Balcony TV on RTE
RTE show on Youtube (3 months now)
RTE on youtube no dogs & embeddable
worth noting

• car repair €935 - time to scrap car and get a camper van - sell house pay back visa drive to southern Italy get Wimax - back in bizness #
• In 1999 =okia deal big deal with real networks nothing major came of it. Nokia became too common a phone. Yes as muck. #
• My uncle worked for Nokia in finglas in the 1970’s they made toilet rolls & jays fluid #
• the night before day1 of school year is big bath night. a summers worth of care free dirt is washed down da plug hole. next daddy long legs! #
• why cover school books? its a further insult to & from cheapo wallpaper #
• @damienmulley will IBA have a micro blogging award? #
• submitted an article for the next PUM. im shocked they never asked me before now! only joking #
• my old school reunion is sept 8th. PSN not greendale. class of ‘87 spiorad #
• car repair they wanted 969 I held it to 884 yesterdays quote. got 870 in the end. #
• when the workers cant buy back the produce we get recession #
• @topgold didn’t we see all this before in 1999 with the moto acompli etc. what happended since; steve jobs caught the telcos sleeping #
• @topgold wifi ipod 05/09/07 ?2.5 & 3G will be wilderness useful only #
• will phones become PDAs will MP3PLAYERs ends up everything is software radio with touch screen. 3rd party OS as fashion accessories #
• @eam0 FF ubuntu faster than XP agreed! #
• told 4yr old david cameron was maggie thatcher’s son, shes the bad woman in billy elliot film, bbc2 newsnight now #
• echo twitter: Finding out who from my Gmail contacts is already on twitter! https://twitter.com/invitations/gmail #

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btw.
The Net Visionary Awards (www.netvisionary.ie) are now open for nominations again this year. I won an award last year in the podcasting section. that is not a hint to nominate me! but I post this as a favour to the IIA to help promote the MOST HONEST AWARDS in the internet industry in ireland.

confused? you will be. text from Irish Emigrant, this is a Brian Greene test post.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern had a difficult week and all he could do was look on from the sidelines. He was again the focus of attention at the Mahon Tribunal, and to such an extent that his barrister, Colm Ó hOisín, felt obliged to accuse tribunal barrister Des O’Neill of “pushing a particular agenda” against his client. This allegation upset Tribunal chairman Judge Alan Mahon who told Mr Ó hOisín to “be careful about the words that you use because they are particularly offensive to us”. Judge Gerald Keys also intervened to say, “Offensive, and I reject them out of hand”. Earlier in the week, during cross-examination by Mr O’Neill, AIB official Jim McNamara confirmed that the Taoiseach had contacted him to ask about details of transactions given to the Tribunal. That allowed Fine Gael spokesman Fergus O’Dowd to describe the Taoiseach’s decision to contact a tribunal witness as “bizarre”. A spokesman for the Taoiseach responded by making the point that Mr Ahern could not be expected to remember details of lodgements and withdrawals which took place 12 to 13 years ago.

Two days later, after he had his chance to cross-examine Mr McNamara, it was clear that Mr Ó hOisín thought Mr O’Neill’s question was used simply to raise suspicions in the eyes of the public. He argued that it was perfectly reasonable for any client of a bank to discuss details of his account with an official of the bank. Mr O’Neill intervened to claim that the significance of Mr Ahern’s contact with Mr McNamara was to ask if the transactions involved foreign currency. It was at this point the heated exchanges between Mr Ó hOisín and the tribunal judges took place.

Much of the week was taken up with the cross-examination of AIB officials about different transactions. Mr O’Neill focused on how these transactions might or might not have included Sterling or dollar amounts and on how they allegedly didn’t equate with Mr Ahern’s explanation. It was all extremely complex and I suspect there aren’t more than a handful of people outside the tribunal who could explain clearly the issues involved. That, of course, doesn’t stop them having firm views on whether or not Bertie Ahern is telling the truth.

I am not one of that handful and the more I look at the figures the more confused I become. Even the journalists attending the Tribunal are confused or, if their reports are accurate, it is the barristers questioning the bank officials who are confused.

Despite my confusion I’ll mention two of the transactions although, according to one account it is the same transaction described on different days.

The AIB’s Philip Murphy was questioned about a lodgement of £24,838.49 which Mr Ahern recollected as comprising £16,500 and approximately Stg£8,000. It was argued by Henry Murphy SC for the Tribunal that there was no Sterling exchange rate that would support this. The witness was pressed by the barrister, “It doesn’t add up, isn’t that right Mr Murphy?” to which Mr Murphy replied “Yes”. I did some calculations based on the Central Bank exchange rate at the time and came close, but counsel for the Tribunal had been looking for a round Sterling amount and whether this meant excluding coins or a multiple of £100 is not clear.

On Friday it was again Mr O’Neill SC who was cross-examining an AIB official, this time Rosemary Murtagh. He claimed that from the bank’s records Celia Larkin could not have lodged Stg£30k on December 5, 1994. He noted that the total amount of foreign currencies purchased by the O’Connell Street Branch that day was £29,254.97 and argued this could equate to exactly €45,000. If the Irish Times reported the subsequent exchanges accurately, he then seemed to defeat his argument by accepting that some of the foreign currency was Sterling and that the balance was in other currencies, and he then managed to get Ms Murtagh to agree that this balance of $28,969.34 was “as a matter of probability if not certainty…. $45,000″. When Mr Ó hOisín cross-examined Ms Murtagh she also agreed that it was possible to carry out a mathematical exercise which would prove that £29,254.97 had to be Sterling and not dollars.

It is worth noting that no one has admitted giving the Taoiseach $45k, no one has accused anyone else of giving the Taoiseach $45k, Mr Ahern insists that he never had $45k and the bank has no record of receiving $45k from Mr Ahern or anyone else on the day in question.

Two morning sessions of the Mahon Tribunal had to be postponed due to the illness of key witness Tom Gilmartin. The questioning of AIB officials took longer than anticipated and that resulted in the postponement of the scheduled appearances of the Taoiseach, his former partner, Celia Larkin, and the Manchester-based business man Michael Wall, from whom Mr Ahern bought his Drumcondra home. The Tribunal is now adjourned for the summer and will resume in September.

emma from bebo [link 1] [link 2] said in a recent comment to a question “why don’t bebo feature my band”

A number of people from our service team in Austin go through the queue. For the most part they are instructed not to feature bands with copyrighted music or with tracks of really poor sound quality. However, they do have to go through many bands quickly, so sometime things can be overlooked or buttons mis-pressed.

copyrighted music - so copyrighted music is ok to be on BeBo but policy is that BeBo don’t feature it.

1. whats has it got to do with ‘copyright’ that would see you not featured?
2. why ‘feature’ on the pop front six

Hilary Duff Official UK

Gwen Stefani

Scissor Sisters Official

so policy is out the window.
3. why host music tracks at 160Kbits for free, and ask people to pay Apple 99c for a 128Kbits

turn the world upside down - shake it till the last few cent falls out of our pockets and into theirs

Test talkr in a blog post. I am Brian Greene and I am in dublin Ireland. I joined facebook today. last test, a line of dialogue from War Games. Mr. Potato Head, Backdoors are not secrets

378 views in 6 weeks off France24 youtube site. most of the videos have less than 200 views.

hear U2 sing ‘where the streets have no name’ & ‘Vertigo’ the video was shot at the cannes film festival, bono larry adam & the edge are professionally shot from a high vantage point and the video is professionally edited if still a bit edgy.

If I were U2 and France 24 I would be worried as to why ONLY 50 people a week or 7 a day are watching this video. The youtube tags on the France 24 youtube site will have a lot to do with it, but it still only has 5 external links that brought in 9 views, and 5 of the 9 would be the bloggers / SN’ers themself. like me!

Link to U2 music video

I hope stephen has a good contact number for youtube now. last time he didn’t (not his fault)

BTV says: 19/06/2007 YouTube launches in Ireland today! BalconyTV is delighted to welcome the internet broadcasting genius that is YouTube to Emerald Isle. Where would BalconyTV be after all, if it wasn’t for YouTube? We are also delighted to announce that we have become a YouTube ‘Partner’. You can notice now, when you take a dip into our archives, our new YouTube Branded Channel. Kudos to Sue at Sink.ie for the good work there.

bhg says: “you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds or rss-feed the hand that bytes.”

[update] 15:30 tuesday Views: 488 Comments: 71 Favourited: 4 times; Rated: 2/5 with 76 ratings
I think the 488 is whack, earlier it had 1 comment and 400+ views, now 71 comments??.

mmbhg was trigger fastest or was he?. a little birdie tells me that I wasn’t first with the news http://twitter.com/freenews was first. freenews is me linux cmd line news to twitter.

the GP do not need reminding……. its time.. it closer than we think .. 50 years after windscale 10/10/07

whats the story bebo

you send me three emails from friends. you say

Please confirm story about XXXX

Brian

xxxx has written a story about how you know one another. Please click below to confirm this story:

http://www.bebo.com/confirmstory/xxxx
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but when I go to that page there is no story. I’m asked to write a story! and If i want to see a story my friend wrote about me I’m to go to their page and go into the friends tab. I do this for the three emails bebo sent me and no f’ing story.

Somewhere bebo users have ticked a TICK BOX and bebo thinks this constitutes a story and is worthy of sending me an email to confirm the tick box. I know how I know my friends, they know how they know me, they ticked a box I get some daft email to confirm a non existing story, is this good? No.

Get a life bebo. Your ‘email all your friends an invite’ was way too aggressive a year ago. your growth rate needs further aggression and it annoys me. I also dislike the bebo bug that lets unkowns befriend me as they took a quiz of mine!

bebo you should open up. be more RSS friendly be the best open SNS on the block. open to broader design skins by users. Better self publishing tools, better advert self selection. Not more aggressive growth behaviour.

end of rant.