Damien Mulley

Update, thanks to the Swiss Job, we have a logo:

While the Blogorrahistas are sorting out their “webdev” issues, someone needs to fill the need for goss and dross. Now we have had a few efforts recently from Adrian but the people need more. With so many media folks reading the site daily, surely these same people have access to all the great photos the PR companies were sending on and can make witty/catty blog posts about them? Add into the mix other videos and things like that found about the place and we can have our very own distributed Blogorrah, while we wait for the return. If you want to partake, create your own BBB – bring back blogorrah post and mark what day it is in the campaign.

Further update: Turning into the Judean Peoples Front and the Peoples Front of Judea now. Alternative logo:

Now here for your viewing pleasure is idiots at Oxegen getting all muddy. Hurry up before the organisers make people in wigs even more money:

One of the dozens of mud fights at Oxegen:

An Irish mud angel:

and it’s not just Irish people acting the bollox. Here’s Jake Shears from Scissor Sisters showing his:

Women demand removal of short fat bollards because they remind them of penises. Obviously those ladies need to shop around. *cough*

Stephen has a blog. In fact he has two. His blog about Toilets got him onto the Rick O’Shea show. But he prefers his main blog where he has his “fuckers list“.

Wouldn’t you just call it a “speaker?” Sony intros a TV for the blind.

Via Weckorrah (again) it seems Kathryn Thomas was miffed over a pisstake of her in an ad from Magnet:

They also said that the Magnet Networks advertisement contained the following, which they believed to be a reference to Ms. Thomas:
“Bogband — it’s broadband that slows down when you need it most. Your friend got it because a blonde girl from a travel show told him it was great but what that genius forgot to mention was high contention — broadband’s dirty little secret.

Staying on that theme: Trev revs up his new motor. Him and his other biatches will now be big greenin’

New blogs on the block for this week.

Bonus link to a new blog: Midget Wrangler. Give her attention. Anyone that likes Beth Ditto is an ok guy in my books.

LouderVoice is now doing audio reviews. Videos next.

With punishment beatings on the wane and fuck all kneecappings happening, the yoof of the North need a way of inflicting damage to their bodies. (I think the Osteo wards are secretly sponsoring this.)

Parkour in the Nord:

More Nordie Parkour. I just can’t believe they used *that* remix of Jump Around, if there was any remix to be chosen it shoulda been the Butch Vig one. I mean jesus like. Tut.

Yes I’m on Facebook. Sssh. It’s better than LinkedIn, though still woeful. Anyways, since there isn’t a central place for finding people in Ireland who have spare time to do some programming work, I created a Facebook group called “Will code for food – Ireland”. Add yourself to it if you want to do some nixers, foxers etc. I’m sure using the word code will annoy some people. 🙂

Update 4: Issues with caching on WordPress.com, see comments from Donncha below. Thanks Donncha!

Update 3: WordPress are aware of whatever this is. Zero day exploit?

Update 2: Seems it isn’t just Feeburner. Said “security” site showed up the in the WordPress.com feed of OffTheMeatrack as well. Twenty spotted that one. So is someone hacking WordPress which in turn changes the feeds of the sites?

Update: Changed the post title. Seems this is happening with more than one site. Michele is getting the random blogs for blog feeds he has subbed to.

Is it Om’s Feed or Feedburner itself?

This is what I get for the feedburner feed of the GigaOm site:

Anyone else getting this?

It goes to this website.

From the press release:

O2 Broadband, through a wireless USB modem, will enable up to 10GB of data to be downloaded as standard per month, with no additional charges for occasional usage in excess of this. O2 is the first mobile provider in Ireland not to automatically charge customers if they exceed the 10GB usage limit, subject to fair usage policy.

The service will initially be available for a three month introductory price of €15 per month for those with an existing O2 post-pay voice connection or for new post-pay customers taking a voice connection*. It will be €20 for all other customers. Following the three month promotional period, the monthly cost is €30 (with voice connection*). For all other customers the cost is €40 per month. The USB modem will be priced from €69 (all prices quoted are inclusive of VAT).

I’ll be trialing it this week to see what it’s like. I’m going to try and get clarification on the “occasional usage” line.

Update: So basically 02 are saying, don’t ride the system and everything will be ok. If someone goes over they will be informed if they will be charged if they further go over the cap.

Mark Garavan talks about PR lessons when dealing with the Irish Media. Mark managed PR for the Rossport Five. Everyone should listen to this, be they in PR or lobbying or “other”.

Via Jack Yan is a free download of the fourth edition of the book “Detective Marketing”.

Fun and games as Washington DC madam can now disclose her phone records.

What’s the name of that thing, you know the thingy that does the.. Answers here.

Tims Times moves as well.

Nice article on Green coworking.

Watch two YouTube videos at the same time. Cos that is interesting….

ComReg now have more powers. Will PaddyPower take bets on whether they’ll ever use them?

Meanwhile in Green sellout news (news to me) they are telling their people to vote for FF councillors.

Amiina (to gently ease you into a Monday morning):

Ratatat is a New York City electronic music duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and synthesizer driver and producer Evan Mast. They’re another band playing at Electric Picnic. Their song “Lex” has redefined the summer for me. You know those songs that change everything and tweak the bits of the musical part of your brain that have not been tweaked in that combination before? For me, that was “Lex”.

and here is them playing “Lex” at the Guggenheim Museum:

You can download the tune here.

Thank god someone started taking the piss out of Steorn:

If you like it and would rather this than the real Steorn got the attention, then DIGG it here. This also got mention on Techcrunch.

One of the many bands at Electric Picnic:

I recently went to Lisbon for a week to attend the HP Labs University event. It was an all-expenses paid trip, courtesy of HP. This year was the 10th anniversary and they really looked after the 350 journalists and analysts they brought along. There were 10 talks to choose from over the week and we were told to choose 5. Some were very academic and a bit long. The talks I put myself down to attend were:

• Original HP ink cartridges vs. alternatives.
• Connections: The future of personal computing.
• The reviewers guide to printers.
• Future.
• Inside the HP camera.

I skipped the last one on the last day after hearing a lot of feedback from journalists saying it was mind-numblingly boring and far far too academic. Instead I went to the bar, surfed the net and wrote up my notes on the event. It was pointed out to be afterwards that I skipped the talk. I told them why. 🙂

Highlights:

• Actually liking a 3 hour talk on ink and cartridges. I guess it helped with the enthusiastic HP staff and the funny Germans who did some testing on reseller cartridges and released a survey on it. I’d like to do my own survey here to see how refiled cartridges do. From the tests done by the indepdendent German company, the pageload is way way less and the fade speed is rapid.
• The night out at the Casino, where we never got to gamble but did watch a show that was a bit like Cirque de Soliel.
• Meeting Haydn.
• Meeting Rusty and Simon and other UK journalists.
• Talking tech shite with Kerry Gaffney from Porter Novelli til about 5am on the last night. Kerry could easily give a technology journalist a run for their money with the breadth and depth of her tech knowledge. Very professional and good fun.
• Finding myself having immense fun at a big massive samba thingy in an ampitheatre. I made noise by shaking something. I rocked.
• The “Future” talk where HP demonstrated the MScape technology, Pluribus and other stuff that is still NDA’d. I’ll blog about these in other blog posts in the next while.

Flickr set from event.

Were I HP, next time I’d cut the talks down a bit more and do a little more practical stuff and less on the mathematics behind some stuff. I’d also include some “unconference” type talks where it basically is a group discussion. They have 350 technology journos captive, it would be good to get their collective intelligence to do more than write up the event. See what their thoughts on future trends are, for example. All in all it was worth going to and hopefully we’ll see more Irish journalists there next time.