Damien Mulley

Anyone else seeing 100s of months old posts? DRINK A GLASS OF WATER BACKWARDS WHILE HAVING SOMEONE GIVE YOU A FRIGHT. There there.

Update: MJ from Infurious turns this into a philosophy. I like.

Stupid git.

Months ago I was asking was there any blogs on agriculture and farming. I didn’t find any. Last evening I found The Irish Farming blog. Begin Masse-Ferguson jokes.

John M. Ryan’s blog. Noticed a good bit of taffic coming from this blog last week. Thanks for the link John.

Via A guide to online Ireland is Mediangler, Haydn Shaughnessy’s blog.

Dan King aka the BOFH for Boards.ie is back blogging. New site, new weaponry or er something.

Blogorrah has had excellent coverage of this for the past while and you can go to the Warlords of Pez (best band in Ireland, please play at the Blog Awards!) website to listen to the actual voicemail.

There’s talk of t-shirts going on sale:

The dance version.

Hello Tribune readers. Hello Sun readers. Hello Mirror readers.

First Tuesday Ireland are now blogging. They had a blog just for their wireless conference but now there’s an all encompassing blog too. Welcome to the Irish Blogs FTIs!

The Indo has a piece today on junk mail. Only a few thousand have opted out to receive snail mail spam. Yeah, you have to opt out in this country by sending in a form to the Irish Direct Marketing Association. That’s right Skippy, the industry is the one in charge of the opt-out database. Just like the Advertising Standards “Authority” of Ireland which is funded by the advertising industry. Self-regulation. But then we have a telecoms poodle that is funded by the telecoms industry.

Back to the point I’m going to make. So you fill out a form, sign it, send it into the industry representative group, they can take up to two months to process it and then you are off snail mail advertisments sent to you. BUT this does not include any of the crap the likes of Dell sends out as you were a customer previously. If you were a customer of a company that are sending you mailshots then you have to contact them directly and ask to be removed. Lovely. So off I trot to the IDMA site today only to find you can’t download the form that is to be filled out as the link is bust. If I was a cynic I’d say “that’s handy”. That’s handy. If you ring they’ll post a form out and you can fill it in. The catch you see is you must sign the form. I guess that’s why you can’t ring them up and have yourself removed. Yet you can sign up for any junk mail without signatures. You can find the form here though.

Imagine if there was an online service where you fill in all your details, postal address, phones, emails and all the various databases are told to have your details removed. One can only dream I guess.

I installed the Notable WordPress plugin yesterday and can’t seem to get it to work at all. Below is the configuration screen which from what I’m reading has some menu missing. Anyone have an idea as to what’s wrong?

So says the Sunday Times:

Joe Lennon isn’t the only government spin doctor deserting the ship less than nine months before the general election. Grace Cappock, Noel Dempsey’s press officer, is off to work for BT, while Robert Marshall from the Fianna Fail press office has gone to Murray Consultants. Dan Pender has already left the transport department, and Tony Cotter is gone from arts and sports. Do spin doctors see the writing on the wall?