Inside View from Ireland

Mobile bloglines

BLOGLINES -- I am a Bloglines fan, turned on by the solid reliability of the program and by its elegant footprint at www.bloglines.com/mobile, the one I use on my Nokia 9500. When I first introduce people to RSS, I take them through my public Bloglines account.

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Thanks for the tips from Russ Beattie's favorites page.
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Viceversa knives

NO KITCHEN is complete without a knife set with attitude. Start yours with the Italian Viceversa collection. I'd buy this one by Raffaele Iannello but I cannot see a way to buy from viceversa online in the Italian catalogue. I'd like to have this red character in my kitchen. The designer was born in Catania (downwind from Sigonella Naval Air Station where I once hibernated) and he studied Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic. He created the official websites for Bulgari, Chicco, and Pioneer.

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Even the Viceversa designers make poster-perfect displays.

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Beyond MLE

DUBLIN -- What lies beyond Media Lab Europe? I am as curious as John McCormac who points out, "The Irish government is intent on replacing MLE with a real research operation."

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John McCormac -- "Media Lab Europe: Swift's Grand Academy"
Adrian Weckler -- "Media Lab RIP"
More seen by IrishEyes:

Jeremy Clarkson Chewing Gum

SUNDAY TIMES -- Jeremy Clarkson puts chewing gum in the crosshairs and ends up reducing anti-chewing gum crusaders to a motley group of losers. Clarkson writes:

Sunday snippets

KILKENNY -- The back-handers of government-aided enterprise will have to change now that Neelie Kroes, the EU Competition Commissioner has pledged to take a tough line in policing State aid. Intel's Fab 24.2 in Leixlip will lose some of the millions of euro of government aid if Ireland is to follow the EU's view in terms of "less and better" support. The Irish government would have absorbed much (if not most) of the capital construction costs for the Intel plant. It will be hard to offer that hand-out now, since the EU has reviewed the back office paperwork behind the Intel deal.

Free Dublin WiFi Temple Bar

TEMPLE BAR -- There's free internet access, email service and Skype VoIP service in Temple Bar Square, courtesy of Eircom. With a Nokia 9500, that means I get free moblog authoring. That's something Richard Delevan should consider as a compelling reason to upgrade from his Nokia 9210. Everything is faster with a Nokia 9500. With free Eircom WiFi service, everything got got cheaper.

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How Paris got hacked

IT'S PROBABLY NOT SMARTto use a common name as a password. Paris Hilton did and she gave away her phone records to the world. Hilton uses a Sidekick II and that little piece of silicon has no sophisticated lock-down feature on it. You could probably get the phone numbers in the online accounts of most people in Ireland by trawling through the O2 and Vodafone sites with known numbers and names of pets. Social passwords are just too easy. By the way, the name of my dog is "Doggie" for anyone interested in this sort of thing.

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Brian McWilliams -- "How Paris Got Hacked"  with screen grab of the compromised account.

Russ Beattie: "Mobile data is sensitive data."
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Open Note to Irish Rail

UNDERWAY -- Irish Rail needs to advertise a text number that can be used to report problems with services. For the third time in 2005, I have paid €26 to ride the smoking train. Years ago, I would simply sit down where I preferred--smoking or no smoking. Today, Irish Rail says there is no smoking aboard trains. I have clothing that smells otherwise. I would like to text this fact to Irish Rail while underway. Perhaps I could get advice on where to find a no smoking carriage.

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Sent mail2blog using Nokia 9500 Typepad service while en route Athy-Kilkenny. Monitoring this on Bloglines, Technorati and Feedster.

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Open Note to AerLingus

TEMPLE BAR -- One day after I booked a return ticket for two from Dublin to Denver, AerLingus Sales called and left a message on my mobile phone. When I returned the call, I entered a holding pattern so I dropped the call after four minutes. This started a process of consideration.

Friday filings

TEMPLE BAR -- The biggest discovery I have made today is the presence of a free Eircom node in the heart of Temple Bar. Thanks to "Eircom 130", you get this blog post at no charge.

I had a quick read of several Irish broadsheets but only skimmed over the leading story about the quashed convictions in the Brian Murphy case. The legal system is not my forte. In Ireland, it favours the accused. Other tidbits: