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2013-05-03 23:24:56 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Its only a click away. :)

2013-05-03 11:09:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

What can i say?
Seeing Dexys play last night was precious...
Passion & warmth offstage & on.
Definitely worth seeing their 'One Day I'm Going to Soar' theatre show
Dexys - Free "Later with Jools Holland"

2013-04-29 20:25:21 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

3 Days to Dexys!!!

Essential prep
- Listening only to Dexys, with the odd bit of Northern Soul for good measure
- Beer money from the ATM sorted
- Shoes polished

Bugger, forgot the tickets ;;;;)

2013-04-28 20:37:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

All too easy to get stuck in the mud, using your default search option. Been trying out different ones for a while now and https://duckduckgo.com has won out for me.

The FF Addon is clean & simple to use too
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/

They just work. Simples.

[Edit: And no tracking neither... and anonymous saving to the cloud of settings. Nice touches]

2013-04-28 20:22:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

4 Days until Dexys live in Dublin... can't wait!

Dexys - Nowhere Is Home

2013-04-27 22:41:14 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Love love lovin Owncloud.org

I wasn't too happy saving files on Drive so switched to Owncloud... only to find it also has a calendar, contacts and half decent Tasks app too.

http://owncloud.org/features/

2013-04-27 21:35:35 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Now yer cookin' - Miles Davis' South Side Chicago Mack Chili recipe http://www.voicesofeastanglia.com/2012/05/miles-davis-chili-recipe-cool-and-hot.html … Beer optional.
#jazzbaby  

2013-04-27 14:43:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I've been researching a lot about #privacy and #intellectualproperty lately....

See, it gauls me to see my music & digital versions of my novels being pirated....

[read on...] http://squidinky.com/digital-sharing-is-killing-creatives

2013-04-27 14:00:52 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Cracked Glass

Enterprise Products DEMAND Enterprise Security.

Think about it, running enterprise systems/hardware/software on open source software (android, linux, etc) is all well and good.

... tweek it by all means.
... shore up the flaws (its opensource so hackers can easily weed these flaws out)

Heck, a huge percentage of the world's web servers have Apache servers somewhere in the mix.

But for cryin out loud, lock down the security as a priority if you expect people to pay big bucks.

#glassexplorers #googleglass

2013-04-27 12:36:31 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers http://virg.in/gcJMy

2013-04-25 22:01:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

1800 to 2000

- Evil on the decline
- Hate holding steady
- While Love is diminishing, play is on the increase

#fact
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=love%2Chate%2Cplay%2C+evil&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=

2013-04-25 19:58:20 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Guess the book?
This is its actual cover
Gotta love the smarts at #penguinbooks  

2013-04-24 19:52:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Whats the point in fines for illegal data collection when the sums involved are so paltry in comparison to the profits made?

Quote: “As long as violations of data protection law are penalized with such insignificant sums, the ability of existing laws to protect personal privacy in the digital world, with its high potential for abuse, is barely possible,”

NYTimes: http://nyti.ms/17RHNsg

2013-04-24 19:27:50 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#justsaying  

2013-04-24 17:13:50 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

In the future...

...when a person's life flashes before their eyes
then this will be pretty much what they can expect ;)

Though with varying levels of space ape-oids.
 
http://squidinky.com/life-flashed-before-my-eyes

2013-04-22 19:59:29 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 8 +1s)

Is this the coolest old-fashioned photography in Dublin?

An insight into the Analogue Studio, featuring Alex Sapienza, a photographer specializing in 19th Century wet plate photography techniques.

via amigo john martin on Twitter

2013-04-21 22:04:22 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

12 Days of Dexys
12 day until Dexys live at the Olmpia May 2 - Can't wait
Dexys - Incapable Of Love

2013-04-21 20:49:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

3of3: Tim Buckley playing Dolphins
Played before, but heck, its good for the ears

2013-04-21 20:49:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2of3: Nick Drake playing Pink Moon
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

2013-04-21 20:50:14 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

1of3: Book excerpt: Way to Blue
Retelling the life & influence of Musician Nick

2013-04-21 19:33:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

There can be no friendship where there is cruelty, where there is disloyalty, where there is injustice.

And in places where the wicked gather there is conspiracy only, not companionship:

these have no affection for one another;
fear alone holds them together;

they are not friends,
they are merely accomplices.

The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude – Étienne de La Boétie

To learn more of Étienne, a little known writer of the 1550's, I wrote the following piece about him in bygone days.
http://squidinky.com/voluntary-servitude-etienne-de-la-boetie

2013-04-21 15:16:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Very odd.. some linkys no worky :c\
[e.g.tried the Gmail Support contact options link ]
What would Captain Subtext say?

2013-04-21 14:17:59 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Best Flashmob Ever: Flashmob Performs 'Here Comes the Sun' in Madrid Unemployment Office …  #Spain #Unemployment #FlashMob   

2013-04-20 13:56:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Interesting relaxed interview with Mr Schmidt

One snippet jumped out when I read it...
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"There's a lot of discussion in the world about the two billion that are connected," he says. "We spend all day talking about the issues of e-commerce and start-ups and globalisation and so forth, and we forget that the majority of people are not online and that they will come online, the majority of them in the next five years.

"It's going to happen very fast. It's going to happen in countries which don't have the same principles that we in America have from the British legal system – around law and privacy and those sorts of things. All sorts of crazy stuff is going to happen. Human societies can't change that fast without both good and negative implications."
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That last line was just a bit disconcerting. The ideath... more »

2013-04-20 12:40:02 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

!!!

2013-04-19 22:32:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

EU Competition Authority versus Google - Results!
Interesting snips/outcomes

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21576386-settlement-between-search-firm-and-european-union-takes-shape-try-it-and-see

2013-04-17 21:18:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Redux 2013
yep I posted it before, but hey! ;)

2013-04-16 21:38:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

HBR Talks up Lean

This is a really good primer on Lean Startups, from HBR.

But heads up, its the cover story (May 2013 ed.) so only online for a month.

Lengthy, but worth a read. Also, gives a nod of the hat to one of my top 5 favourite books - Business Model Generation.
http://hbr.org/2013/05/why-the-lean-start-up-changes-everything/

2013-04-16 21:12:53 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Definition of Regret?
Getting to a ripe old age and only now just hearing this Sly & the Family Stone tooooon... only today :c(
#awholelottafunk

Still.... better late than never :)
Sly and The Family Stone- If you want me to stay

2013-04-14 20:00:42 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

LOL Eric Schmidt doesn't think anyone should be able to take pictures of people's houses from the sky... Oh, wait...

2013-04-14 19:13:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

My Desert Island Book - Nihil Timendum Est
ROBERT GREENE & 50 CENT - The 50th Law

Bought this book in an airport years back as something to read while on the road. Turned out being a real game changer for me. Robert Greene was already impressive (48 Laws of Power, 33 Strategies of War, Art of Seduction) but teaming up with +50 Cent was an epiphany.

And if you've came this far, then maybe you'll go a bit further and pick up a copy of the book.... Will teach you to Fear Nothing

Blogs: powerseductionandwar.com & thisis50.com
Slides by Harper Studio promos

2013-04-12 23:49:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

My Open Letter to Inventor of Iran's New Time Machine

Dear Dr. Ali,
I represent a group of investors from the present who are excited to invest in your future machine. Though we realize that you already know what we are willing to pay. If acquisition  is not possible, we'd like to partner 50-50 on all profits, which we will bankroll.

So we know your technology works, please tell us who will win tonight's baseball games and this season's +So You Think You Can Dance.  

We are also interested  in going back in time, as well as forward. One of our investors, a brilliant dwarf scientist, is eager to help. He will live inside your machine until it can travel back in time so he can post dinosaur photos on Instagram.

Here are some of your other inventions we'd like to discuss: the hoverbaby, edible self-healing limbs, and the P-Diddyexo-s... more »

2013-04-12 23:19:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

If you ain't all Irish'ed out after Paddys Day then treat yourself to this folksy Irish ditty from a mate of a mate.

2013-04-11 20:15:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looking into that deep dark sock of death. Pondering the life that flashes before your eyes...

2013-04-11 19:32:59 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Inaccurate nomenclature, stop the madness!

Desktop. What a poor descriptor. Technically a desktop computer would be one that you'd place on the top of your desk, but not all form factors consume such tiny amounts of space. To throw another wrench in an otherwise lack luster description most identify a desktop as where their shortcuts reside, which has absolutely nothing to do with hardware. Maybe I should have said PC? That too is an over generalized and somewhat inaccurate description. PC actually stands for personal computer and isn't constrained to any one single form factor. A PC can be a notebook, a tablet, a smartphone, or even a pair of smart glasses. Additionally PC is a deplorable descriptor to differentiate operating platforms such as Windows or Mac because inherently both are personal computing devices. It's funny because we also used to refer to these things as IBM... more »

2013-04-10 22:03:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

+Ryuichi Sakamoto & Kaori Muraji Merry Christmas,Mr Lawrence
Bliss for your ears.
http://bit.ly/16NDdtJ

2013-04-09 18:53:41 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Just out of curiosity, installed a bunch of Firefox add-ons to flag/block scripts on web pages that are making excessive calls... its a real eye-opener just how much info is getting pinged (and to whom).

2013-04-07 21:49:28 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Jaron Lanier's been thinking along these lines for a while. An earlier book of his – You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto – argued that the internet was eroding human interaction, stifling creativity and changing us as people. Lanier was particularly scathing about remix culture, which he viewed as not only ethically dubious but also self-defeating in the long run. If we have a world in which original artists cannot earn a living from their work, ultimately we will run out of stuff to remix.

via the always informative +The Guardian 

2013-04-07 16:17:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Sloblock to it all ! Fry and Lauire Sloblock

2013-04-07 15:51:46 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Heard this in the car earlier - seem to have got stuck on the 80's channel - and was blown away. Just a nice simple solid song & production.

2013-04-07 15:49:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

NSFW Animation.
This is very odd - but still a giggle
It may well be how Social _Not_working of the future plays out I spose
;)

2013-04-06 23:09:15 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Google Glass & Privacy - That Ole Chestnut!
The genie isn't out of the bottle yet... but the state laws around wiretapping could suffocate this genie in utero.

2013-04-06 22:37:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Bring Back the Mom & Pop Shop

On my trips to the UK & US I find myself reminiscing of my earliest trips abroad. Especially discovering little Mom & Pop shops - cafes, family run petrol/gas stations, hardware stores, bookshops, diners, B&B's, etc.

Just seems the more I travel the more beige everything becomes.

NY is London is Dublin is LA.

The bland chain hotel, the evergreen chain coffee shop, the lurid chain gas station.

Thing is, when a big chain stumbles then thousands of employees experience the ripples of austerity.

Whereas, an archipelago of Mom & Pop are resilient.

Moreover, our archipelago of Mom & Pops help distribute the profits across a community.... f**k it, these people ARE our community.

You buy into the chain then you line the shareholders pockets.

Shop... more »

2013-04-06 12:37:27 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

Crossing the Rubicon...
3 quotes happened across my transom all about BOUNDARIES _ in the space of 60 mins._

#kismet #boundaries #crossingtheline  

2013-04-05 22:38:29 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

I switched from google reader to http://www.feedly.com/ and was it ever a good move. The layout is perfectly light and clear, the handling of the posts very effective and browsing the content is done in a cinch. 
+feedly well done.

2013-04-05 22:09:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Plain lazy... a certain service provider has had this crappo message for eons which is seen when deleting a 'list' on their online SAS.

I guess when its free nobody cares... even the developers :(

#dontexpectpatronstocarewhenyoudontcareyourself  
#aintnothinbutaGthang

2013-04-05 20:09:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

19 Years...
Since Kurt Cobain died..
And the very night Squid Inky did their last live yolk with Jason Hynes.
Strangely no video footage of that night of a thousand beers , but this is probably what it sounded like ;)
Bob Mould and Dave Grohl - "Ice Cold Ice" live from the Walt Disney Concert Hall

2013-04-05 19:19:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

As predicted in +Econovation, US manufacturing is coming back, but without the jobs.  That can be said of almost any industry. We're entering a "post-human economy".  

Will be writing more about that in future posts and the next book ...stay tuned.

2013-04-04 19:55:06 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

4 Rough Remixes of the one tune for gits and shiggles ;)
#reggae #dubish #drumandbass #ballad  
Carrie Heskins on vocal duties.
Little ole me on production
https://soundcloud.com/rod-dunne/sets/take-me-for-who-i-am-dunne
Written by Carrie Heskins, Carolyn J Webb, John Gallagher, Rod Dunne

2013-04-04 19:25:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Observe - Repeat - Learn :)
http://boltron.com/sit/