Damien Mulley

Alive in Limerick is back. Hooray.

Another Limerick blog of interest is: Kind I Like (Things that look like people). A very interesting photoblog.

More new and old blogs on the block over on the Awards.ie site.

Java is going to be open sourced it seems. Is it too late though?

Want a job in Google TV?

Great pics of an Island forming due to an undersea volcano.

Another one of those Webpage to RSS services.

Have text files as part of your background on your Windows desktop.

Interesting evening course in UCC in January – The Militarization of Knowledge.

Remember Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. This saddo can’t move on, it seems.

CNN censors Bill Maher outing a Republican. Huffington Post gets all uppity over the censorship.

Fox Journo has a bit of a cock-up live. Funny how they mention it’ll end up on YouTube:

Got this in an email. It looked interesting enough until I checked out their ghastly website: http://www.people-before-profit.org/ The Indymedia to normals ratio will probably be quite high too. Maybe there’ll be classes on how to use a video camera for the Shell to Sea people? 🙂

Time for a real left alternative – Public Conference

Speakers Include:

Vincent McGrath (Shell to Sea/Rossport 5)
Catherine Connolly (Galway City Cllr),
Joan Collins (Indp. Cllr),
Eamonn McCann (Raytheon 9, Journalist)
Catherine Murphy (Indp. TD)
Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit),
Prof Kathleen Lynch (UCD),
Carmel McKenna,
Dr. Abdullah Sayed,
Ailbhe Smyth,
Kieran Allen,
Rory Hearne

When: Fri 24th & Sat 25th Nov.
Where: Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2

Conference Registration: Waged €5 Unwaged €2

This conference is bringing together individuals, groups, political organisations, campaigns, and unions who want to create an Ireland and a world based on what people need rather than the needs of corporations. Come along to discuss and listen to issues such as war, globalisation, privatisation of public services and the creation of alternatives. We believe a radical alternative to the establishment political parties is necessary; one that represents working people and all those currently alienated by the consensus politics that prioritises the needs of corporations, developers, and the wealthy elite over the needs of workers, local communities and ordinary people.

Timetable
Friday Nov. 24th:
6pm Education & Privatisation for Profit – the dangers for public education
Prof. Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Niall Smyth (Campaign for Commercial Free Education), Dr. David Carey, Froebel College, Blackrock, Coordinator of Special Education and Programme Development at the Froebel College of Education

7.30pm War, globalisation and Ireland
Dr Abdullah Sayed (Irish-Lebanese Community), Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair, Irish Anti War Movement & PBPA Candidate Dun Laoghaire), Ailbhe Smyth (UCD), Eamon McCann (Journalist & Raytheon 9)

Saturday November 25th:
10.30am Privatisation & neoliberalism: the future for our public services?
Catherine Murphy (Indp TD), Catherine Connolly (Cllr. Galway), Kieran Allen (UCD)

12pm People power and strategies of resistance
Vincent Mcgrath (Rossport 5), Frances Corr (Combined Residents Against Incineration), Rory Hearne (People Before Profit Alliance)

2.30pm People before profit: time for a new left alternative
Joan Collins (Indp Cllr), Carmel Mckenna (People Before Profit Alliance Candidate Wicklow), Richard Boyd Barrett, Catherine Connolly

Org. by People Before Profit Alliance/Davitt League Contact 086 1523542/086 0566290
www.people-before-profit.org

White Zombie was another favourite band of mine years back. In a search for their song “More Human than Human” I found countless fan videos, mostly using anime. Here are a few which YouTube still host:

Before Crisis:

Powerpuff Girls:

Vampire Hunter:

The Crow: City of Angels

And finally Evangelion:

You may spot a theme here.

HMV screws Irish customers over more than their UK ones.

CIE wants to screw us by increasing their fares again.

The ESB who are about to screw us all over with massive price hikes wants to buy an NI power company. Will it bring prices down? Not a chance. It means a bigger monopoly. Split them up like the consultants report said, Dempsey.

Oh look, now the English have seen they can screw us over.

And lastly, the Government have no balls and are only making a piecemeal effort to protect kids.

With all these accusations and counter-accusations, where are the vids on YouTube, where are the Flickr photos? This is 2006, right?

Sweet jesus. Are things that bad everywhere else too?

Eircom TSS, the sales contact centre operation of Eircom, has picked up an award for Best Contact Centre in the World, at the International Contact Centre World Awards held in Las Vegas last night.

The annual awards recognise the best contact centres and best contact centre people and strategies worldwide.
The Irish telecoms firm said that it had beaten competition from more than 250 entries from around the world as well as two rival finalists representing Asia (Apple Care) and North America (Sage).

Gerry Culligan, Director of Consumer Market, Eircom said, “It is fantastic to be recognised as the best of the best by our industry peers from around the world.”