Damien Mulley

Anyone remember The Secret Life of Machines? I remember watching it in school and then on telly at weird hours too. Well you can see many of them on Google Video now and you can even download them on bittorrent with it seems the permission of show creator Tim Hunkin. They’re all quite entertaining and well worth watching. Kids will even enjoy them. Tim was also the bloke that designed the Flying Pigs for Pink Floyd.

Here’s The Secret Life of the Lift:

Kate Bush can sing about em so why not have a programme about them, the Secret Life of the Washing Machine:

The No Asshole rule. Something I want to implement a lot more in recent times.

Shucks, ta.

The hum of the earth. No, not the smell.

Votes from 67 countries. Some reach for the Blog Awards.

Orwell writing tips.

DRM for dads.

The joys of tech support:

Lithium with sock puppets – Polyphonic Spree

Polyphonic – Sgt Peppers

Educamp Ireland – A BarCamp on the Irish Education system. For the resources that schools are given, they do a fantastic job but a great deal more needs to be done.

ByteSense. Analyse your AdSense earnings. Yet another fantastic application from Robin.

Michael Gartenberg, the next Scoble? Been a big fan of Michael for the past few years. A very high quality blogger, I look forward to his new blog.

Clever ad for AXE.

James from Top Gear on the Alabama incident.

Another mod for the Robosapien.

Via Everson:

The one that got away:

eBookers.ie just offered a really bloody nice holiday for a raffle on the night of the blog awards.

The Best Blog Award for the night is still up for grabs. Despite past interest, there doesn’t seem to be much now. Go on, make a bid. Also, we’ll have an official podcast of the event (and many unofficial ones) and we’re looking for sponsorship for that too.

p.s. Insomnia sucks

News from Nialler9:

If you are looking for something different to do tonight, you’re in luck. Something very cool sounding is happening in Christchurch Cathedral and it’s FREE in.

Paul Ayres performs Happy Hardcore tunes as recognisable and playable music on a pipe organ.

And also on the Valentine’s theme, via Kottke, a Wii themed Valentine’s card.

Via Rowan Jeff Han and the coolest user interface I’ve seen in a while.

Dunkin Donuts tells you how to order their coffee.

Spam t-shirts.

Arcade Fire do cover of “Guns of Brixton”.

Well done Jenny Ring. He work to be displayed in the Tate Modern.

Silly laws and regulations?

Via Phil. Badly Drawn Boy in Belfast:

Via the Indo

Sources close to the company said yesterday that BT Ireland is over-staffed and is likely to reconsider its position in relation to residential telecoms services, including fixed-line telephony and broadband services.

Market commentators said yesterday that if BT did decide to pull out of the residential market, it would be a blow to Ireland’s telecoms industry.

Recently, telecoms firm Magnet Networks confirmed it would not be offering Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) broadband services in the future and the Government has scrapped its group broadband scheme for rural areas.

The other, other, other project of mine. After my second BarCamp I started to think that there were so many people there asking the same questions that were asked at the first BarCamp. Whatever is happening between the Enterprise Boards, and EI and other groups and blogs there appears to be a slight knowledge gap of some sort. To fill that gap I’m helping to organise training sessions run via the BusinessAdvisory.ie website called Share IT (name may change if it is already in use).

The idea is that trainers will train startup people, small companies and individuals in areas the trainers have experience in and which is of benefit to the people. All training is free, the trainers volunteer their time to do an hours training and pay their own expenses to get there. More details on this whole idea here.

The first training day will take place in Cork on March 24th in UCC. You have to apply to attend this as spaces are limited. See more on the BusinessAdvisory.ie website. Yes, don’t worry Dublin people, there’ll be one there in April sometime. Hopefully these will start going around the country.

Trainers will always be required so if you are willing to give an hours training in areas that startups need some training in, then leave a note over on the site.

The Business Advisory project itself stems from this idea here and hopefully the “advisory board” will start to take shape during the summer.

Big thanks to Walter, Jenny, Krishna, Conor, Laurence, Richard and Donagh for giving up their saturday and traveling to this.

Also thanks to TJ, Piaras and Joe who are volunteering to do sessions at the Dublin Share IT training day.