Free Curry In Dublin

Roll up, roll up, there’s free curry in Dublin. Well maybe not “free” but there’s a chance of a meetup over a fine plate of food in Dublin tomorrow night in the company of Paul Walsh and anyone else who wants to attend. Its going down in Jaipur on South Great George’s St. in Dublin tomorrow evening at seven and usual ’scruffy start-up attire’ is the dress code

Check out the Web 2.0 Ireland blog and Jaipur (damn… I love Indian food and all - do you deliver to Kilkenny at all?).

Our Christmas podcast was actually recorded sitting around an Indian takeaway and a few bottles of Cobra… perfect ammunition for podcasting!

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Bar Camp Dublin - Whats The Craic?

Rumours abound in relation to Bar Camp Dublin, don’t know if the one about U2 playing at the lunch break is true but you never know. Seen as the blog has been set up, has anyone any official - or unofficial - updates on the meet?

O2’s Site Gives No End Of Problems

How many times should one have to register or re-register on their mobile operator’s website? After having no joy in trying to log in to the site yesterday I’ve been given this message this morning…

If you have acquired an O2 phone since registering for My o2 then you have a couple of options open to you. You can:

Continue to use your current user name and password when you log in to My O2; this will mean that you can not avail of our free web text service and we can not update your phone details on your My O2 home page.

Re-register for MyO2 using your mobile number; this will mean that you can avail of our free web text service and we will update your phone details on your My O2 home page. You will however have to choose a new o2.ie email address.

In fairness, I’ve been an O2 customer since the old dodgy DOL.ie days. They know I’ve got a phone, hell I only used the website to pay my phone bill during the week - so why re-register? Not as bad as the time I logged in and got someone else’s address book I guess!

All I want to do is send a text message - but no. No text messages, no access to my address book, no access to group contacts… Anyone else having problems with them this weekend? Ever since that big security update last year the site has been nothing short of a pain in the arse to use.

Fox Gunning For YouTube, Google

YouTube has been served - with a subpoena that is, to reveal the identity behind one particular YouTube member following the appearance of full episodes of 24 and The Simpsons on the site.

A browse on TV.com over breakfast turned up this story showing Fox are gunning for YouTube under the Digital Copyright Act. What they do with the person if their identity is revealed remains to be seen but it can’t be all that good! As of this morning it appears there is no word or reaction from YouTube, at least in the public domain so it will be interesting to see how it pans out or just how tough it gets for YouTube in the future.

Odds are nowadays that if you missed a clip from a show you’ll be able to find it on YouTube, or some other video sharing site. No word on RTE scrambling for additional license fees for being able to catch clips of The Panel or Podge and Rodge on it anyway…

….yet.

Less Than 24 Hours To Nominate

It’s 1AM, I’m just in the door from a gig, the blog tells me it took 62.38 second to load the page to write a post but all of that is besides the point people!

The real point is that there is less than 24 hours to get your nominations in for the 2007 Irish Blog Awards. There are 21 categories in total, you don’t have to nominate someone for every category but if you feel a blog - any blog - is deserving of a nomination then do your bit for the Irish blogosphere and nominate them.

Don’t forget, this is still the nominations stage. The shortlisting and voting is yet to kick off - and thats another story altogether!

Get Started Podcasting - And Earn Money Doing It

I don’t know if this site was brought up during the podcasting talk at Bar Camp last weekend but I stumbled across MyPodcast.com today and it seems like it could do the trick in terms of getting people podcasting.

From the feedback at Bar Camp and reading some of the reviews, many people are surprised at how quick a podcast can be put together and that there isn’t a real myth to the process. Sure enough, when we record our own podcast for KilkennyMusic.com we’re using a Pro Tools rig, a combination of SM58s, a Behringer B1 or a Samson C01U, and a heap of plugins (to produce some broadcast quality sound) but a mic from the local pound shop and a few minutes of your time can go a long way.

MyPodcast.com gives you the software to do it all, for free, gets you recording, hosts your podcasts with unlimited bandwidth and allows you to earn some cash back by allocating ad spots that are dotted into your podcast when uploaded. You get to choose where abouts you want to insert the ad, plus over time and as your podcast potentially grows in terms of popularity, they offer the chance to gain exclusive advertising deals. For people looking to host podcasts, it might not be a bad idea - unlimited bandwidth for popular podcasts, with free hosting, sounds pretty good to me.

Of course, always read the terms and conditions…

By posting content to any public area of MyPodcast, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to MyPodcast and its members, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information, rights of publicity, and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works and other media, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

…which are quite good and informative if you’re into that stuff (which you should be, after all, these are YOUR recordings!)

Anyway, check it out for yourselves…

Comments Error Fixed

As highlighted by Keith this morning, and realised by myself last night, error messages have been appearing on the blog since the WP2.1 update yesterday when you go to post a comment.

This was caused by a problem in the Subscribe To Comments plugin, which has been resolved by updating to the latest version (2.1). If you don’t already allow people to subscribe to comments via email I would suggest it, any time there’s the opportunity to do it on an interesting blog post I’ll take it…

Top notch plugin too…

Wordpress Upgrade Fairly Painless

Pretty painless upgrade to Wordpress 2.1. Started the ball rolling about 9:10 and its done as of now (bulk of it was me backing up EVERYTHING from the server, including the DB, something I should have done long ago).

Initial impressions seem fine, few changes to the backend including the way the links are worked. Had to make a template tweak or two in order to display the links by category again ( get_links_list() bundles them all together, drop in ‘id’ - get_links_list(’id’) and you’re laughing). Hopefully it will speed things up a little bit while browsing and posting.

Also added the ‘Snap Preview Anywhere‘ plugin to the theme - think its nice to get a view of sites you’re being linked off to, spread the love and all that craic. Register on the site for your key, download and install the plugin, enter said key and away you go.

Update: Triple post due to Internal 500 error…. have to check about that. Also manage area isn’t displaying any posts…. again, gotta check that out, likely the upload.
Update 2: Above problems fix…. also replaced out Ultimate Tag Warrior to the latest version, seemed to help.
Update 3: Think I was wrong about that…. could be a project for lunch time!

Wordpress 2.1 - Get It While Its Hot

Packed with some interesting new features and developments, Wordpress 2.1 was released tonight and is available for download. Now, armed with more info on Wordpress MU than you can shake a stick at after the weekend its time to get cracking on a multiuser install at KilkennyMusic.com. A 1.1 upgrade on the way I think?

A quick episode of Commander In Chief then its off to update kenmc.com…

Mobile Phones To Be Banned At Open Championship

Via the BBC comes news that mobile phones will be banned from the course at the Open Championship this year, following suit with many other golfing and sporting events from 2006. Mobiles were banned at the Ryder Cup in Kildare last year so Irish visitors to the event won’t be strange to the new procedures to be put in place yet it will be interesting to see if there is a knock on effect at other sporting events (soccer, GAA, snooker etc).

One of the main reasons is down to photos and video footage leaking to the press and the web before authorised journalists have a chance to get their content back to their respective papers. You can’t deny the power of the internet for too long though…

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