Damien Mulley

James mentions the pre-Blog Awards tech event being planned. I’ve handed over planning of this to Bernie or rather I suggested it to him that he do it and I legged it. The plan is that the geeks have a small tech event talking about a few things. James will talk OPML and feedgrazing, John Handelaar will talk about his Fax My TD/Vocal Voter project and someone from Microsoft will present IE7 and RSS integration. Bernie will line up one or two more people as well. Hopefully there’ll be a wiki up where people can register to go. I doubt I’ll be able to make it as I have the Awards themselves to play with.

Time will be 1500-1700. Location yet to be decided though it could be in or near the Alexander Hotel as the Blog Awards are moving there.

EDIT: Thatgirl suggests a more social get together for the non-techy people before the Awards. Having half the audience drunk will give it an authentic Jerry Springer feel. Nooooo!

It seems that someone from the Sunday Times contacted El Paso about a story they carried and instead of helping them out they replied with a post claiming the Times were trying to steal their story and added:

Kate, nothing personal but the Sunday Times as a British newspaper has never done Dundalk any favours over the years so our reply is GO TO HELL.

How utterly backward thinking. One would think that if you blog something you’d want more coverage. Hidden agenda or not getting a story more attention is a good thing. If El Paso were worried about being misrepresented then do what I do and post the whole content of emails sent to the paper so there can be no misunderstandings. Readers of the Sunday Times are not dumb and I’m sure can make up their own minds. If one person read the story and it enabled more public discussion then it is a positive thing. Would you treat your fellow bloggers with the same small-minded contempt? And bloggers wonder why the press are wary of them!

Digital Rights talk on Government and Privacy. Feb 24th. TCD. Worth going if you’re around Dublin.

My friend Charlie is running an event called Wavehunt and is currently looking for sponsors. Anyone want to sponsor this “exercise a nerd” event? 🙂

Blurb:

WaveHunt is a high-tech manhunt using a moving wireless computer network on the streets of Dublin, Ireland.

Inspired by the DefCon Running Man competition, WaveHunt is a fun event for Ireland’s technical community that will test your network and direction finding skills, and possibly even win you some prizes!

Short List is here.

UPDATE: Booked a place. Thanks for your help!

Just checked Buswells. They have one room left at €240 a night. Eh no. Anyone recommend a cheaper hotel? I didn’t realise that was the Ireland v Scotland match weekend. Lordy.