Armor Geddon has posted a 60Mb video(the bottom one marked IED) of a patrol in Iraq, and how to deal with a suspected IED. Here is his account of the day.
Month: June 2005
Corruption in Ireland – Irishcorruption.com
Well my new weblog has been up and running now since the 15th of June, making it two weeks old today. As other have noted, it has ended up as the first result on Google for “Irish corruption”.
I have been watching the server logs very closely for these two weeks. I was surprised to see just how many gov.ie people came in to read the blog. I reckon in and around 90 visits were from the gov.ie domain, with many of those staying for up to 30 minutes to look around. As well as that I had visitors from heanet.ie, tcd.ie, ucd.ie, NUI Galway, tch.ie (Examiner or Sunday Business Post) and a large number of referrals from Indymedia, and over a dozen weblogs, some of whom link to Irish corruption but not to Gavin’s blog (fair enough).
In the two weeks visitors have numbered 825, with 2,150 page impressions. That really isn’t all that bad I think. Pagerank remains stubbornly at zero, but all in good time I guess.
And I must thank everyone out there for linkage and words of support, it really is much appreciated.
U2 Videos
I recorded some small low quality videos with my mobile phone – they are barely watchable so forgive me – but here’s two anyway.
Original of the Species (3GP file, Quicktime needed, or Realplayer with the codec)
Bono (and 82,000 people) singing Unchained Melody (briefly).
Back
Well the U2 concert was spectacular, some photos posted here. Now I just need time to recover and catch up!
U2 in Croke Park
Its a beautiful summers evening, Ash are playing, U2 will follow shortly. What a spectacular stadium. Hope Cork make it here for the all-Ireland hurling final!
I have posted photos here.
Giving justice its due: George Perkovich
The latest edition of Foreign Affairs is full to brim with excellent essays. One of my favourites is Perkovich’s essay on justice. It is wide ranging and well written, taking in various disciplines from economics to evolutionary psychology. I will post more about it once I get near a computer. Perkovich is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Bono and Rummy on Meet the Press
MSNBC have a transcript of Bono’s appearance on Meet the Press…
U2 Gig, Croke Park
Im off up to Dublin tomorrow to catch the last U2 gig in Croke Park, I will try and get some posting done tomorrow anyway. I will also post photos of the gig when I get back!
Satellite photos of Ireland and the world
Google continue to update their satellite image database, Ireland is now in higher resolution, along with large tracts of the the rest of the world. Cork, Dublin and other areas are in very high resolution.
Here are some of the satellite maps websites:
Google Maps – Ireland
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Microsoft Live Maps – with aerial “bird’s eye” photography of major cities.
Software piracy 'seen as normal'
This seems to be the widespread perception anyway:
Two UK university researchers found that people did not see downloading copyrighted material as theft.