Deserves a post all by itself. Nice guide from Gavan on installing WordPress on your own site. Only slightly technical abilities are needed.
Author: Damien Mulley
Gav’s Guide to installing WordPress
Monday, July 28th, 2008Fluffy Links – Monday July 28th 2008
Monday, July 28th, 2008Want to go to a Food Styling demonstration?
There’s an Irish Webmaster meetup on August 9th in Dublin.
TJ finds the best named legal firm in Ireland.
Chris has very good reasons to unsub from BoingBoing.
So if you do set up a Twitter account for your business, maybe don’t use your mobile as the mobile arm of it.
So what did that Joss Wheedon “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” project make, numbers wise? Wheedon nodded in the comments that they were about right. Love this idea though:
For example, musical theater aficionados will note that a few of the Dr. Horrible numbers feature two distinct countermelodies. It’s difficult to parse a melody and a countermelody lyric in real time, much less two distinct countermelodies being sung along with a melody part. To get it all (and rabid Whedon fans will want to), you’d have to listen to it at least three times. So Dr. Horrible seems specifically engineered to be watched again and again
Maybe that’s the future of movies? Design movie so it can be watched a few times and deliver new content each time.
These are the Facebook applications that Facebook think are the future? Interesting that some are productivity tools on a site that many businesses think waste time.
What a great idea. A place to highlight PR fuckups. You can send on your own via Twitter.
Olympics 2008 Monkey Movie – BBC Sport
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The Music – Strength in Numbers sounds like dEUS – The Architect
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Baseline mostly.
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O2 experience store Patrick Street Cork – Bunch of cretins
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Did you know if you are one of those noisy ignorant Spanish students that spend their time loitering in Irish towns and cities each summer and doing things such as splitting a coke between 8 of you in McDonalds that you are entitled to skip the queue in an O2 store and to hell with those people wanting to buy more than a fucking charger that are in the queue? Well that’s apparently the policy in the O2 experience store in Patrick’s Street in Cork.
Despite me raising a complaint about the queue jumpers the girl serving them didn’t seem to care, nor did her colleague who looked at her and me and pretended not to notice.
Fuck your mobile broadband product I was signing up for and fuck your 16gb iPhone I decided to to get while I was in the queue.
This what Flickr brings back for the phrase fuck you. G’wan George:
Photo owned by Tony the Misfit (cc)
RTE special – The Global Classroom
Saturday, July 26th, 2008RTE have a special series on next week called the Global Classroom.
We go to India, Rwanda and Kenya where three programmes, including the Irish charity Camara, are using three very different approaches to achieve the same goal: educating the world’s youngest citizens.
And it’s all webified too:
Next week, RTÉ.ie News Editor Joe Zefran and journalist Blathnaid Healy (left) will bring you a special website with full-length features, photo gallery, and audio/video highlights including web-exclusive interviews.
What I think is the big thing with this is that the RTE.ie team not RTE (yeah there’s a diff) will be showing their wares on the Six One News and News on Two. Nice one.
Enda makes his own 3g iPhone ad
Saturday, July 26th, 2008[vimeo 1408775]
Green Jelly – Three Little Pigs
Friday, July 25th, 2008Remember this?
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BT Ireland pull out of the National Broadband Scheme
Friday, July 25th, 2008News just coming in. Confirmed with them too. No reasons for doing so yet. The final tender was meant to be decided by Autumn so this is cutting it close. The Department go on hols (just like the Courts) in the next while too. BT Ireland will still be the tech partner for Three who along with eircom are the only ones left in the tender process.
Not sure will the Department be as happy with a two horse race and them leaving this late into it. I wonder what changed recently?
Update: Irish Times coverage.
A BT spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that it had withdrawn “due to the lack of spectrum being made available” for the scheme.
BT planned to provide coverage using a wireless technology called WiMax. Industry sources said that 10Mhz of radio spectrum was being made available for the NBS.
Following a technical analysis, BT found this was not sufficient as it would have required a large number of base stations to provide the broadband speeds required by the Department of Communications.
This is why I like Twitter
Friday, July 25th, 2008I ask a question about Babylon 5 (in 140 chars or less) and get back great feedback from people in 140 characters or less. 11 replies in 10 minutes.
eircom to sue ComReg next week
Friday, July 25th, 2008Seems a date has been put down for eircom to sue ComReg in the Commercial court about ComReg’s recent line share price reductions.
Commercial Court goes on hols at the end of the month so either they don’t go to Costa Del Law and listen to the case or they do and the case is adjourned until October. Meaning line share prices are frozen until then.
Stay tuned.