Author: Damien Mulley

Sorry Glengarriff Lodge I’m not gonna rig Google for you

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

While many Irish bloggers are linking to the Glengarriff Lodge site with certain keywords so it’ll do well in Google, I’m not going to.

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Photo owned by Gerard Lovett

I’d rather preserve the fact that when I blog I am not given money or the chance of winning something of monetary value to be inspired to write that post. That’s not stopping others though from taking part in their competition. Details here. Seems you can only be in the chance of winning if there over 25 other people using the Google rigging text. The Glengarriff Lodge does look nice I have to say, I agree with Donncha, it’s a shame though that they are using a technique as odious as Pay Per Post to promote themselves. As a great man once said, that’s just SEO bullshit.

Help Wanted, No Bullshit
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Luxury Self Catering

Discount to see Guy Cowabunga, Robin Williams, Tom Raftery and loads more

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Oh, I meant Kawasaki, Guy Kawasaki. And Anthony Williams, the guy behind Wikinomics. And Tom. So yes, the Irish Softwre Association are offering via me a discount of 15% for the first 10 people to use the code “Mulley’08” when they register for the ISA 2008 conference which takes place on February 28th. For a while I felt special… but … If you want you can also get the same discount from Tom. Details here.

Cork City Hall Car Park

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Cork City Hall Car Park

Today is “Annoy Busy People” Friday

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Today is Annoy Busy People Friday. Yes I just made it up. If you have friends on GMail chat or MSN or YahooIM or whatever and they’ve marked themselves as busy, then it’s time to email them and Facebook message them and IM them and text them and ring them. Make sure that your messages will frustrate them because they are so inconsequential compared to the task they are doing. “So, yeah, ever wondered about the sky being blue?” “What’s the biggest number you’ve counted up to? Is it 1003 or maybe 2036 or maybe 917?”. You get the idea. Terrorise a friend, g’wan, it’s Friday.

eircom innovation fund – Last Day

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Today’s the last day. Have you sent something in? Well worth doing.

Lying Ryan on Prime Time

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Dear Lying

We suddenly have 120k people on mobile broadband? Didn’t you tell Bertie 90k just the other day and he said it on YouTube? Who to believe, who to believe. Not you.

You got caught with the maps. Badly. First anyone had heard about the maps being constantly updated. Should I FOI that too? According to you I should find a few iterations of that map when I do another FOI. I think I will so.

The National Broadband Scheme will be finished in 12 months. Really? If I asked eircom, BT and Three, would they agree? I’m going to ask them tomorrow to check.

We are NOT midtable OCED, we are not average. Bertie even said that the other day and that figure includes mobile broadband figures that are not counted by the OECD.

Loved when they quoted the DCMNR FOI’d documents about resources. Muhaha. Punk’d

Fluffy Links – Thursday February 14th 2008

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I had a Moot Court exam thing today so was studying a little bit yesterday and so didn’t have time to do the fluffies. So here they are.

Pat Kenny has a blog!

The Tuppenceworth blog are asking for you to send them details about the management fees you pay. Crowdsourcing!

Reuters continue to do clever things. Like OpenCalais.

Bob Woodward speaks at Google. If you don’t know who he is, Google him!

The Jawbone bluetooth headset ad features snogging rugby players. Dieux de Stade they ain’t.

Chris Walken reading a kiddie story:
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Via Colm Brophy The new Indiana Jones trailer:
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Denis O’Brien does it all and then some!

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

He saved Irish soccer, nothing to do with his hatred of eircom of course, you can get his taxi to the matches, while listening to TodayFM or Newstalk (both his), you can thank him for getting you your job and now he can even get you a date. Rides of all sorts. Anything he can’t do? (Apart from stay in the country long enough to pay taxes)

More from Broadband Bertie

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

800k on broadband, including 90k on mobile broadband. Means we are yadda on OCED table EXCEPT OECD says no to mobile broadband because it’s shit. But why let that get in the way of a good stat that incorrectly boosts our rankings? In fairness I don’t expect Bertie to know this, that’s Lying Ryan’s job and he does it so well. Bertie’s just cogged his default answers. People really are harping on a lot about broadband of late. There’s another special about it on Prime Time tomorrow night as it happens. Ryan is on as is Shane Ross.

Edit: Oh yes and he mentions the National Broadband Scam Scheme saying it will sort the last 10%. What about the other 10% Bertie? The Department seems to have ignored that figure. The National Broadband Scheme is flawed.

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● Fluffy Links – Wednesday 13th February 2008

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Fluffy

Techludd Limerick is on next week, y’going?

How do you solve a problem like Bertia?

More Bertie.

Tom documented the neverending saga with Blueface.

Are you an advertiser? Maybe you might like to take this survey from Cybercom?

So where’s Harry these days? We miss you!

260 people have registered for the Blog Awards already. Crazy!

So via Boards.ie get up to 5 free Sims from O2 and then you can bring them to Tesco and get 10 euros credit bonus per sim from them.

Soupy Norman Christmas special. The Plank Kenny takeoff is too good.
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Via his Jimness, Amy Winehouse at the Grammys. Damn.
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