Damien Mulley

Casiotone for the painfully alone – Live outside in Paris

Cold War Kids – We used to vacation (live and acoustic and out of synch!)

Meat Beat Manifesto – Edge of no control

I just got emailed a pdf scan of a letter that has been posted to me via a legal firm on behalf of Sky Handling Partners. They have requested I take down the two posts about Sky Handling Partners.

Note: They have not threatened litigation and have not asked for an apology.

It seems Sky Handling Partners have called the Gardai too. They also chastised me on my use of bad language. Yes, really! How many people have ever seen a solicitor’s letter than contains the word cunt at least three times? ME! I’m sorry but I can’t post the letter on my blog, thus why I’m giving you all the highlights.

I will not be taking the blog posts down.

This is my first takedown notice. I’m framing it and replacing my framed copy of Joan Burton in her pink suit with that on the shrine. Sorry Joan, the fickle tastes of bloggers. It was nice though. Really.

Pranksters put a mushroom cloud into a weather report.

Vote for John.

Nice Charity Links meme going about. Add some charity links to your blog posts.

Check out cork band Hooray for Humans.

Over a million people are on fibre in the States and they are still beating themselves up for poor broadband penetration. Heh.

Via Una Los Campesinos – ‘You! Me! Dancing!’. It’s very Dinosaur Jr. in my music mind.

If you’ve not seen the last episode of the Sopranos, do not watch this spoof with Hilary and Bill Clinton. Now if only Bertie had this sense of fun:

My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes (Cut to Lost in Translation)

Two young brothers do a cover of “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight ” by Postal Service. Fantastic

UPDATE: Legal letters sent to me demanding I take this post down.

This morning I noticed someone snooping around my website after coming to the site with the search “sky handling partners”. It has happened before. Now for some background, I have had issues with this crowd losing my baggage. See my Sky Handling Partners are… post.

Just before lunch I started getting email confirmations from dating sites, including gay ones saying my account for their site has now been created. Seems someone was creating profiles saying I was looking to meet men and had rather interesting profile descriptions. One of the emails disclosed the IP address where the person submitted the details from:

62.77.175.251

A quick reverse DNS shows that the IP allocation of this eircom customer is:

inetnum: 62.77.175.248 – 62.77.175.255
netname: CITYJETHLING
descr: City Jet Handling Dublin.

City Jet Handling is the former name of Sky Handling Partners. Dun dun dun. Now to be clear, it is not concrete yet that Sky Handling Partners rent this IP but according to the DNS details, it is them. I will check from another source if this lot do not get back to me.

I contacted them before lunch and said I wanted to report abuse coming from that IP. They took my phone number when I asked to speak to a manager. They would not put me through to a manager as requested.

I heard nothing back by 15.55 so I called them back, spoke to a girl who didn’t know anything about this and wanted to take my details. I strongly said I was not going to be called back, let me talk to a manager. After much talking in the background I got put through to another woman who was aware of my complaint and said their IT person was investigating. I asked how, since no details apart from my mobile number were ever taken. They grudingly took details. I really didn’t like the attitude.

I pointed out that signing up to dating websites using my details was fraud and I could happily call the Gardai and let them sort it out. Quoting from Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) Act,. 2001 to the lady seemed to make her take the matter seriously. I also pointed out I felt that posting untrue details about me on at least 3 websites was not on, especially what was written and I said I felt I was libeled. They took my phone number and said they’d get back to me and again I did not like their noticeablely angry tone. I said they had an hour.

It has now been an hour and they have not contacted me.

What do you think I should do next? (A link to this would be appreciated)

Update: Go here to DIGG this.

Further Update: Big thanks to my Irish Web hosting company – Blacknight who moved me to a new dual quad core server with lots of ram since the post hit the front page of DIGG.

“Cois Fharraige 2007”, Ireland’s first surf and music festival.

Sony Ericsson in association with MCD announces this three-day festival, which will take place in Co. Clare on the 7th, 8th, 9th September 2007

Timetable:

Friday 7th September

Fun Lovin’ Criminals, The Blizzards, Roisin Murphy, Majella Murphy

Saturday 8th September

Ocean Colour Scene, Republic of Loose, The Enemy, 28 Costumes, The Kinetiks

Sunday 9th September

Kila, Tom Baxter, Buffalo Souljah, Delorentos, The Wombats, Amy MacDonald

Update: Padd Casey added to Saturday line-up. Badly Drawn Boy added to Sunday line-up.

Additionally, a carnival of water sport activities will take place across Kilkee Bay over the three day weekend. These activities will include an official Surfing Event on the breathtaking Doughmore beach in Doonbeg on Saturday the 8th (in association with the West Coast Surf Club).

Further details for entry to the surfing event can be found on www.Coisfharraige.com, which goes live on Friday 22nd June 2007.

Tickets for Cois Fharraige Surf Festival go on sale on Friday 29th June at 9am.

· Tickets for each individual day 29.50 euro

· Early Bird Three day Festival Ticket 69.50 euro

(Available to purchase until August 18th 2007 only)

· Three day Festival Ticket 84.50 euro

(Available to purchase from August 19th 2007)

Update:
For those unable to find where to get tickets:
Three day ticket from Ticketmaster.
One day tickets from Ticketmaster.

Thanks to a little hack with Hypemachine, I’ve got a handy flash player playing all the recent mp3s that Nialler9 has stuck on his blog:

Also, if you want to hear all the tracks from I guess I’m Floating, just click on the image:

or Hi-Fi Popcorn:

Blogs have to be registered on Hypemachine for you to listen to them. so I’ve submitted UnaRocks and On the Record

ZX Spectrum games hidden in vinyls. Damn. Nostalgia.

There’s big pimping and there’s superstellar pimping. Drugs are still bad though.

No bike lanes? Paint your own. Not that Irish drivers obey them anyway.

Fun advertising.

Rejected Wii games:

Rejected Wii Games – Watch more free videos

James – Laid

James – Destiny Calling

New Years – Casiontone for the painfully alone with stopmotion vid

Boy in Static – Where it ends

Green. White. Orange. Not Gold. Get it right.

I like the new Ireland version of YouTube. The featured videos are yawntastic but I like seeing what appear to be the most recent Irish videos uploaded. It seems a new video is going online every 10-20 minutes. Nothing compared to YouTube overall but that’s very encouraging. Also you can see the list of Most Viewed Irish Content today. Very handy, nice to see some better stats.

If you remove the most viewed videos of all time which do not have Irish content. (The most viewed video uploaded by an Irish person is an Aerosmith video, watched over 2.4 million times.) then the most watched video that an Irish person uploaded but was not filmed in Ireland was of dominos using PCs, filmed in California. Love the Irish accent. So an Irish uploader AND contains some Irish content is a clip from the TV show naked camera, watched 1.29M times. RTE NEED to get their stuff onto YouTube where they’d clean up and reach a whole new audience. It makes sense chaps:

Next is non-commercial. The most watched non-Commerical video uploaded by an Irish person is Lorcan Finnegan‘s Sweettalk which was watched 630,000 times:

But still, Lorcan is a pro, so the most watched amateur Irish video uploaded by an Irish person is…

An I.R.A. video. Lovely. Watched 400,000 times. Actually the clips themselves look like they are from pro news services. Sigh.

So it looks like the most watched, homemade video is … kids kicking the shit out of each other. Watched 330,000 times and set to awful music:

But there’s some good stuff too.

A guy called Ciaran Clancy did a video clip using scenes from the movie Baraka set to the music of The Cars are the Stars (formerly Playdoh). I like.