Art, media, opinion and ideas
As some of you will have seen in today's Irish Times a laptop containing 171,324 blood donor records was stolen in New York. " donor records would include details such as name, address, date of birth, gender, blood group and contact phone number. The records on the laptop included any donor details that were updated between July 2nd and October 11th, 2007.
I will be on The Tubridy Show on RTE Radio 1 sometime shortly after 9am tomorrow morning, discussing YouTube and the legal questions arising therefrom. Update: Show now available.
What is it about suburbia that fills us with dread? Even if we live there, it somehow represents for us a kind of spiritual death. We reel out the clichés: identical, cookie-cutter homes; CD collection composed entirely of Norah Jones CDs purchased exclusively from Tesco; kids and a mortgage; middle age, middle class, middle of the road, boring, you might as well be dead.
UPDATE: You can now watch the survey results pour in. Feel free to do your own analysis on what we've found. Paul McGuinness may rest easy.
Digital Rights Ireland are represented by McGarr Solicitors (where I hang my scarf of a workday). They're currently in litigation with the Government about the introduction of Data Retention across Europe. Recently, the Irish Times reported that a government order to keep details of internet use by everyone in Ireland was imminent.
The other day a friend asked me to make her a compilation CD of mid-nineties Britpop. I set to work immediately, cueing up Parklife as track one – it was the manifesto for everything that was to follow, thus earning pole position. Another track by Blur was added, along with an obligatory pair each from Oasis and Pulp.
I've been trying to come up with something clever and original to write about today, taking the burden off Fergal. Sadly, I'm not up to the job. In the absence of these goodies, I'm going to lean on the kindness of others.
It seems as if the tragi-comic hunt for an Irish Football Manager will outlive us all. Anyone who's ever so much as attended a match has surely now rehearsed his opinion on the question of who should be hired, but I wasn't aware until recently that even tour operators and traders in dubious ethnic sterotypes Paddy Wagon had an opinion on it. A weird opinion.
Mary Wilson on Drive Time has just finished speaking to to US Ambassador Thomas Foley. Mr Foley feels that in the Democratic Primary Elections today, the states to watch are California, New York and New Jersey. So far, so uncontroversial.
It seems that Irish bloggers are not the only ones to have recently engaged in navel-gazing about this thing we call Blog (we just love to blog about blogging, don't we?). I don't often post links independent of a larger post, but when the New York Review of Books runs a piece on the subject of blogging, we here at Tuppenceworth sit up and take notice.
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