Archive for January, 2006



From Wired comes this story about how investors are going back to ideas from the dot com boom/bust and seeing whether any of them would be now profitable since the market conditions have changed substantially. Back then people weren’t willing to pay for Internet services and broadband wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous as it is today. […]

Become An Executive Producer

I saw Outlaw the movie on More4 news a while ago. Apparently they are trying to fund the film from small donations from lots of people all of whom become `Executive Producers’ and also get things like a DVD of the film. For €15 it isn’t a bad idea!

What Are They Smoking in Donegal?

First they wanted to sue Met Eireann over the weather forecast, now they want to sue the Loney Planet. Has a boatload of American laywers got lost up there or something???

Irish Blog Awards

Damien has done some stellar work on this thus far so the least I can do is blog about the venue etc. Also Awards.ie

Dave’s Rants in Chinese

This is what Dave’s Rants looks like in Chinese, I used Google to translate. I can only imagine how bad the translation is!

Sky by Broadband Update

A while back I wrote about Sky by Broadband. It’s probably worth looking at this post about Sky by Broadband stealing your bandwidth if you’re after installing it.

The Holy Grail of Irish Mapping

Digital TV Mobile

Part of the reason I haven’t posted very much in the past week is that I’ve been working on a couple of new ventures. More news about these will follow but the first is Digital TV Mobile. Digital TV Mobile is a blog that covers all the news in the rapidly growing sphere of TV […]

Updated Great Circle Mapper

I finally got around to updating my travel map with all the places I visited in 2005. I’ve now travelled over 122,000 km in aircraft and been on 5 continents.

Hardest Working 17 Year Old in the World?

Ben Casnocha runs a sucessful business regularly meets high powered executives and still has time to make his High School’s Senior Basketball team! Incredible!





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