#“Oi Nokia. I’m still waiting for my free Ovi Maps” Or is it Oy Nokia? Or even Nokia Oy. You announced free Turn by Turn Voice Navigation in Ovi Maps on Jan 21st for your newest phones but hilariously not for your "flagship" device cos it didn't have enough space on C:. It's now March 30th and my N95-8GB still asks me for money if I want to use voice navigation. »
#“Demand Led Innovation Workshops” I'll be honest, I see the word "innovation" and I instantly picture Dilbert's PHB telling them to leverage synergy. It is a word that has effectively become meaningless. But when it is allied to action, then I'll take another look. I was contacted a while back by the guys in Innovator.ie about an Innovation Workshop but I mis-read the intent and thought it was just for those in the Civil Security Sector. »
#“Teic.ie \u00bb Xperia X10 to be available on O2 next month” The phone will be available to customers from 8th April and will be free for some, assuming they sign up to the right bill-pay package. via teic.ie Hurry up @vodafoneireland or you may lose me as a customer. How long before the HTC Desire or Nexus One arrives on VF? »
#“The Daily Mash - MASTERCHEF UPGRADED TO CLASS B DRUG” But just try not watching it, or worse still turning it off before the end. You'll see Gregg Wallace's big testicle-like head, goading you about your inability to deliver strong flavours. via thedailymash.co.uk One of their very finest. »
#“How useless is Google Buzz? This useless.” In the latest of my tough love posts about Buzz (tagline "We're moany bitches cos we care"), I take a screencast of what was displayed to me when I checked Buzz this morning: 6 weeks later and they still think this is acceptable. TURN OFF THE GODDAMMED EXTERNAL FEEDS IN BUZZ NOW. Thanks sweeties. In other Buzz news, I discovered last night that someone with a clue in Google turned on the ability for those with non-2. »
#“Save a packet on O2 Mobile broadband. Cancel and re-subscribe” I've had O2 mobile broadband for something like 2 years. I haven't used it much at all in the past few months and cancelled it a few weeks back. It was costing 30 p.m. for 10GB. However the ongoing problems with Eircom DSL every single night from 7pm to midnight has been driving me insane. Throughput drops to almost 0bps. The feedback I see on Twitter is that I'm not the only one and Cork seems to be particularly bad. »
#“Colm O’Gorman’s response to Ratzinger’s "it was all someone else’s fault"” For nowhere in the eight page letter is there an unambiguous acceptance of responsibility for the global systemic cover up of child sexual abuse by priests. Nor is there any acknowledgement of the years of aggressive refusal on the part of the Vatican to accept the simple fact of clerical crimes and institutional church cover up. via colmogorman.com Not much more needs to be said. »
#“Quick conoroneill.net Stattos” I've been blogging since 2001 and have long since lost any interest in stats on my blog posts. I never check non-biz related stats. But for interest's sake I've been monitoring conoroneill.net since it is a brand-new blog. I dunno if these stats are good, bad or indifferent for a new blog that is 99% promoted via Twitter and Facebook links. The one that jumps out at me is that whilst Twitter generates 18% of the visits, Facebook only generates 4%. »
Yahoo Launches Blah Blah Blah and Then Cancels It 18 Months Later Instead of updating your friends contact information when it changes, your friends just do it for themselves and then everyone with permission to get that information automatically has their address book updated. via techcrunch.com No-one in their right mind would spend time building up any data-set in Yahoo because you can be guaranteed with the next bungee VP re-shuffle, it'll get canned. »
#“Praise Allah, Chris Morris is back and he’s packing” He hasn't done even one vaguely funny thing since Brass Eye. What a comeback. This looks bloody fantastic. »