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These tall evergreens planted in front of a set of small houses in Oracle were almost gone before I saw them. The scene looked bizarre. Tall trees, tiny houses. I wonder who lives in them?
Here it is on Google Maps. Try the Street View, you’ll see two cars pulled up in front of the same house as in my photo. Spooky.
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Tags: Arizona, Automattic, Black and White, Canon 10-22, Canon 20D, cars, clouds, desert, Houses, irishblogs, motion blur, Oracle, Photography, Photos, Sky, Trees, UrbanJohn Baucher launched his Ttv (Through the Viewfinder) exhibition ‘Old meets New’ last week. The exhibition runs in the Black Box until 16th Sept. Here is a shot he took of me outside the venue:
10 yrs on, too much Google? Still doing no Evil?
They have amassed more information about people in 10 years than all the governments of the world put together. They make the Stasi and the KGB look like the innocent old granny next door.
Google’s tentacles are everywhere. It runs services for blogging, email, instant messaging, shopping and social networking. It offers a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other tools to rival Microsoft’s products in the workplace. It is building a software platform for mobile phones that may challenge Apple’s iPhone and others. It has just launched Knol, a peer-reviewed encyclopedia to take on Wikipedia. In America, Google Health enables users to maintain their own medical records. The company is also working on language translation, speech recognition and video search.
Eight people actually bought the ‘I am Rich’ iPhone App: Six people from the United States, one from Germany and one from France dropped a grand for the gem in the first 24 hours it was available.
Some pretty surface pattern designs.
Orbitrunner: Try to keep the planets orbiting the sun in the allocated time, without going outside the given space. It’s bloody difficult.
Wired Up have some good band promo tips.
The Guardian does LOLBush.
A robot with the ‘brain’ of a rat.
Is this not taking the digital age a little too far?
Some incredible shots on the Pix.ie blog from the Guiness Storehouse photowalk last weekend. I so wish I could have gone.
Unfortunately racism is still rife in Belfast.
The River Liffey in Dublin, taken from the O’Connell Bridge. Having posted a similar style shot from Cork, I thought it was time to post this.
Haven’t been to Dublin since 4th July… I miss it already.
I was thinking of updating my O2 Saga post but decided to give this a separate write up instead.
Yesterday when I should have been “opening the shutter”, I instead got a phone call from O2 Head office. I will not name names but the person I spoke to, had read the post, and to be frank, seemed appalled. I spent quite some time on the phone reiterating what was already up in writing on the post, but the more I went into it, the more they understood my frustration and were suprised at the fact I had stuck with them.
I tried to explain that the post was in no way an attempt from a blogger to start a hate campaign against O2, but more a way for people who may be thinking of changing network to get some insight at how I was treated as a long term customer, and that all I had ever wanted from the past month and a half, was a genuine apology, which is not much to ask.
There was no questions asked about the possibility of taking the post down, which I have to say is good to see.
I did get that apology and I think it was very much meant, and as I said to that person today in a text “thank you for taking the time to read what I said and for making that call.”
Supposedly another call should be finding its way to me from customer care, I look forward to hearing from them.
One thing that will not change is under no circumstances will I ever walk through the doors of the experience store on Grafton Street ever again after this weeks phone/counter experience.
“Last night my husband and I were sitting in the family room. I said to him,
‘I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine,
and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. That would be no quality of life at all. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.’
So he got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.”
Babóg, I’ sorry I’m always getting sucked into the computer!
In other news, last night we completely ignored the computer (we didn’t even turn on the internet or the TV and didn’t even notice, shocka) as we were having a couple of friends over for dinner. We cooked this, this and this, and it was yum. Maybe it’s the recessionista in me talking, but staying in and cooking dinner was a million times more fun that going out.
Tonight, we’re heading to see Life of Brian at the closing night of Movies on the Square. Tomorrow, if I get through enough work, I hope to join in on the Dublin leg of the Worldwide Photo Walk. And on Sunday, weather permitting, we might pop out to the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire.
Have a fun weekend!
we just couldn't waste such a background once we saw it, hence this improvised pseudo-photosession.
