Damien Mulley

I think I may have missed it in the irishblogs but apparently some guys up in the North said something that meant something or something.

:Update as of August 2nd: Hello BBC Readers! May I suggest you all visit and bookmark Slugger O’Toole as it is the best website on the politics of Northern Ireland.

Booked 4 tickets so far:

Fans who’d like to secure tickets to the autumn european tour can now do so on sigur rós’s ticket service Klink.is in some cases, these pre-sale tickets are specially reserved seats for the fans. if the venue does not provide specially reserved seating, klink will provide wristbands to allow early entry into the venue to make sure you get a good spot.

Begin backpatting of a sort: So Tom Raftery puts me in the same league as Jonathan Schwartz and Seth Godin and some chap that runs an airplane company that makes “Jumbos”, whatever the hell they are. Thank you Tom, I’m honoured in a way.

My reasons for no comments are all to do with me being lazy and technically ignorant. I was getting hammered on a daily basis with comment and trackback spam. I implemented MT Blacklist but I found even with manually updating it daily, the spammers were outgunning the Blacklist updates.

So, my short-term solution was to block all comments and trackbacks and the long-term solution was to make a switch to a better solution, such as wordpress. Unfortunately I need to educate myself on how to move from MT to WordPress. Now, maybe it’s handy for me that this site is hosted with Blacknight and that Michele is such a WordPress proponent. Perhaps he will in the goodness of his heart offer to do the conversion for me, once I have all of this backed up. *flutters eyelids at Mr. Neylon*

You know, there may be some business for someone that goes around like a Blog handyman and fixes up peoples blogs and helps them to move to a different blogging platform. I’d be happy to give someone a few quid to do it for me.

Following on from my recent post suggesting that we link to the OpenEir pages so that they are boosted in Google for the search phrase GPS In Ireland it now looks like Eirepreneur is coming second for that search phrase and fifth for the phrase GPS Ireland. So James, noticed any increase in traffic to the site?

The sight of the two boys, crying their eyes out, chained together with handcuffs, behind bars, surrounded by adults who were either powerless or afraid to defend them is much much more disturbing. This photo has the combined power of the reality of a photograph and disturbing imagery of an artistic composition.

It is a haunting image that has left me feeling very raw and will remain with me for a long long time.

That’s a quote from boards.ie, they are talking about the above pic. Shortly afterwards the two boys, one aged 18 the other 17 were hanged because they had sex with each other.

The two youths — identified only by their initials as M.A. and A.M., were hanged on July 19 in Edalat (Justice) Square in the city of Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, on the orders of Court No. 19.

Thinking About Suicide Bombers

Remember the 1996 movie Independence Day? One of the characters was a grizzled old fighter pilot who had been kidnapped and degraded by the alien invaders years before. He flew his plane into the alien spaceship when his air-to-air missile jammed, causing the spaceship to explode. Everybody in the movie, as well as the audience, considered this suicide bomber a hero.

What’s the difference?

I’ve an idea for the irishblogs in regards to using tags to allow aggregators like PlanetOfTheBlogs and IrishBlogs to find specific information. For now it would be pub and restaurant reviews. With everyone now having blogs, why should they reproduce their content on other sites when all other sites have to do is scrape theirs?

Ryan has an excellent Pub Review site but to add content to it he has to have dedicated posters who he trusts. What if PlanetOftheBlogs aggregated any posts on his site and anyone elses in their list of blogs that had the tag irishpubs? Same goes for restaurant reviews. Let the people do the work of tagging their reviews and even submitting the url of their rss feeds, besides seeking out reviewers.

The benefit for Ryan and his site would be an increase in traffic as the central aggregator would probably send far more people to him.

Maybe this could be added on to the to-do list for John Breslin? I know you’re reading this John. 🙂

I came up with this idea after Jarvis pointed to this review of Dinnerbuzz and it seems like a perfect idea for the Irish boggersphere. With a few use of tags such as pubreview or irishpubs or irishrestaurants it could be easily implemneted by some clever programmers i.e. NOT me.

Not visited Ryan’s website in an age until this morning as I wanted to do some research on another idea for an irishblog thing. (More in another post) This is Ryan’s blog and this is Ryan’s Flickr site.

I’d read Donncha praise Ryan in a few posts but just didn’t have time to look at the site. Donncha himself has some fantastic photos like this. Anyways, bookmark both sites.

Could I also suggest that the lads tag their photo posts as irishphotos? Be nice to do searches and come up with all those gems.

Nathan Torkington has his kids tell it how it is. The last word, which I suppose you could call the “punchline” is fairly powerful. I wonder is there an Irish version of this?

Lots of good comments here on it. His kids are cute too and the way they react to saying some of the words is precious. Exposing the kids to these words is not wrong at all. Compare this to the kids dancing on the grave of Matthew Shephard and screaming “God hates fags” at pride marches.

It’s the overriding attitude behind the words that is more important. You can use simple words that will get around the strictest censor and still cause absolute offense and harm.