I was reading a post of Dennis’ recently about the stupidity of airport security regulations and their inconsistent implementation recently and I got to thinking.
First you couldn’t bring guns on a plane, so the terrorists innovated,
Then you couldn’t bring box cutters, nail clippers, scissors on planes, so the terrorists innovated
Then you had to take off your belt and have your shoes scanned, so the terrorists innovated again
Now you can’t bring liquids on a plane.
I really can’t wait to see what airport security does when the terrorists start using boarding cards as weapons!
I came across Mark Woodman’s homepage this morning and was well impressed by it. It is all done by client side scripting and as you can see from the screen shot above, it renders like a terminal window. Even this is configurable so if you are more comfortable in a DOS prompt, click on the DOS link and presto, you have your C:\>
Via Chris Pirillo’s Twitter stream.
I’m heading to Dublin on this Saturday afternoon (March 3rd) for the Irish Blog Awards.
The event starts at 6pm for sponsors and nominees but there is no food being served so I’m going to grab a bite to eat before heading to the Alexander for 6pm.
Does anyone want to meetup for a quick bite to eat around 4:30 or 5pm on Saturday afternoon? And if so, where is good near the Alexander?
UPDATE: Based on comments from Brian and Ed, I think barfood in the Alexander at 5pm it is.
I listened to Conn’s podcast interview with Michael Byrne of QBC Ltd over the weekend.
It was great. Conn and Michael are using podcasts in a very innovative way to radically improve internal company communications.
I’m really looking forward to Conn’s presentation at the it@cork Podcasting for Business event tomorrow night now!
Thanks to Bernie I found two new interesting blogs this morning:
- the first is Karlin Lillington. Karlin is a longtime blogger who has been on a blogging sabattical (not entirely by choice) for some time now but who has just started blogging once more - welcome back Karlin.
- the second is Chris Horn. If you don’t know who Chris is, check out his first post where he talks about his background. Chris is definitely an interesting addition to the Irish blogosphere. I found his blog through Karlin’s!
One slight problem with both of these blogs, though is the lack of open commenting. By that I mean both blogs require you to log in to comment. I don’t have a login for Karlin’s blog so I can’t comment there and I have an old Blogger account that I could use to login to Chris’ to leave a comment but it is a personal account and not relevant to the comments I would want to leave.
Karlin used to allow commenting on her previous blog so I suspect that the issue on this blog is that she is unused to WordPress and it is a configuration error. If this is the case, and you are reading this Karlin, go to Options -> General and uncheck the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” box (apologies if I am teaching granny how to suck eggs!).
In Chris’ case, I have no idea if this is intentional. If it is not and you want to open comments on your blog Chris, in your Blogger blog go to Settings -> Comments and in the “Who Can Comment?” drop-down, choose Anyone.
Having open comments on your blog is the only way to engage in a conversation. Otherwise you are not engaging with your readership, you are merely monologuing (sp?).
it@cork are running an evening event on Podcasting for your Business this coming Tuesday evening (27th February).
Brian Greene and Conn O’Muineachain, the two guest speakers addressing the event are two of Ireland’s top podcasters having won the Netvisionaries Podcasting award last year and the Digital Media Awards Grand Prix award this year respectively!
Conn will be discussing Podcasting for internal company communications (training, best practice, recognition, etc.) while Brian will focus on how easy podcasting is to do, and how the public facing parts of corporate Ireland should be looking at it.
I’ll be chairing the event and moderating the q&a.
The event is free to it@cork member companies and €20 to non-members. This is a great opportunity to meet two of Ireland’s foremost podcasters, I strongly recommend going along, even if you are only wondering what all this podcasting stuff is all about anyway!
[Disclaimer - I am on the steering committee of it@cork]
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