…last night to a nice guy from Wroclaw. The car was a 1992 Volkswagen Jetta Pacific Diesel, and I had just put it for sale on Car Zone on Friday. It was in good condition with a new NCT and quite low mileage for its age, so I had a lot of calls and texts from six or seven people who were very interested. Got some e-mail queries as well, but they sounded less serious…
I am sad to see it go (despite it almost being “the most bogger car” ever according to a guy on P45!), but I had it for 10 years so you do grow attached. Luckily, the new owner seems to have a talent for maintaining and restoring Volkswagens, so I know it has gone to a good home.
Now to get a new car! I’m looking for a Honda Civic 5-door hatchback, 2001 or 2002…
Anyone else from the Irish boggersphere going to BarCamp Belfast at the end of the month?
I will be giving a talk on “Semantic Web 2.0″ - or how the Semantic Web can aid Web 2.0 sites…
Looking forward to the event, and if you’re thinking of attending, sign up at the link below!
http://barcamp.org/BarCampBelfast
Just did a search for “honda ad” on YouTube (looking for that ad where the parts of the car all tumble in sequence to turn on another car) and got a nice big Apache error…
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, web@youtube.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache Server at www.youtube.com Port 80
I didn’t realise Apache powered YouTube - nice one!
I got my copy of the book “BlogTalk Reloaded: Social Software - Research & Cases” in the post yesterday, and am very happy with it (thanks Jan!).
The book is edited by Thomas N. Burg and Jan Schmidt, and you can get it from your bookstore (the ISBN number is 3833496142), at Libri.de or at Amazon.de.
You can access the table of contents and also preview our chapter on the SIOC Browser via the wiki for BlogTalk. Also available are danah boyd’s “The Significance of Social Software” and Jan Schmidt’s “Social Software: Facilitating Information-, Identity- and Relationship Management“. Thomas N. Burg’s “<not a preface>” provides a nice introduction to the book.
…that I bought recently are the Logik IR100 Internet Radio, and the Belkin VoIP Skype Cordless Phone.
The Logik IR100 Internet Radio does what it says on the tin - it allows you to listen to radio stations over the Internet. I bought it from PC World for €120, and there are models from Morphy Richards and Philips in Argos that do much the same thing (although they are more expensive - one of them has an SD slot for recording programmes). The Logik box is very easy to install: turn it on and it shows a list of available wi-fi networks for you to connect to (both open and encrypted). The radio uses the Reciva service, which is basically a big directory of radio stations (like the Shoutcast directory). It can stream MP3, Real Audio or Windows Media-based stations. There are five preset buttons where you can store your favourite stations, and another nice feature is the fact that it can detect any Windows shares or UPnP servers on your LAN, and stream any music files from those shared servers (I have a UPnP on my Dreambox, and it works fine with that). So far, I’ve found it very good and easy to use. My main problem seems to be with stations that drop every now and again (even national ones like RTÉ), so I’m trying to figure out if it is my network connection or something else…
The Belkin VoIP Skype Cordless Phone is a little bit different from most Skype phones that you see in the shops, in that it does not require you to have a USB link to your PC (it connects straight to a wi-fi connection). I got it from PC World for €130, but there is a similar product on Skype.com for €139. It comes preinstalled with custom Skype software so that, like the radio, it’s simply a matter of turning it on and it will detect local wi-fi networks. After connecting to wi-fi, it’s very similar to PC-based Skype clients - you logon with your Skype ID and password, and can see your Skype credit and contacts list along with their online status. There is no instant messaging facility, but if you want to contact someone by voice and happen to be near a wi-fi connection without a PC, it’s a very useful gadget…
…last night to a nice guy from Wroclaw. The car was a 1992 Volkswagen Jetta Pacific Diesel, and I had just put it for sale on Car Zone on Friday. It was in good condition with a new NCT and quite low mileage for its age, so I had a lot of calls and texts from six or seven people who were very interested. Got some e-mail queries as well, but they sounded less serious…
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