts running a construction company, he can advise me on digging holes to every home in the country,†Ryan said.
Cos Ryan clearly has a PhD in telecoms and broadband…
Sorry Glengarriff Lodge I’m not gonna rig Google for you
Saturday, February 16th, 2008While many Irish bloggers are linking to the Glengarriff Lodge site with certain keywords so it’ll do well in Google, I’m not going to.
Photo owned by Gerard Lovett
I’d rather preserve the fact that when I blog I am not given money or the chance of winning something of monetary value to be inspired to write that post. That’s not stopping others though from taking part in their competition. Details here. Seems you can only be in the chance of winning if there over 25 other people using the Google rigging text. The Glengarriff Lodge does look nice I have to say, I agree with Donncha, it’s a shame though that they are using a technique as odious as Pay Per Post to promote themselves. As a great man once said, that’s just SEO bullshit.
Discount to see Guy Cowabunga, Robin Williams, Tom Raftery and loads more
Friday, February 15th, 2008Oh, I meant Kawasaki, Guy Kawasaki. And Anthony Williams, the guy behind Wikinomics. And Tom. So yes, the Irish Softwre Association are offering via me a discount of 15% for the first 10 people to use the code “Mulley’08” when they register for the ISA 2008 conference which takes place on February 28th. For a while I felt special… but … If you want you can also get the same discount from Tom. Details here.
Cork City Hall Car Park
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Today is “Annoy Busy People” Friday
Friday, February 15th, 2008Today is Annoy Busy People Friday. Yes I just made it up. If you have friends on GMail chat or MSN or YahooIM or whatever and they’ve marked themselves as busy, then it’s time to email them and Facebook message them and IM them and text them and ring them. Make sure that your messages will frustrate them because they are so inconsequential compared to the task they are doing. “So, yeah, ever wondered about the sky being blue?” “What’s the biggest number you’ve counted up to? Is it 1003 or maybe 2036 or maybe 917?”. You get the idea. Terrorise a friend, g’wan, it’s Friday.
eircom innovation fund – Last Day
Friday, February 15th, 2008Today’s the last day. Have you sent something in? Well worth doing.
Lying Ryan on Prime Time
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Dear Lying
We suddenly have 120k people on mobile broadband? Didn’t you tell Bertie 90k just the other day and he said it on YouTube? Who to believe, who to believe. Not you.
You got caught with the maps. Badly. First anyone had heard about the maps being constantly updated. Should I FOI that too? According to you I should find a few iterations of that map when I do another FOI. I think I will so.
The National Broadband Scheme will be finished in 12 months. Really? If I asked eircom, BT and Three, would they agree? I’m going to ask them tomorrow to check.
We are NOT midtable OCED, we are not average. Bertie even said that the other day and that figure includes mobile broadband figures that are not counted by the OECD.
Loved when they quoted the DCMNR FOI’d documents about resources. Muhaha. Punk’d