If you’re not Irish you probably don’t know about Bosco, but if you grew up in the 80’s he’ll be instantly familiar. The Bosco Files has been around for a while but now, here’s a petition to bring back Bosco!
Maybe now they can answer why bosco has red cheeks, and will Frank be back to do a comedy intro?
Later.. The Bosco DVD is out! As is the Wanderly Wagon one! Here’s a picture of them in HMV, Cork a week ago. Did I buy? Err, no.
Donal posted that the The Lobby Bar will host a series of music events at the Half Moon Theatre. Looks like a couple of good gigs too!
I took an amazing photo of their front door 2 weeks ago. No it’s not amazing, it’s only a front door. *shrug*
Ray D’Arcy announced earlier that the closing date for digital photos by email is now Wednesday night, not next weekend as previously reported. Good thing I had most of these finished last night!
Now it’s up to the judges.
BASIS – could be very useful if you’re starting out in business.
The Sunday Times last week published several articles on pensions. There’s some good advice lurking there so go read them if you’re planning on living until after retirement!
October 1st is here and Ray and co were on the radio this morning encouraging everyone to get out there and take some photos! They were originally meant to broadcast from 11 to 1, but they locked themselves in the studio until 2pm! The discussion did degenerate into talking about handbags but it was great anyway!
I bumped into Ryan but he went his own way after half an hour. To be honest, it wasn’t a great day for me – frequent showers meant I had to wear a jacket, but between showers it was reasonably warm. Add that to a late night last night and I was struggling to keep my interest going. I have a few good shots which I will submit to Today FM, and eventually they’ll appear here too, but as Ryan said, there wasn’t much happening in the city.
It’s looking like a nice evening so I may take a walk about later around Blarney, you never know what might happen!
Edit: There’s a possible 51 shots from my walk around town that I’ll edit and submit. I have to work on them properly, but Bibblelite does a great job batch converting RAW files to Jpeg, and getting the colour balance right. Dcraw and UFraw both have problems with auto-wb on the Canon 20D in my experience.
Later still… I realised today (Sunday), that ufraw doesn’t keep the exif data when I import RAW files into the GIMP. If they check that for date and time info they might presume I was cheating and posting older images. I could tell them, “RAW images on request” I suppose.
Ray D’Arcy who presents a show on Today FM wants everyone to take photos next Saturday! The photos will be collected and printed in a book titled, “Us” with all proceeds going to charity. The book will capture a snapshot of Irish society that day.
To submit your photos, email them to us @ todayfm.com on Saturday. Photos will not be accepted before that date but I think they will accept contributions afterwards because not everyone has access to a computer at the weekend.
They’re targeting the mobile phone brigade too, and I’m sure Vodafone, O2, Meteor and 3 and ringing their hands in glee at the prospect of so much gprs data being transmitted across their expensive networks!
One issue I haven’t heard mentioned is that of model release forms. A release form is required if a photo is to be published commercially (although news items differ I think?). I emailed them about an hour ago but it was near the end of the show. Hopefully they’ll respond tomorrow.
I’ll be out taking shots on Saturday around Cork City, and perhaps elsewhere. I’d love to have a photo published! 🙂
Later… looks like they ignored my email and text about model release forms. Hope they don’t get into trouble over that.
it@cork are organising a conference called “Breaking the Barriers” on November 30th. As part of that day, Robert Scoble will be giving a talk, “Blogging for Business” which could be quite interesting.
Must see if I can get in to that!
Frank O’Connor was a Cork born author who lived from 1903 to 1966. He really deserves a lot more recognition for his work and many compare him to Joyce and Yeats.
A recent short story award in his honour awarded 50,000 Euro to the winner!
I would hazard a guess that his most famous story is First Confession, and is a great read!
Woo! I’m rich, it’s the “Irish National Lotteries Promotion” after all!
Yeah right, pesky spammers spammed my pop3 host which is an Irish ISP. Must move that to my own server.
There are lots more variations on the theme. Anyone want to ring the Gardai with the phone numbers below?
IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERIES PROMOTION (INLP).
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E-MAIL ADD: (globalotteryza@winning.com).FROM: THE DESK OF THE PROMOTION MANAGER
A Division of Irish Lotteries Ltd, Subsidiary of the American Gaming Lottery Technology Group.Dear Winners,
NOTICE OF BEING OUR MONTHLY BONAZA AWARD WINNER
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Your personal Companies Names / E-mail Addresses were among the 1, 200 participants from your Country were selected through computer ballot draws and your e-mail address happens to emerge as one of the winner. Your winning Lottery Numbers:030825964 ranging from 030-82-11-09 drew the lucky numbers serially: 2-5-17-31-40-45 and bonus no: 9 therein consequently won in the 2nd, category.
Your above winning details attached to your winning lottery ticket number: 030825964 with serial number, ranging from: 030-82-11-09 and you won in the 2nd category. You have therefore been approved for lump sum pay out of EUROS: 1,150,000.00c (One Million one hundred and Fifty Thousand Euros only) to its equivalent in CHEQUE, which is the winning pay out for 2nd category winners from the total JACKPORT Prize of EUROS: 21,970,000.00c shared among the
winners in the 2nd category.NOTE: That your CHEQUE is now deposited as a BONDED CHEQUE with our paying bank, INSURED IN YOUR NAME after Government tax deduction attached with your ticket winning numbers. Therefore we advise you to contact our paying agent through its contact details below urgently for due processing and remittance of your CHEQUE into your account. Failure to
contact our paying office not later than Seven (7) working days effect from the date of notice, all unclaimed prize award will be “DEEM� as unclaimed which will be returned to
the TREASURY as unclaimed.MR SWART ENDBURG (Authorize Paying Officer).
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MR JOHN PORTELLI (Promotion Manager)
IRISH NATIONAL LOTTERIES EU.
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