I like to be inspired. Humanity is so wonderful. The title of this song is Forever Young. Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story called Breakfast of Champions. He loves America but he laughs at it’s Arrogance. The book expresses RVR because, he, the author, goes into the book and meets the characters. [Virtiual Reality's original medium was the book] He is God. The hero Kilgore Trout doesn’t believe him so with a few strokes of his pen The Author wisks the hero around the world. The hero gasps and falls to his knees. The Author says “Do you want something?” The Hero says “Make me young” The last page is a hand drawn picture of Kurt Vonnegut, a single tear rolls down his cheek. I think we have a Universal Truth here. Humanity’s deep rooted desire to leave a legacy, to have a raison d’etre. So much of the universe we inhabit appears chaotic. I tie it in with “The Day The Earth Stood Still” where Human Beings are to be wiped off the Earth because their Arrogance is destroying it. But they are saved because they are special. I am reminded of the Aliens in “Artificial Intelligence” [AI] The Aliens tell the robot child that Human Beings are Unique in the universe. They also say Nothing Ever Dies. Your Engram remains as part of the web of the universe for all time. But the aliens become The Blue Fairy to grant the robotic child, an avatar, Humanity’s greatest accomplishment and to give Humanity’s Greatest Gift: Unconditional Love. But warn him that once brought back the engram of his mother will disappear from the space-time continuum. The Love is that of A Mother for her Child, Like that of The Creator For His Creation. The Sacrifice Is Ultimate. Jesus did it. And At The End of Days , We Sleep
Wow. I think I can die now. I just peaked. Fancy a pint?
“The Board looked closely at your application, but felt that it was within a sector that is excluded from consideration”
Just Telling It Like It Is I needed 3,391 euros to operate in the first year.I would employ two people from the live register immediately…. In The Second year I forcasted 100k profit ? I think. Sorry a bit upset. And its part of:
“The Board looked closely at your application, but felt that it was within a sector that is excluded from consideration”
i. e. The Internet …Ready?
The Plan: Weddings, Photography, The Internet. What if, on the day of a couples wedding, I could put up their pictures on the internet? Who would take them? Well, anyone with a camera phone, they just SMS them to me, I upload them to my computer and then upload them to the internet. Yeah! So what to call it? Has to be easy to remember…..how about “Weddings On The Internet” So I invested 10 euros and got http://WeddingsOnTheInternet.com
The secondary ones may have expired by now, I got a 30 day free trial and The County Enterprise Board turned me down. I need 36 euros and don’t have it because Irish People Hate Disabled People (see previous post)
Sorry I may be boring you but the saga is reported on my blog a copy is here :
Weddings On The Internet
I started a new venture on Wednesday., putting Wedding Albums on the web. Our local hotel is having a formal wedding fair so I thought I would have a stand. Hmmm. I registered weddingsontheinternet.com on Thursday morning , it seemed like a good name. I designed a web page.
Page !
I thought I better make it official so I registered “Weddings On The Internet ” as a business name with CORE (Dublin Castle) . I suppose I should explain who we are….[I forgot...saw a ladies telephone number in the printer on Tuesday and jotted it down, she does flowers. Gave her a bell, explained what I was at said she would meet me Thursday......]
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And what about images……so I hunted on line in my favourite professional picture site…
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Tought I would take a break and try out some new image software. I took a picture I liked and “doctored” it with a wedding couple. Hmmm it looked good…..
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I popped out and checked that my printing company could give me some time tomorrow. I said I would need about 30 minutes uninterrupted. I phoned the printing head office, explained what I was doing. Lady said the boss would phone me back. Had some lunch and lthought about a new shop I want to open selling second hand computers. Had a chat with the owners friend (I do their web site). Hmmmm….
Back home…now the next page……
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ok. Its a bit dry and why do it? What’s the reason for all this…….
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Yep! Good Reason! Ok so how much is all this going to cost? Hmmmm…
People spend a minimum of 4k, more often 6k. on their weddings (for ONE day!) So, I am giving them The Internet and their grandchildren and everybody in the world who has an Internet connection.. Now how much is The Internet worth? Philip smiles….
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add THE WOW FACTOR…..
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~Done …So last page “So long and thanks for all the fish” lol
[Sorry got the Time Line messed up a bit ~ downloading Windows 7 in the background...Anyway met Bridget and she will provide two bouquets, two floor standing trees, two button holes....]
So. 25 perspex folders, 1 hole punch, 25 cardboard folders (give-a-way cause people collect loads of brochures and drop them and lose them….so,30 x 9 print outs of the above pages, 9 A3 glossy photos like this:
Spent €121 on printing. [BTW downloaded Office 2007 Pro , it's gorgeous but WOW OUTLOOK WOW I'll do a movie....]
[sooo busy...Windows 7 stuff great operating system. made a quick video......
See The Tullamore Tribune got press coverage......for Weddings and registered InternetWeddings.eu .eu will be the next big thing...sorry haven't edited it yet.
Oh well off to Dublin gfor Windows 7 bash ! Great Stuff!!!!
btw got a new widget...don't even know if it works....
Soorrryyy so busy......BUT LOOK AT THIS PLEASE!
" Camera phones offer snapshot of our time, by Victor Keegan
If the dighital revolution had produced nothing except the camera phone, it would still have had a transformative effect on most people's lives. It is not only in the throes of destroying whole industries - such as film processing and standard canmeras - but it has also changed these devices from being aa passive recorder of life into an active, constant participant. You can take photos or videos and send them directly to web sites..." (We provide the web site, we provide the gallery, we provide the platfor...we get the image, it is up on the Internet 30 minutes nlater ...LIVE!)."..more than 60% of the world's population already has a mobile and MORE THAN HALF HAVE A CAMERA PHONE1...This year 90% of all phones shipped will have cameras....now...a camera phone has become an extension of a person."
The Guardian 15th October 2009
Well ...Think I got my first booking...Sat Night in DeBrúns generated some leads. Oh Friday...Repaired my computer a blank system...oohh Thursday...sorry guys...Windows 7 tech do....wait for the Windows 7 blog on Thursday....Ok heres a videooo...uhhh...
Sorry Thats the wrong one...thats for visually impaired peeps...Its this one
Ok theres a taste.......Got the sound a bit...oh well only took me 3 trys.....Windows 7 sorta needs widescreen... At the Tech thing got a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. BTW nah I've forgotten...never mind So, where was I? Oh yea applied to a TV3 Entrepreneur Start-Your-Own-Business competition. My Application got accepted so it may work. Don't stand a chance but nothing ventured.......Then think I made a new friend, I hope so anyway, Paul R, said he might give me a hand. Sent me a nice email...
Applied for a grant with the Enterprise board, took me 15 minutes, well spent I think....Approached three friends to give me a hand...ones accepted so we have the best cybercafé in town as a resource and 12 PCs with a fast Internet connection.....
cool
Oh and got the Local Job club on board. There are about 3000 people unemployed in Tullamore...well 3001 think I lost my job today...Well he hadn't paid me for 3 days... I'd been working for him for 3 weeks. Here is the Job application if anyone needs a job....
Design and print master copies of all flyers and posters
Distribution of flyers in all local shops and premises and to work place industrial estates
3 hours Saturday on-site 9.30 pm to 12.30 am (night) taking professional photos of hen parties, clients and anyone who wants one. (aver 35)
Format photos with professional image editing software, edit and crop as appropriate
Format for web
Manipulate images and process into 3d web gallery software
Up load to web
Create link to gallery from main site
Process images into A4 format (pdf file)
Print two copies and deliver to premises for collection ( printing at employees cost)
Include phone number for clients to have extra copies plus A3 Glossy if required (price at cost of printing)
3 meetings per week re design
Liaise with staff over web content and design
Analyses feedback from staff and clients
Review, test, experiment, hard copy, review
Create regular backups of all work on two external storage facilities with encryption
In the event of death or severe injury, alternative access to all the above must be provided
Must have Professional photography experience of at least 15 years
Should be familiar with html, CSS, Flash, xml, object embedding, design strategies and common operating system extensions
Video editing and familiarisation of YouTube uploading
Preferred Windows 7 compliant. Should have own broadband Internet connection (not supplied)
Candidates will provide their own computer system and maintain it (No assistance given)
Professional membership of all major on-line user groups required
Christmas bonus of €100 may be paid subject to performance, not usually paid in the first year
No holiday entitlement, no sick pay, no pension. Should be available via mobile anytime.
Job may be terminated with 1 hours notice.
The successful candidate will not engage in any work for an establishment conducting a similar business
And will be an active participant in training courses (at candidates own cost0
The successful candidate will have : 10 megapixel camera with zoom , on camera editing, flash , spare memory card and battery back-up (not supplied)
The candidate will be expected to maintain a clean and tidy appearance and of pleasant demeanour with an engaging out-going personality.
Familiarity with current media content required
No expenses
Salary is :
Salary €60 (sixty Euros) per week paid in arrears, tax, national insurance to be arranged by the employee.
Any offers? You get a free Company T Shirt tooo....ok gooa go...
Who said
" I shouldn't have put the two forward slashes in. It would have saved a fortune in printing"
So not only did I have an IDEA I would employ people too. Maybe I will have to put up "Irish People Hate Employment"?
Maybe......
As with all new businesses there were setbacks (You could skip this bit and read Irish People Hate Disabled People but you have probably al ready read it) Any way The Story continues...Don't you just love Blogs?
5. Planned Evening sessions. Nite Club on Saturdays for 16 year olds called WTF? REM: Invite BeardyMan; Monday Nite is Movie Nite Called "That'll Do Pig" opening with "Babe" Theme song Leonard Cohen " Chelsea Hotel...You got away, didn't you, Babe... " . Show "Cool Hand Luke" on Good Friday.
Friday Nite is the Casino Called "Phil's Café Americain" Casablanca playing in the background, roulette wheel for charity "Ravens Kiss"Over 30's only.
The Place looks Gorgeous. Installed LCD screen in the window mirroring the main inside! WOW! Applied to the local peoples bank for €2k.
Ordered a server for 16PatrickStreet.com, 8 gigs of RAM! On Interbnet backbone with 1,800 gigs of bandwidth
6....... > Oh dear. Got beaten up (alledgedly) by the owner's son (alledgedly) and a Thuggee...Got thrown out into the street. Called The Cops but Locks changed. Electricity turned off. All is Dark. Oh dear
Sorry, You must be getting bored.....
Sorry btw ...Got Turned Down by the People's Bank
Set up my Dunne Stores LapTop, plugged into The Internet Thingy
not happy with the cops so complained sort of... Beefed everything up a tad by adding a criminal lawyer and my doctor into the mix.... Popped out for lunch and had a very nice salad with fetta cheese, loads of olives, tikka chicken and Bruschetta on the side The chef makes his own salad dressing. I mean, forget Ceaser..... btw my #irishthursday twitter is so funny...ha ha ha Thought i better be creative to re-charge the old batteries so made this:
Your Question for the day is : “Where did hedgehogs [heyghoge] live before there were hedges?”
Flat Fact : Hedgehogs have changed little over the last 15 million years.
Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!”
Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, (“This is my message to you-ou-ou:”)
Singin’: “Don’t worry ’bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
Singin’: “Don’t worry (don’t worry) ’bout a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!”
Rise up this mornin’,
Smiled with the risin’ sun,
Three little birds
Pitch by my doorstep
Singin’ sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true,
Sayin’, “This is my message to you-ou-ou:”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!
Every little thing gonna be all right. Don’t worry!”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing” – I won’t worry!
“‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right” – I won’t worry!
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing,
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”
Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, oh no!
‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!
Like Matt’s been waiting, hiding in the shadows. Poor Matt, he should really try and get out more. Matt is a friend of mine and I’ve been trying to get him off his computer and actually GO somewhere. I sent him an email : “Hey Matt! Get off your fat arse and do something ! Go on a trip somewhere. I bet your local bus could take you at least out of the neighborhood for a couple of hours.” I hadn’t heard from him for 14 months. Then he sent me this video.
I hear that everyone has a digital camera these days. With the ability to make “moving pictures”? I wonder how they will use them? I once took a picture of a friend taking a picture of me. We put them on a computer looking at each other. Pretty clever a?
Lets Slow Things Down a little. A bit of Time Out / Chill Out
I have a few Good Friends in Real Life (rl) . I have Loads of Friends on line. You might come across this site some time. This is for you and lets face it, it’s how we get by
Ok Be Happy….One Last Video …..Sorry
Ok Ok Ok Too E V I S C E R A L sooreee. I’ll leave you with Iz, The real one I only discovered yesterday. I knew the animated one ages ago. Here they are together.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Research In Motion will introduce a tablet computer in November to compete with Apple Inc's iPad, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the company's plans. […]
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Two security experts said on Friday they released a tool for attacking smartphones that use Google Inc's Android operating system to persuade manufacturers to fix a bug that lets hackers read a victim's email and text messages. […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Research In Motion is not known for its dramatic flair. Like the BlackBerry itself, with its renowned email security, the Canadian smartphone maker seems to put function before form. […]
(Reuters) - Social networking website Facebook Inc may postpone its initial public offering until 2012, Bloomberg said, citing three people familiar with the matter. […]
HELSINKI (Reuters) - An increasingly heated battle in the global smartphone market is set to weigh on handset vendors' profit margins for the rest of the year, analysts said on Friday. […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc said its earlier report that Internet search services in China were being fully blocked could have been the result of a technical glitch that overstated the problem. […]
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to introduce tablet computers this quarter based on Google's Android operating system, joining a growing list of firms seeking to challenge Apple's popular iPad. […]
BANGALORE (Reuters) - Navigation technology company TeleNav Inc warned that a contract renegotiation with its largest customer could lead to a fall in revenue, sending its shares down 16 percent in extended trade. […]
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp set out its ambitions to dominate the consumer electronics market on Thursday with Windows-powered tablet computers and smartphones designed to beat back advances by Apple Inc and Google Inc. […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in Russia's far east has ordered an Internet provider to block five sites which it said disseminated extreme views, prompting U.S. Internet giant Google to say on Thursday the move restricted access to information. […]
About twenty years ago Jobs and Wozniak, the founders of Apple, came up with the very strange idea of selling information processing machines for use in the home. The business took off, and its founders made a lot of money and received the credit they deserved for being daring visionaries. But around the same time, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came up with an idea even stranger and more fantastical: selling computer operating systems. This was much weirder than the idea of Jobs and Wozniak. A computer at least had some sort of physical reality to it. It came in a box, you could open it up and plug it in and watch lights blink. An operating system had no tangible incarnation at all. It arrived on a disk, of course, but the disk was, in effect, nothing more than the box that the OS came in. The product itself was a very long string of ones and zeroes that, when properly installed and coddled, gave you the ability to manipulate other very long strings of ones and zeroes. Even those few who actually understood what a computer operating system was were apt to think of it as a fantastically arcane engineering prodigy, like a breeder reactor or a U-2 spy plane, and not something that could ever be (in the parlance of high-tech) "productized."
Yet now the company that Gates and Allen founded is selling operating systems like Gillette sells razor blades. New releases of operating systems are launched as if they were Hollywood blockbusters, with celebrity endorsements, talk show appearances, and world tours. The market for them is vast enough that people worry about whether it has been monopolized by one company. Even the least technically-minded people in our society now have at least a hazy idea of what operating systems do; what is more, they have strong opinions about their relative merits. It is commonly understood, even by technically unsophisticated computer users, that if you have a piece of software that works on your Macintosh, and you move it over onto a Windows machine, it will not run. That this would, in fact, be a laughable and idiotic mistake, like nailing horseshoes to the tires of a Buick.
A person who went into a coma before Microsoft was founded, and woke up now, could pick up this morning's New York Times and understand everything in it--almost:
* Item: the richest man in the world made his fortune from-what? Railways? Shipping? Oil? No, operating systems.
* Item: the Department of Justice is tackling Microsoft's supposed OS monopoly with legal tools that were invented to restrain the power of Nineteenth-Century robber barons.
* Item: a woman friend of mine recently told me that she'd broken off a (hitherto) stimulating exchange of e-mail with a young man. At first he had seemed like such an intelligent and interesting guy, she said, but then "he started going all PC-versus-Mac on me."
What the hell is going on here? And does the operating system business have a future, or only a past? Here is my view, which is entirely subjective; but since I have spent a fair amount of time not only using, but programming, Macintoshes, Windows machines, Linux boxes and the BeOS, perhaps it is not so ill-informed as to be completely worthless. This is a subjective essay, more review than research paper, and so it might seem unfair or biased compared to the technical reviews you can find in PC magazines. But ever since the Mac came out, our operating systems have been based on metaphors, and anything with metaphors in it is fair game as far as I'm concerned. ....Continued here
Oh dear. Got beaten up (alledgedly) by the owner's son (alledgedly) and a 
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