Since Linkedin are making money from advertising on my Linkedin page.

And Facebook have signed a 240 million dollar deal with Microsoft for exclusive advertising on my Facebook page (and all other Facebook pages).

These sites rely on user generated content. Will people get tired of providing content for free to billion dollar enterprises with no payback?

Maybe I should start a new Facebook Group called "Please pay me if you are making money from advertising on my page".

What do you think?

And, no, I do not want to buy a Linkedin tshirt.

I read these recently and thought they were funny...

Request

In the local the other day there were two lads playing guitar. After they finished a song someone shouted to them;

"here do ye's do requests"

They said they did

"Well **** off cause your bleeding brutal"

Overheard on Wednesday, 26th September 2007 - Clonliffe House by sheriff2



Like a needle in a haystack...

I regularly have a coffee in a coffee-shop on D'Olier Street and it takes me past this nice, softly-spoken bloke from Dublin Bus. I think he must be a supervisor or something. One day, I overheard him talking calmly into his walkie-talkie: "And tell us. By any chance, did you ever find that bus?"

Overheard on Tuesday, 25th September 2007 - D'Olier Street by Anonymous

Great article from Silicon Valley Watcher regarding the Telecoms Luddites in the US.

In his piece, he states that "The cable and telco companies are anti-competitive and their actions will make sure that the US becomes uncompetitive". I cant help but feel that this is just as relevant to Ireland. At least the US have Silicon Valley which is willing and capable of fighting back.

Recently, the MD of eBay Ireland referred to the Irish broadband situation as "Fraudband". Upload speeds of many "Fraudband" packages are still fixed at 256k (even when they are making a song and dance about download speeds of 6MB).

How are we supposed to upload your music, pictures, movies and data and participate in the multimedia online world with upload speeds like this?

I learned that you can understand exactly what a baby is trying to say by the sound it makes when it cries. Listen to the sound the baby makes just before it starts crying or at the start of the crying noise before it gets hysterical. The following are the 5 key sounds and what they mean:

Neh = Hungry
Owh = Tired
Heh = Discomfort
Eairh = Have lower gas
Eh = Need burping

This is known as the Dunstan Baby Language. Try it, its fun and it actually works.

Thinking about the recent events in Burma, the question: is democracy a basic human right occurred to me.

I would say that it is. If so, what are the implications of this?

What do you think?

These are pictures of the actual Delorean from Back to the Future. I took these in Universal Studios in Los Angeles in 2003 but am only getting around to posting them now.

This was one of my favorites



This was one of the award winning ones. I don't know if Ireland quite has the weather for these outdoor living room type gardens.



I have a lot more Bloom photos in the photo album (pw required)

I was in NY for work and as always took a number of photos. Here are some of the more interesting ones:

The Apple store in NY, wonderful flagship store, great bold architecture and some great products and technology inside:



Central park, of course:



Ground zero: