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KILKENNY -- Corporate executives openly cite high wage costs and poor infrastructure as reasons to relocate manufacturing outisde of Ireland. But nobody believes the Minister of Finance will borrow to sustain the improvements underway in Irish motorways, broadband or health care.
Sent mail2blog by Nokia 9210i O2 TypePad services.
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KILKENNY -- While visiting the county dump to deposit papers and plastic, I saw a Duchas truck rumbling along . I wonder if it was ever used to deposit rubbish outside the village of Killenaule in South Tipperary. Someone ordered an ordinary worker to dump more than 4000 tonnes of waste in an unlicensed dump three km from Killenaule at Burnchurch, Moyglass. This kind of thing shouldn't happen but it's nothing unusual for some of the older staff that long retired while still drawing down a civil service salary.
Sent mail2blog with Nokia 9210i O2 Typepad service while trundling around Kilkenny.
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KILKENNY -- I have discovered that I get no more than three warnings of impending failure with laptops. I have had one with my IBM TransNote. The problem is a broken connection near where my power cord slips into my laptop. I cannot power up the laptop and it contains the bulk of my work. The problem stems from the laptop being pulled off a desk when a fellow lecturer tripped over its power cord. The cannon plug connection inside the laptop was damaged in the fall from the desk. I'm sure other things were damaged and will surface over time. This means I am connecting to my blog with a Nokia 9210i phone, a Communicator that handles much of my data as well as all of my voice calls.
I need to cite some Cross-Links to content because that listing helps seach engines find my stuff when it is put on my Topgold blog. When I get Dreamweaver and Radio running again on my laptop, I will convert my web-facing material on Topgold to Movable Type and focus my web development down that channel.
Cross-Links 21-22 August 2003
KILKENNY -- I watched the sun rise on Francis Tansey's larger-than-life artwork in the lobby of the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel and thought about the people visiting here (my blog) with "enterprise service management" on their minds. When the first "service management" visitor landed and read material that I had written, I had to dig around to find what the we trying to find. In the case of a facilities manager, "services management" might include the identification of Francis Tansey's art works for a premises. In the case of a web manager, it normally means portal or web services.
In my Media Writing course, we teach a module that relates to this discipline, including coverage of
CLONMEL -- Scott Nowson is doing a PhD thesis on the characteristics of bloggers and needs people to participate in a 15 minute survey. He plans to burrow into May 2003 data from bloggers around the world, then summarise findings about the personality and motivations of those bloggers who participate in his research.
Scott Nowson -- "My blog experiment"
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CLONMEL -- I am burrowing into Movable Type and trying to sort out my gutter content. Although it might make more sense to follow some kind of logical tutorial, I'm entertained by learning through random hyperlink. Thanks to Shelley, I've learned how to integrate recent comments from a separate blog into the right hand gutter area.
<MTEntries lastn="5" sort_order="descend">
<a href="<MTEntryLink>"><MTEntryTitle></a><br />
</MTEntries>
<!--#include virtual="/journal/ssi/recent.shtm"-->
I'll be using server-side includes until I convert over to PHP.
Thanks to Shelley (the girlie matters) for the tip about "recent entries with includes."
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COXION DEVELOPED the Original Web Box, the first USB connected GPRS modem, and now they have the Web Box W10, a Tri-Band GPRS/WLAN PC card. The WebBox W10 offers GSM/GPRS tri-band 900/1800/1900 MHz and IEEE 802.11b WLAN 2.4GHz connectivity in a single PC Card, ensuring that you can connect quickly and easily to the Internet wherever you are in more than 160 countries on five continents.
This card provides more connectivity than the Nokia D211 card. It gives you both data and voice communications, giving you the freedom to send and receive e-mail and make voice calls with same device, and even simultaneously. WebBox W10 also includes a phonebook, and SMS capabilities, providing the full functionality of a cell phone on your laptop.
CLONMEL HOTSPOT -- Bill Kearney created an exporter.root tool for Radio8. This tool creates two exports from Radio. One is suitable for importing blog items into a Movable Type powered weblog site. The other is an OCS exporter of subscribed channels. You can import that OCS file into several other RSS headline readers (such as AmphetaDesk, Newzcrawler, and Headline Viewer).
The exportMT module has the ability to select a date range. You can export all items or just ones that fall into particular date ranges. The tool supports increments of the last 7, 30 and 90 days as well as the current, last and previous three months.
The exportOCS module has the ability to restrict its export to exclude any channels that might have a username/password pair on them. That way it won't export ones from paid-subscription channels or those requiring authentication.
These modules do NOTHING until you trigger them by clicking a button. Nothing runs in the background and NOTHING should be upstreamed. When the modules run they leave their results in the local Radio folders. So you need only run these when you need what they export.
Installing it is very easy. Just copy the exporter.root file into your Radio/Tools folder. You can find this folder from within the Radio application by pulling down the Radio menu. Select Folders and the select Radio UserLand. This should open a window to the filesystem. In that folder there should be a tools folder. Copy exporter.root into that folder.
To ensure it runs, you should quit Radio and then estart it. Radio will pick up the new .root tool. You can see its settings from the http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/tools link.
Bill Kearney -- "Radio 8 exporter"
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CALLAN -- Patrick O'Beirne reminds me of this Long Bet which matures in 2007:
In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.Yes: Dave Winer No: Martin Nisenholtz $2,000 ($1,000 each) on the bet.
MOST PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA they are sitting alongside authoring and distribution technologies that make it very simple to set up their own personalcast channel. In fact, I didn't think most blogging software was up to the task until I had seen several solo bloggers discover the powerful effect of integrating text, sound and video into their blogs. They did it without fanfare and normally with their personal equipment.
For the most part, they ignore mainstream commentators like Rush Limbaugh and Andrew Orlowski who object to the white noise of blogging. Limbaugh says
A friend of mine defined the term, derived from "web log," as a nerd with a journalist degree and no social life who spends most days and all nights writing e-mails to himself and his friends in hopes of attracting attention from traditional media outlets.I don't think most bloggers want to be personally acknowledged. Instead, I think most bloggers who have remained active for more than two years sustain themselves through the knowledge that their blogging promotes a message, enhances a brand, takes a slice of a marketing channel, or facilitates the harvesting of information. These are "double derivative deliverables" which means they subordinate pride of authorship to higher tasks such as an analysis of consumer behaviour or the placement of a meme into the permanent record of the Internet.
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