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”. (more…)

I got a mention on the “New Blogs on the Block” section of the Irish Blog Awards… Cool!

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.

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. (more…)

• European Year of Intercultural Dialogue;
• Australian Year of the Scout;
• International Year of the Potato;
• Year of the Beijing Olympic Games…

and more!

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. (more…)