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Funky Irish t-shirts for men,ladies, kids and babies by Hairy Baby Clothing Company. Irish owned and run.
Author: Ken McGuire
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Creative Links for 2006-08-10
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Listing : Tool Tickets For Sale
Figured I’d throw this out there if anyone is interested. I’ve ended up with spare tickets for Tool and I’m selling two of them (face value plus the booking fee). If anyone is interested I’ve listed them on ebay and you can view the listing right here.
The tickets are two standing tickets (not yet sold out) for Tool in The Point Theatre, Dublin on Wednesday November 22nd. Tickets were €52.50 (+€5.95 per ticket, thank you Ticketmonster) so I’ve listed the two tickets at €115 to start the bidding or €120 buy it now (I ain’t no tout!).
If you happen to overhear anyone in conversation looking for standing tickets just send them my way!
Update: Had been told the standing tickets were sold out but turns out their not (cheers Adam). Notice that the gig isn’t actually sold out either, but I’m selling the tickets all the same…
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Sins Of The Father
Continuing with some viewing for Monday (plus the fact that I had discovered the two results of the NYFS on Google Video), here is the second of the shorts entitled ‘Sins Of The Father’. Running time is just over six minutes and it should do nicely for a cup of tea to help beat that 3 O’Clock Slump.
Click to view the other short, Self Defence… And You. The short above features the track ‘Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking‘ by Snowpatrol, available on ‘Final Straw’ from CDWow.ie. (Affiliate link)
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Self Defence…. And You
I’ve had the pleasure of working with and continuing to work with Young Irish Film Makers for a great number of years now and most recently they have just wrapped the 2006 National Youth Film School, their annual youth film training initiative (thats damn good!).
Anyway, for your Monday viewing, here’s the first short of two that were produced over the few week of the NYFS, each of the shorts being scripted, produced, directed, shot and edited within a week.
Enjoy…
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What AOL users like to browser for?
I keep a strong interest in what my former employers are up to, whether on the European front or the American front but this news over the weekend has hit me a little for six.
Why, why, why would you release data to the public domain about your customer’s search patterns? Why would you scramble their screennames with ID numbers and why would you then try to cover your ass by removing the incriminating data a few hours later?
Seen as they actually pulled down the information, you can now download it all here (just shy of the 450mb mark).
WordPress.com hosted blog, Plenty Of Fish, has some great details on this too including an explanation from AOL’s Andrew Weinstein on what actually happened. Staggering in fairness!
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Creative Links for 2006-08-04
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Website Plagiarism Search – Web Site Content Copyright Protection(tags: plagiarism blogging)
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Sign into all of your IM screen names at once, save your preferences (like sounds and appearances), and if you’d like, store your IM conversations in meebo chat logs!(tags: web2.0)
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How To Manually Update Your Nameservers
This post is targetted at anyone who has had difficulty or continues to have difficulty with Eircom viewing certain websites. In my case, it relates to domains registered from May of this year onwards. While you can wait a few days for Eircom to get their nameservers in gear or let them refresh, here’s a quick fix for you.
- Open your network connections in windows, right-click on whatever connection you use for your broadband (be it wireless or ethernet) and click properties
- In your connection properties window (which pops up), scroll down the main list of items your connection uses to find ‘Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)’
- Under the ‘General’ tab, skip to the second box and tick the radio button for ‘Use the following DNS server addresses
- Set your Primary DNS address to 159.134.237.6 and your Alternative DNS to 159.134.248.17. Please note that these are EIRCOM DNS server addresses
- OK your changes in this window, and OK your changes in your network connections window and hopefully, like me, you’ll find that the sites are now appearing for you!
Bloody pain in the arse, and took me a while to find the old nameservers but at least I’ve got access to the sites I’ve needed anyway. For anyone who is interested, the current Eircom nameservers are
- 213.94.190.194
- 213.94.190.236
but they don’t seem to be refreshing all that well of late! This will impact the name servers on your machine locally, and doesn’t change any settings on your router (as the Eircom router automatically picks up the new 213* address range). You can follow this tutorial if you are not an Eircom customer and need to make local changes to your Primary / Alternative DNS anyway.
To reverse the changes, go back to your network properties screen again via the steps above, go back to your TCP/IP properties and just tick ‘Obtain a DNS server address automatically’ and you’ll be back to square one.
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Problems with Eircom viewing sites?
Three sites of mine including Devious Theatre and World Cup Access have been out of action for almost three days while browsing with an Eircom conntion. Anyone with a Chorus connection, or Eircom connection outside of Kilkenny want to try those sites?
Or anyone know how long it takes an Eircom DNS server to refresh?
Anyone got a big stick I could be the nameservers with?
Update: Works grand on an Esat connection…. just looking like an Eircom issue.
Resolution: Found the details for Eircom’s old DNS servers and used those. So changing from the current 213* variety to 159.134.237.6 (primary) and 159.134.248.17 (secondary) does the trick. No joy in trying to force the nameservers to update though! Anyone else, bar me, had a similar problem in the last two days?
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Creative Links for 2006-07-30
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Presenting the all-time 100 best films as chosen by TIME’s movie critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel. Nice one for a movie buff!(tags: movies)
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Blog coverage of the 2006 Battle Of The Bands taking place in Kilkenny throughout August and September of 2006, by KilkennyMusic.com.
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Still On For A National Blogging Day?
A point that I raised some time ago now was the introduction of a National Blogging Day with a possible date set at August 1st. Just me throwing out ideas, something Mr. Mulley and one or two others seemed to like as well.
Irregardless of whether it takes off or not, or whether it could be shifted to coincide with the Blog Awards you can expect afore mentioned post from me on the day. Hell if the whole thing takes off I can always add a few lines at a later date… just something to get the ball rolling! The idea I think is fairly simple. One day out of the year (my intial suggestion being August 1st), take a few minutes out of your day and throw up a post telling the world, or your readers – whoever – a little about what blogging has done for you in the previous year. Not looking at all the years, just the previous 12 months, that way every year it can be built upon with ease.
Just a few minutes, whether its 2 or 3 lines, a paragraph or a big hearty post!
Maybe it would be nice to have it coincide with the Blog Awards – at least that way you can ensure that there’ll be a bit of a pissup afterwards *ahem* “meet and greet session” *ahem* (thats the right order, yeah? ;))
What do all the good folk of the Blog O’Sphere say, hmmmm?
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MyHome.ie Sold For €50m
Turn to the business section of the Irish Times today or take a listen to the radio and you’ll be hearing that MyHome.ie, originally set up by some of the majory players in the Irish Property market and usually the first port of call for auctioneers and home buyers online, has been sold to the owners of that same business section, The Irish Times.
The Competition Authority has yet to weigh in on the deal but if MyHome.ie has just been flogged for €50m, I would wonder about Daft.ie, originally valued back around the time of the Six Nations (February?) between €10m and €15m.
From the MyHome.ie newsletter this morning…
The deal strengthens MyHome.ie as the leading web advertiser for property in Ireland through our association with the Irish Times, one of Ireland’s leading media organisations covering both print and online.
In practical terms, it’s business as usual for MyHome.ie. We will continue to provide our estate agent clients with the facility to advertise their properties on behalf of vendors and house hunters with the facility to search for property and home related services.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank both our clients and site users for their continued support over the past five and half years. We will continue our commitment to providing you with a quality property search and home services facility.
The sale of MyHome.ie, according to the article (which can be found here via RTE Business) will pocket €40m up front with an additional €10m over time and once business targets are met.
MyHome.ie itself will carry on as a standalone site. Interesting stuff!
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Let Us Snoop VOIP Calls
The Guardian (UK) reports this morning that the Police and various intelligence agencies are still pressing hard to be allowed snoop on VOIP calls. The fact that it is hard to trace VOIP calls “poses significant threats to our democratic society” – seemingly.
Its gas. The same thing happened with mobile phones when Eircell and Esat got big years ago. That was the big fear, that Ireland’s criminal underworld were now escaping the land lines and using mobile phones and text messages to conduct their daily business.
Without these records, VoIP services will become the communication method of choice for criminals and terrorists, secure in the knowledge that their activities are untraceable by law enforcement agencies. I
There’s no real easy way for people to intercept VOIP calls since they’re not physically passing through an exchange (until you start to go offline) and this is the big worry. But requesting that agencies be allowed monitor VOIP calls and traffic? Sure why don’t we just all stick tagging devices on our laptops or just invite your local law enforcement into a conference call the next time you’re trying to organise a drug run or a weapons drop or something.
It’s another area where the technology has outstripped the legislation, the traceability and the powers that we have … You could buy a smart phone or PDA that’s wirelessly enabled that comes pre-loaded with £10 of wireless credit on it, download a program like Skype and then start making calls anonymously, and that’s got to be attractive to a criminal.
I picked myself up a HP 6515w phone earlier this year, I used a pre-paid sim card (refuse a bill for personal use) and I just happen to have a wireless network card in the phone, and a copy of Skype! That should mean I’m all set to enter the criminal underworld – and little did I know it!
With all this talk of policing the net, net neutrality, internet regulatation etc. is there no room left for privacy at all? Or is it that fact that the internet can still provide an element of privacy that scares governments and intelligence agencies? Big Brother might be watching, but he can’t see everything just yet – and I would hope it stays that way too.
The article in itself, is published on today’s Guardian by Peter Warren and while heavily UK based, makes for some great morning reading.
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Creative Links for 2006-07-27
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Now, the world’s most popular web programming language gets even better with an easy to use framework for developing the next generation of web applications.(tags: php opensource)
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Automatically ping services such as Feed Burner, My Yahoo, Technorati, PubSub, Feedster and more(tags: blogging)
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.eu Fiasco Results In 400 Law Suits
So 74,000 domain names (.eu domains) were effectively registered by 3 companies who had set up 400 registrars “as a front” to snap up .eu domain names as soon as they hit the market at landrush stage.
Pavlos has some details with the full story via BBC.
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Most Funding For Irish Tech Firms
Looks like Irish tech firms are on the up yet again according to ENN this afternoon, reporting that around 78% of cumulative funds invested by Enterprise Ireland last year were invested into Irish technology based companies.
With more good news, the article continues….
During the period 2007 to 2012, Enterprise Ireland plans to invest EUR175 million; combined with private sector investments this will generate total funding of EUR1 billion in start-up, early stage and development stage businesses.
Nice going and a grand time to be in a technology business, or so we would be made belive. You can check the article in full at ENN.ie
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Working In Three Columns
So some people are for it, some people are against it, I’ve come to quite like it to be fair. Think it was June Bank Holiday Weekend that I applied the previous theme, having wanted to go on and use a 3 column theme for kenmc.com at that stage. And now, I have.
I’ve been using a three column layout at LiverpoolAccess.com since the blog launched not much over two weeks ago and have become quite accustomed to it. The expansion of the design, CSS layout all provide that extra bit of breathing room.
I’ve also decided to revisit the delivery of content on the blog. World Cup Access (presently dormant) and Liverpool Access have helped me develop my writing style over the past two months, something I feel should be brought out here, without restricting myself to looking at the facts of various technical matters.
Not to say that the blog is going to go mental or anything, just a little more freedom of speech and thoughts around various issues relating to posts made on the blog. I mean, thats what blogging is about right? Freedom of speech, freedom of your own control?
At present, Feedburner is telling me I’ve got 13 feeds burned. Thats from 13 different blogs too I might add as the little blogging empire builds up. But this is, and will remain my primary blog and should get the attention I feel it should get.
Just a little rant for myself while I work out the kinks on the lunch break over the new theme. Now, where the hell is my double espresso!
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Another blog? Ah Ken…
Another blog, another RSS feed but its serving a more short term (3 month) and local (Kilkenny) focus as I’ve just launched KilkennyMusic.com’s coverage of the 2006 Battle Of The Bands, fully aiming to make the best use of the web for the event (which I’m involved in from a judging perspective) which hits the web for the first time ever (in its 5 year history).
The event itself takes place over 5 heat stages August 6th to September 3rd followed by two semifinals and the grand final towards the end of September / early October.
If you’re in the Kilkenny area and you’re a music fan, do check it out! Runs every Sunday from Bank Holiday Sunday with around 20 bands involved.
Blog > 2006 Battle Of The Bands.
On another note… itching to get the decorators out around here again. Creative Imagination has been feeling a little restricted in imagination lately designwise with the running of LiverpoolAccess.com in its three column format…. Hmmmm….