Inside View from Ireland

Feedster Hacks

FEEDSTER HACKS -- I think Feedster offers the fastest technology for searching blogs, if only because it stores only the text information it finds in the RSS feeds. Feedster Hacks deserves careful reading by anybody who depends upon gaining knowledge to increase their productivity. Some gems:

White Stripes

FLICKR -- One of the feelings I like to get when in my upstairs bathroom is a sensation of white sand and open space. The white floors gleam when clean and the large bathroom window splashes sunshine into the space for most of the day. But the sunshine doesn't make the inside room look as attractive as this pier shot by Akino

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HP5550C Drivers

HP -- Why is it so difficult to locate XP USB drivers for the HP Scanjet 5550C? I've uploaded mine to share and share alike. 

Pictures of our time

TEN BY TEN -- Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

Pron Clips

CONCERNED THAT I might need some Google juice but knowing that this post will also attract waves of comment spammers, I'm sharing some pron clips that I stumbled across in my referrer logs. They're from a Lyzardly Photo Set and much tamer than Euan Semple's latest foray into the banned words list. My Border Manager prevents many inappropriately labeled file names from transiting the network. I'm pushing it when I offer technical advice on how to photocopy your bum, an activity I discovered forms an integral part of many Irish office Christmas parties. There's a problem when an electronic warden prevents students from exploring playfulness of expression. Lacking that exploration, they won't develop a sophisticated sense of visual aesthetics and they won't understand past Irish greats, such as Ulysses or be able to view full-frontals by Michelangelo or Mapplethorpe. They might not learn how to write. But I know as long as they learn through a virtual classroom, they will appreciate the fact that the internet will work around blockades and content sweepers. If you want it, you can find it with the right set of internet tools. That's an important fact of the wired classroom I have learned to appreciate the most.  

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Lyzardly Moblog for snaps that bring me back to NYC.

Euan Semple -- "No more Mr Nice Guy"

Bonus Links: Mixed Nuts and Grabbers from Flickr.

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Ireland wins with Bush victory

SUNDAY TIMES -- Damien Kiberd points out that "bad news for Kerry is good for Ireland" because Kerry's plans for a new way to tax corporate profits could have gutted a big slice of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Ireland. On the stump in Wisconsin, Kerry told small groups of workers that, once elected, it would not take more than a nanosecond for him to reverse the US tax laws that allowed big corporations to outsource production and record their profits in other jurisdictions. Kiberd followed the proclamations and offered a well-researched synopsis.