Damien Mulley

Paintballing a block of flats?

I put a Web version of the Barr Tribunal Report online. I split the PDF that arrived on CD today and converted each chapter and appendix into a web page so it can be read in most browsers. Antoin also has the PDF of it online. Hope people find this useful.

Barr Tribunal Report Index
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 1 – Introduction
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 2 – Terms of Reference and Interpretation
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 3 – John Carthy – Background
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 4 – The Events of 19th and 20th April 2000
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 5 – The Final Minutes — John Carthy’s Exit from the House and Subsequent Fatal Shooting
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 6 – The Management of the Incident at Abbeylara — Siege Management Principles
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 7 – The Aftermath — Post-Mortem, Forensic and Ballistic Examination
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 8 – Conclusions
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 9 – The Media
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 10 – Rank and Structure in the Garda Siochana and the Role of the Emergency Response Unit
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 11 – Less Lethal Weapons
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 12 – Police Practice in Other Jurisdictions
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 13 – Gun licensing Law and related matters
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 14 – Victim Provoked Police Shooting — ‘‘Suicide by Cop’’
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 15 – Recommendations
Barr Tribunal Report Chapter 16 – Costs
Barr Tribunal Report Appendix 1
Barr Tribunal Report Appendix 2
Barr Tribunal Report Appendix 3
Barr Tribunal Report Appendix 4
Barr Tribunal Report Appendix 7

All the webpages are also in a 800kb zip file here.

Easy Star have done a reggae version of Radiohead’s Ok Computer. You can listen to some of the tracks on their MySpace. Lucky is really good. You can pre-order Readiodread from Amazon.com for $15.98 ex shipping (not UK) or from Musictoday for $12.99 ex shipping. Ships August 22nd.

Track listing:
1. Airbag featuring Horace Andy
2. Paranoid Android featuring Kirsty Rock
3. Subterranean Homesick Alien featuring Junior Jazz
4. Exit Music (For A Film) featuring Sugar Minnot
5. Let Down featuring Toots & The Maytals
6. Karma Police featuring Citizen Cope
7. Fitter Happier featuring Menny More
8. Electioneering featuring Morgan Heritage
9. Climbing Up The Walls featuring Tamar-kali
10. No Surprises featuring The Meditations
11. Lucky featuring Frankie Paul
12. The Tourist featuring Israel Vibration – Skelly Vibe
13. Exit Music (For A Dub)
14. An Airbag Saved My Dub

MyHome.ie sold to Irish Times for €50m. More expansion into new markets by the Irish Times. Maybe in 5 years time they’ll buy IrishBlogs.ie.

EDIT: Thanks Conor!

Hello readers of the paper. Feel free to look about.

Michele suggests the Bodega at 1900 this evening. Sounds like a plan. Who else is about?

Went over the limit yet again. Crazy. Blacknight has already upped my bandwidth and transfer since the site was using up so much per day and they again had to up the limit this morning Now running on “unlimited”. Thank god yesterday was payday! Thanks to Paul and Michele for the great hosting support.

Update:
Traffic stats:

2006 07 23 118.1 MB
2006 07 24 347.9 MB
2006 07 25 6.96 GB
2006 07 27 31.45 GB

I don’t know where the 26th went to. I think maybe the 27th data is for two days. Madness though.

Who’ll come to kiss the ring of Irish bloggers at the Irish election Ard Fheis? Great question from Suzy. She links to a video from ABC on the power of political bloggers in the US.

Iain MacLaren mention that the Taskforce on Active Citizenship has launched a public consultation on the topics of participative democracy, volunteering and citizenship. Fill in the online survey here. I wish Iain would allow comments from non-Blogger account users.

Go Whale watching in Ireland on Sunday Augist 6th.

Adam Maguire was one on Monday. Kind of. His blogging and writing has improved a good deal of late. Well done Adam.

Another well done to Conn Ó Muíneacháin who got funding for a new radio series. Blogger, podcaster, radio producer and great role model. The blurb about his new show:

An Líonra Sóisialta (The Social Network), a series of 64 short episodes over 13 weeks, which aims to introduce the radio-listening, Irish-language community to the world of online social networking.

The Barr Tribunal report is online thanks to Antoin.

Euan Semple suggests having a MySpace for SMEs. What a very clever idea.

This is crazy. I thought the traffic would die down. It’s increased! I think half the traffic today came from Gorilla Mask so thanks to them and also thanks to John Battelle. This stat watching is tiring!

Scoble, Techcrunch, Techmeme, front page of Del.icio.us and populicio.us. Shame I didn’t get higher in Digg, but 89 Diggs is great.

Big thanks to the folks in Blacknight Solutions who easily handled the traffic surge. It’s crazy to see how much bandwidth this ate up too over the past 24 hours. EDIT: Paul from Blacknight let me know I transfered 7 gigs of data today. Damn.

I didn’t beat the Infactahnista’s record of 20k visitors in one day but I got close enough. Thanks to everyone who left comments and linked to me. It really does show that sex and Google does sell.

But holy fuck I made Fleshbot. Woo, I’m so honoured.

I’m sure I’ll be editing the previous post to add in tips on how to use Froogle to find the cheapest chocolates and roses. There was talk of another few guides such as “How to get laid using Yahoo!” and “How to get laid using MSN”. I’m sure there’s far too many jokes that if Microsoft helped you to get laid you’d pick up every type of virus known to humanity.