Ciaran O’Riordan asks Irish business to go to Brussels and talk to their MEPs about software patents. We really only have next week to catch them in their offices, so who’s going?
Contact your local TD if you can!
Here’s that Guardian article RMS wrote with a very simple and clear example to show why patents are not the same as copyright, why they are absurd!
Later.. Brian has more.
Tag Archives: When-in-Ireland
Bonfire Night
It’s bonfire night here in Cork. Is this celebrated anywhere else in Ireland? I was at home in the suburbs earlier and I could see black smoke rising from all around. Needless to say, this night is one of the busiest for the fire service!
Red Bull Air Race – Rock of Cashel, July 24th
The Red Bull Air Race comes to Ireland on July 24th this year! The only way of getting tickets is by a draw, so I hope I get a few!
If you missed the race, check out my photos for a flavour of the event!
Get your tickets here! Just enter the draw on this page and you’ll be in with a chance to win some tickets!
I don’t have any tickets For You! Stop asking for them!
Update! Wooo! I won tickets for myself and my friends! The only way to get them is by entering the competition on the Red Bull site which I did several weeks ago!
What's on in Cork?
Next Saturday, June 4th, over 250 crews will row from the mouth of Cork Harbour to Cork City centre. Ocean to City and Cork 2005 have more details, but if the weather’s nice I’ll be there!
European Street Theatre will come to Cork with the arrival of Compagnie Jo Bithume’s ‘Victor Frankenstein’. Now to figure out how to get a few tickets!
Cork WideScreen Gala Night in the City Hall presents six short documentaries that have been produced in Cork. Start time is 7.30pm, so I doubt I’ll be there – we’ll be in a pub elsewhere!
Heineken have sponsored a busy weekend’s worth of music and entertainment! Full listing above!
Even more gigs are of course listed at Cork Gigs.com, including Mundy on Friday night in the Cruiscin Lan, and Fred (just noticed the tedtheband site too! heh.) later on in the summer!
The Cork 2005 site is awful – the javascript calendar doesn’t work in Firefox, and more than one tab open with it drags my machine down! *gah*
Cork City Historical Photographs
Cork Camera Club (pre-1940) contains a wealth of photographs and information about the real capital of Ireland.
Cork City Council has another site with the same content, but with thumbnails. Here’s the origin of the name, Sraid an Chapaill Bhuí, and according to the first link above, an extraordinary photo since it must have been taken only 28 years after the production of the first paper negative!
It’s amazing to see the old St. Fin barres Cathedral and Marina Quay where Ford and Son had their large factory.
If you want to get in touch with other photography types, check out Cork Camera Group or Carrigaline Photographic Society (why do you have so many images when text would do?)
Irish Blogs Directory, the new boggersphere!
Paul O’Keefe wrote to me to tell me about the Irish Blogs and Bloggers Directory, or should I say boggersphere?
I added mine there for the heck of it, nice to see it being populated already!
Bobble Head Ray – How Mad Is That?
The Ray D’Arcy show have 10,000 Bobble Head Rays to give away. Iif you have a mad story that ends with “How Mad Is That?” give them a call, text or email!
If you have a Bobble Head, go visit Bobble Head Ray and upload photos of you and your Booble Head. Photos will be published later!
Let's get take out
takeAwayFood.ie has been advertising on todayfm recently. Despite the basic design of the site (and the fonts don’t look right in Firefox!) it’s very useful. It even has all the take aways in Blarney and menus for a few of them!
deadmalls DOT com
Maybe Mahon Point should be listed on deadmalls DOT com? Apparently nobody’s spending money down there, although B&Q is mighty interesting for those housey things! We wandered through there a few weeks ago and besides a quick shop in Tesco we got out quickly! Ryan had an even better day there! hehe.
gooogle.ie
Here’s what it looks like. I think it needs a bit more work!
