[from radiowaves.fm]Phantom FM is delighted to announce a very positive reaction to the launch of a new podcast series known as “I-Spot”. The station’s new programming stream was launched on February 17th and it supplements the general programming stream which has been available as a podcast since December 4th last year. The I-spot series is…
Month: March 2006
home made ipod amplifier
I was looking for a iPod amp so I got an 1990’s Dictaphone which was unused (record mechanism broken). It didn’t amplify its external input through its built in speaker because in default mode the external input would be a better quality microphone than the built in microphone which suffers motor noise like most Dictaphones…
selling the ‘Shamrock’
SIPTU members in Aer Lingus picketed the Department of Transport in Kildare Street, Dublin, from 12.30pm until 1.30pm in protest at the proposal to privatise Aer Lingus. SIPTU National Industrial Secretary Michael Halpenny said, “it is ironic that Government Ministers are flying out all over the world this week on our national airline to promote…
work rest play, google goes to mars
google goes to mars, meanwhile back on earth gmail is crashing, google pages & analytics are queued. Also on planet earth a us court is set to rule on whether google must hand over records and lists of data to the US government. So if you have any invites for pages & analytics send me…
blog awards end music
as the awards finished I cranked up the iPod to play out the awards with the following tunes John handelaar (chose most) ghost town – the specials [rick o’shea’s Fr. Ted raffle gag comes to life] She Cries Your Name – Beth Orton Hands Off She’s Mine – The Beat Waiting for the great leap…
Geocaching for lunch
It’s Monday morning and the GeoCaching fun begins. We know the general location of the cache and we also know that there are 3 to be located. We also know that these caches were last logged on Friday. When we find them there will be items in the boxes that we are allowed to remove…
Ulster 873
The other day while killing time in the car I dx’ed the MW band on the car radio, and heard live house of commons debate on the air at 873khz, I knew it wasn’t five live as I had passed a phone in on 909am and I checked radio 4 and it wasn’t them. The…
Huge anger as the South Dublin Bin Tax Increases by €2
Huge anger as the Bin Tax Increases by €2 per Tag and Waivers drop from 21,000 to 9,700 in South Dublin. Campaigners against the Bin Tax have called a protest at the South Dublin County Council meeting at 4.30pm next Monday 13th. They are protesting at the €2 per tag hike in the charge and…
Business Blogging
practicing what he is preaching Michele Neylon blogs that he has set up his company’s corporate blog for Blacknight Solutions. Michele led a talk on blogging at the Hilton in Dublin for the IIA (interim Iraqi administration / no Irish Internet Association) . The talk took the format of a talk which mingled as a…