Kraftwerk
MGMT
Klaxons Fleet Foxes >>> lastFM Massive Attack >>> massiveattack.com Seasick Steve >>> lastFM Bat For Lashes >>> lastFM
Michael Nyman >>> lastFM
The Beat
Squarepusher >>> lastFM Future Sound Of London >>> lastFM Little Boots >>> lastFM
Friendly Fires >>> lastFM
Florence And The Machine
Bjorn Again
Fujiya & Miyagi >>> lastFM Metronomy >>> lastFM
Dub Pistols >>> lastFM
James Yuill >>> lastFM
Free Peace >>> lastFM
VV Brown
Chase & Status
Golden Silvers >>> lastFM
Goldie Lookin Chain
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
The Cuban Brothers
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Ebony Bones
Altern8 Passion Pit >>> lastFM
65 Days of Static
Diplo Presents Mad Decent Soundsystem
Fabio & Grooverider
London Elektricity
Rob Da Bank
Zane Lowe
Annie Mac Presents
Huw Stephens
Derrick Carter DJ Yoda
Fake Blood Gilles Peterson
Friction
Tayo
Johnno (Bugged Out)
Skream
DJ Derek
Monsters At Work DJ’s Present The Psychedelic Sounds of Monsterism Island Beardyman
Coley (Luv Jam)
In his own words
“Me and a mate have put together a Downfall + Empire Strikes Back combination scene for your viewing. The script is Corkoniense’s, so sue me frank you sonofabitch. The tech wizardry is all my mate’s doing, as I don’t have a clue of these things, so kudos to him.
Remember: All characters in this movie are actors, with the exception of Dr. Joseph Goebbels, who stars as himself.
Enjoy!!!!”
I can only doff my cap to you corkoniense….quality.
What at first looked like a progressive step by Airtricity in engaging with the online community on this issue seems to have been no more than a cursory attempt to quell any chitchat among the blogging community in relation to the data breach. Funny that the engagement only came after the SBP ran the story.
Anyway, it looks Peter Lord or at least his IP has become a regular AGH reader so here are a few new facts you can add to your list. AGH is now on page one, position ten in the organic Google search results for the key word ‘Airtricity’ and the the Airtricity Letter has been downloaded 286 times from AGH.
When it’s a bit of “friendly” advice! I may have been a little hasty when referring to the rocket I got on Friday as a legal threat. Looking at it again (and again) and having got “legal” advice (I passed it by one of my “legal” mates) it was more advisory in tone. It was the officialdom that probably got my back up so I went off on one when in actuality the email was simply “advising” me not to liable anyone. I’m happy enough to park her there but ill wait for the official response.
A supporters march will take place in Cork city in support of the 2008 Cork hurling squad on Saturday February 7th.
Rebels are being asked to assemble at Emmet Place, outside Cork Opera House before 3pm after which a march will take place in the city centre.
The march is being organised by well known Cork supporter Tom ‘Bomber’ Roche, who organised last year’s successful marches, and PeoplesRepublicOfCork.com
Fans are asked to bring as much colour as possible and to spread the word to as many Corkonians as possible.
Just hours after the hurlers’ press conference and statement, a 96FM poll has showed overwhelming support for the hurlers with 2,909 texts in favour of the players and 309 against.
Supporters March: Desktop Wallpaper 640×480 (downloaded 114 times since 1th Feb 2009) 800×600 (downloaded 116 times since 1th Feb 2009) 1280×960 (downloaded 112 times since 1th Feb 2009)
Original Corcaigh Abú: Desktop Wallpaper 640×480 (downloaded 495 times since 15th Jun 2007) 800×600 (downloaded 519 times since 15th Jun 2007) 1280×960 (downloaded 478 times since 15th Jun 2007)
“It is hard to sum up this blog in just a few words or even explain its exact purpose but I will tell you this much: it is sometimes written as Gaeilge, it often champions Irish culture and it is frequently hilarious.
I really liked the blog’s strange mix of hip and hip replacement, like a culchie with culture (this is how I like to think of myself!).
I could see myself glued to this blog if I were off in Australia or America finding my fortune. Actually, I’d visit it either way. ”
Well it’s like that old saying goes…”Give a culchie the culture section, and you’ve occupied him for a day. Teach a culchie how to blog, and you’ve occupied him for life.”
Marie a chailin once ive figured out AGH’s purpose you’ll be the first to know.
So much for free speech!! It looks like we’ve touched a nerve with someone in relation to our post this morning. I received an email this morning (which i only picked up now) from a major corporate law firm, here in Dublin. Lets be clear on this I haven’t done anything wrong, I have simply published a letter which was received by a family member. I refuse to be bullied or censored on this and I will not under any circumstances remove my blog post.
I’ve been blogging since 2005 and AGH has been up and running since 2006. We’ve sailed close to the wind on a number of occasions but this goes beyond all that… ive done nothing wrong and i stand by my post. I actually held back on information truth be known…
I’m amazed that this hasn’t been picked up in the media yet, but this came through the door of a relation last week and to say she was shocked and worried is an understatement. I mean it looks like her personal data, including bank details may have been left in an unsecured location for God knows how long!!
The letter states that while they were working on their website a “file” containing personal details was inadvertently left in an unsecure location. They go on to say that while the file was not visible on the face of the website they cant guarantee 100% that the file wasn’t accessed by an unauthorised 3rd party.
While the letter itself is very apologetic and and goes to great pains to try and reassure the recipient that this breach has been investigated thoroughly and that measures are now in place to ensure the situation can not be repeated, it doesn’t state when this breach happened and how long the data was exposed to the world.
The fraud protection cover they offer by way of apology is akin to padlocking the stable door after the horse has bolted.
I’m going to look into this for her and my first port of call will be the data protection commissioner. Come to think of it im not sure what good contacting the DPC will do, given the fact that they had their own leak recently any action they take against Airtricity might smack of hypocrisy!
I can only imagine the phone conversation:
> Hello - Yes
> Is that Kettel? - Yes this is Kettel
> This is pot - Ok
> You’re Black
An Céad Dáil Éireann - the First Dáil Éireann, 90 years ago tomorrow the 21st of January
Lot’s going on and lots of talk debate around the 90th anniversary of the First Dáil. RTE radio have a series of programmes commemorating the anniversary with one in particular How Macroom Remembers aired yesterday being of particular interest to myself.
The 21st January marks the 90th anniversary of the first Dáil in Ireland. RTÉ Radio 1’s Documentary on One has made a documentary that looks at how the tumultuous events of 1919 to 1923 are remembered in Macroom and its hinterland.
You can download the the programme directly here. It was recorded around the time of the Kilmichael commemoration last year and has a few excerpts from the day itself. Of course you can download the full speech and see more pics from Kilmichael 2008 here.
To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the First Dáil we are re-broadcasting a ten part Thomas Davis Lecture series entitled Creating the Dáil first broadcast in 1994.
The boys over at éirígí staged a high profile PR stunt much to the embarrassment of the blue heelers.
éirígí activists today (Tuesday) breached tight security at Dublin’s historic Mansion House to deliver a message directly to the Twenty-Six County political establishment.
As hundreds of elected representatives and other dignitaries gathered inside the building, two activists succeeded in unfurling a giant banner from the roof.
As the out-manoeuvred Gardaí scrambled into action, the banner’s message hung from the roof of the Mansion House for all to see – “90 YEARS ON – NO CLOSER TO FREEDOM – END THE OCCUPATION!”
Its a fresh profile so forgive the lack of stats pre 2 days ago!! The figures are paltry enough even by AGH standards, nothing like the heady days of 06/07. Ill see if i can get some of my historical stats up on the AGH stats page.
In this era of blogging stats Glasnost exemplified by Mulley and Niall Harbison i too will be making my full blog stats available. Will more than likely jimmy FireStats to make my stats viewable to the public but am also considering going down the NiallH.com route of giving full access to my Google Analytics account.
Details on how to access full stats for AGH will be posted in the AGH Stats page which for now contains only standard blog page, post and comment stats.
After the complete washout in 2006 and having missed out on the 2007 commemoration i was looking forward to the 2008 Kilmichael ambush commemoration and to be fair Declan Kearney, the guest speaker, didn’t disappoint
…and it has to be said that reactions have been mixed. Some love the idea while others poo poo. Most of the poo poo’ing was on the Electric Picnic forum itself which might have more to do with the profile of user than anything else, I was even accused of working for twitter on said forum!
Anyway, we’ll plough on regardless.
Just to clarify a few things for people around the SMS aspect of all this.
When your Twitter account has been setup and you’re following electricpancake (and after electricpancake in return follows you) you can then decide which way you want to be updated on electricpancake twitters.
You can keep things entirely web based and just follow updates via your own Twitter profile or just by going to http://twitter.com/electricpancake in your browser.
You can setup twitter to send updates to your instant messenger client.
Or you you can set up mobile SMS updates. << Handy for us in field in Stradbally!!
Once you have your mobile setup (add device in settings) and you select to receive updates from electricpancake you’re on your way. “Twitter doesn’t charge anything for this, but be sure to know what your text plan looks like with your wireless carrier.”
You need never send an update to electricpancake and just opt to receive all the update goodness as it happens. You can even shut text messages from Twitter off at anytime by replying with “off” (and back on by sending “on”). You can also specify that it turn off automatically at night.
So there you are all set-up for receiving but what good is receiving without a little giving!! You can text in your updates to electricpancake by typing ‘D electricpancake’ and then your message to Twitter (+44 7624 801423). You would have already texted this Twitter number to verify your phone when setting it up as a update device.
If anyone has any question drop em in the comments and ill do my best to answer.
3. Once electricpancake is following you, any Direct Message (e.g. D electricpancake I like Cake) you send to electricpancake will instantly be republished as a tweet on electricpancake itself.
4. Anyone following electricpancake will then each receive that tweet.
*In the process of setting up auto-follow which will mean anyone who follows electricpancake will instantly be followed in return. In the mean time it will have to be a daily run job so please be patient. I should have the auto-follow up and running by the end of the week.
Of the people, for the people and by the people.
electricpancake will not work as an Electric Picnic update service unless people send tweets to it. It all depends on getting a core of followers who are willing to contribute.
Likely tweets that i know i would be glad to receive:
- Traffic in Portlaoise is building up but moving
- Car park C is full
- Loads of space in red campsite down near the portaloos
- *artist* just coming on the main stage now
- Not letting any more people in to the **** Tent
- Bodytonic tent now! Place is rocking..
- Body & Soul looks like its closing shortly
- Party in car park C.. look for noisy blue van
…you get the idea.
Again this will only work if electricpancake gets enough followers wiling to contribute, so i guess we’ll just see how the it goes for now. Tweet or comment below…
After many false dawns and promises of redesigns etc I’ve decided that things were actually pretty good as they were. Actually its been doing my nut in trying to get and modify a WP theme to a point that im happy for it to be the new face of AGH. So I’ve decided to carry on using the existing light theme for now. I had to rip out all plugins and update my WP and DB but things seem to be hanging together a bit better now. As you may have noticed some of the nifty features are no more but it was a them or better performance and load time. I’ll look at getting some of them back up and running over the next few weeks.
Thanks for sticking out the rough times people but with things a bit more settled now AGH should be back with more Where in the World Wednesdays, more Friday Caption Competitions, more Reign of Terror letters, more Dingle for your Dangle, more Sport, more gigs, more giving out..especially more giving out….
Ive also tentatively dipped my toe into the world of Twitter.
Will the AGH twitter take over from the AGH blog?
Who knows!!
Ach go háirithe has gone old school….as you may have noticed. I’m cleaning house and putting a new look and feel together so forgive the temporary old school look.
I need to clean up my plugins and make sure the new theme and WP version works before releasing it to you the public. So sorry again about the false dawns of the past few months but rest assured that re-design is well under way and once i’ve deployed i will be back posting like its 2006!
