Earth Hour, run by WWF, is a a global climate change initiative and international event, which calls on individuals and businesses around the world to flick the switch by turning off their lights and electrical appliances for one hour. Earth Hour 2008 will take place this evening, the 29th of March, at 8p.m. local time to promote electricity conservation and “thus lower carbon emissions”. The aim of the campaign is to “express that individual action on a mass scale can help change our planet for the better”. Read the rest of this entry »
Good luck to those that have been nominated! If anyone fancy’s a sneak peak before the nominations have been disclosed, apparently there’s leaks popping up already.
Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… Read the rest of this entry »
I wouldn’t usually be a huge radio listener, except for when I’m in a car or without an i-Pod, television, computer, Internet connection… you get the idea. However, I have been increasingly listening to “An Taobh Tuathail” (irish for “The Other Side”), which broadcasts “underground music from around the globe” Read the rest of this entry »
In a stunt that calls to mind the Sony Bravia advertising campaign, “Colour Like No Other” on the hills of San Francisco, artist Graziano Cecchini along with a number of assistants, emptied half a million coloured balls down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps last Wednesday, January 16th, 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
I have decided to create a weekly post with my choice of a cool tune for a Friday.
Lets face it, Friday is the best day of the week, hands down. And as Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “without music, life would be a mistake.”
Enjoy!
This week’s cool tune is Fischerspooner’s “Emerge”. The video is also quite cool. “Sounds Good, Looks Good… Feels Good Too”. True. As is their logo (above) and their website.
Continuing on from my last post and in an attempt to start putting some of my New Year resolutions into action, I have salvaged, updated or setup accounts for all of the below. Check them out and connect with me to say hello if you’re on them too! If I don’t know you, am not linked to you in some way or don’t know of you, I may not add you (”cheek!” says you). However, I will appreciate the thought and effort that you went to in saying hi!
I’m planning to keep all of these for professional/ industry related purposes (within reason!). In other words, you won’t find embarrasing photos of me getting drunk or on holiday (you wouldn’t find them anywhere though!). I’m using LinkedIn and Facebook for career and industry networking, I’m using Twitter for less formal networking (and as an outlet to add my two cents worth, to sometimes vent and to ‘twitter’) and Im using Flickr to display my photography.
I think that that makes me sufficiently connected!
One of my new years resolutions is to write (and blog) more, to read more and to design more (designing in my own time that is and on more self-directed/ creative projects.) I can’t use the excuse of not having enough time due to work anymore… there’s a whole 128 hours left in a week after work afterall! Which reminds me, another resolution should be to sleep more! So that leaves about 80 hours!
2007 was good. The Christmas break was nice and I had some time to rest and relax, spend some time with friends and family, play with my new I-mac (more on that in a later post)… and even had some ‘me’ time.
I’m looking forward to the coming year… Happy New Year everyone! Niamh.
Monday 17th December 2007, San Francisco - the operators of Torrentspy.com, the popular bit torrent search engine, have lost a copyright case against the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) after it was ruled that they had tampered with evidence by ignoring a ruling to retain server logs and unique online computer addresses. In a ruling that could have implications for the privacy of Web site users, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, ruled that TorrentSpy has infringed MPAA copyrights. Read the rest of this entry »
Earth Hour, run by WWF, is a a global climate change initiative and international event, which calls on individuals and businesses around the world to flick the switch by turning off their lights and electrical appliances for one hour. Earth Hour 2008 will take place this evening, the 29th of March, at 8p.m. local time to promote electricity conservation and “thus lower carbon emissions”. The aim of the campaign is to “express that individual action on a mass scale can help change our planet for the better”. Read the rest of this entry »
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A weekly post with my choice of a cool tune for a Friday.
Increasingly there have been reports such as this about social networking websites, in particular Facebook. So by setting up an account with Facebook are you significantly decreasing your chances of getting that next job or inadvertently black-listing yourself from a college course? Not exactly… 
I wouldn’t usually be a huge radio listener, except for when I’m in a car or without an i-Pod, television, computer, Internet connection… you get the idea. However, I have been increasingly listening to “An Taobh Tuathail” (irish for “The Other Side”), which broadcasts “underground music from around the globe” 
In a stunt that calls to mind the Sony Bravia advertising campaign, “Colour Like No Other” on the hills of San Francisco, artist Graziano Cecchini along with a number of assistants, emptied half a million coloured balls down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps last Wednesday, January 16th, 2008. 
I have decided to create a weekly post with my choice of a cool tune for a Friday.
Continuing on from my last post and in an attempt to start putting some of my New Year resolutions into action, I have salvaged, updated or setup accounts for all of the below. Check them out and connect with me to say hello if you’re on them too! If I don’t know you, am not linked to you in some way or don’t know of you, I may not add you (”cheek!” says you). However, I will appreciate the thought and effort that you went to in saying hi!
Monday 17th December 2007, San Francisco - the operators of