Inside View from Ireland

Get a shirt online signed by Irish Team

EBAY -- Bids open at $300 for an Official Republic of Ireland Soccer Jersey signed by the entire, current Senior International Soccer Squad, including superstars John O'Shea and Robbie Keane. Proceeds from the auction go to charity. I think this is a unique opportunity to own a piece of footballing history. I would enjoy sitting under it wherever it was hanging.

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RALet -- Rush and Lusk Educate Together Primary School in Rush, Co Dublin
Underway in Ireland -- shirts online in Ireland
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Fat pipes for bulk mail

ANTIVIRUS -- Ross Cooney uses a fat pipe that sits on a 42Mb backbone to support bulk mail services. It's not smart to try to send e-mail through an standard ISP because other users have to wait until your email leaves the queue before they can send email.

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Antivirus.ie -- "Services for SMEs"
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How much should tracks cost

NY TIMES -- "As musical recordings have increasingly shed their physical form, the record industry and its customers have been at odds over what it all should cost."

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Amy Harmon -- "What price music?"
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Listening to classroom culture

CLONMEL HOTSPOT -- One of the subtle things that a circle of student blogs provides is the subtle insights they provide to a particular college culture. I've sparked a blogging circle that involves around two dozen students and think that they might provide guidance counselors and prospective applicants with an inside view of the multimedia culture in Tipperary Institute.

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John Porcaro -- "The Inner Workings"
Caroline McNamara -- "Horoscopes"
Diane Reischling -- a four star employee blog
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Recoined Words

WORD SPY -- John Robb introduced me to Word Spy, a Web site and mailing list devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance.

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Kathy Foley would like the Word Spy alert list.
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Cold technology

ECONOMIST -- The hottest tech I have ever witnessed was the unbelieveable assortment of Y2K packages, but theose heady days are over. Companies now regard tech spending as little more than payment for utilities. Technology spending has continued growing slowly in Ireland, with an emphasis on "cold technology," that providing incremental improvement. In Forrester's opinion, the hottest cold tech is Linux.

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Economist -- "Some like it cold"

Sustainable rural housing

KILKENNY -- I grew up in what I felt was an isolated rural environment because it was more than two miles to the nearest bus stop. You had to plan your movements because you normally needed a lift to get things. When I see new homes built more than two miles from towns or cities, I wonder if owners realise how isolated they can be. And I wonder if they expect to have their social needs accommodated by the State when they grow older.

Computers in the home

KILKENNY -- My home is smarter than my granny's because I have more computers in it. When I look around my home to see the most durable piece of home electronics, I look at my washer and marvel at its intelligence. Bosch put bits of computer intelligence inside my washer which causes it to clean clothes faster, with less water and shorter cycles. We use our washer twice a week and it keeps us clean. When I got a washer, I got my Saturday mornings back because I no longer spend those mornings in a self-serve laundry. I can't imagine needing a washer that's more intelligent, but neither did my grandmother. If she were alive today, my grandmother would appreciate the push buttons and rotating dials on my Bosch Maxx. Their analogue style hides the machine's digital intelligence.

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Slashdot -- "What's the oldest hardware you are still using?"
John Hannafin -- "Students with home computers"
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Fighting to preserve digital cave markings

WIRED -- "Though a cave painting in pigment on rock may survive millions of years without any action on the part of archivists, the same is not true of digital works, says Brewster Kahle. The DMCE needs to stand down in matters related to the Internet Archive.

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Wired -- "Fighting to preserve old programs"
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Hotdesk sync

UNDERWAY -- I carry a filofax, a copybook, a laptop, a Communicator, a Minidisc Recorder and a USB data key. My daily challenge is synchronsing them when I move between different desks throughout the day. The USB key continues to prove itself the most useful cross-platform sync tool. I need to figure out a way to get a 512MB key because the audioclips I carry take up gobs of space. Or perhaps I need to figure out a way to amplify the sound from the MDR to fill a classroom, without carrying a set of speakers under arms.

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Sent mail2blog using Nokia Communicator Vodafone TypePad service from the Kilkenny Train Station.
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