Cleaning my screen

Not a huge fan of this screen cleaner.

Left the screen a bit of a mess. Cute though!

:-P

The future of laptop designs?

Name: Mandy
How often do you use a computer? Five times a week.
What do you like to do when you’re using a computer? Play games and write stories and poems.

What will computers look like in the future? Well you see, if we had whole days to work on it, and bigger paper, I think we could make it way more detailed.

[ After being told this interview would be published on the internet ] “I’m going to be popular! I should make a blog button, right now.”

Mandy's laptop design (from The Laptop Club, all rights reserved) is cool. I especially love the HP trivia button. I love the fact she wants to blog about her interview. I also love the fact that Mandy is only 8.

From this article comes the story of the laptops designed by kids aged between 7 and 9.

Even with relatively little exposure to computers, these children have absorbed ideas about shopping online, interacting socially with virtual pets and real friends, and even media convergence with their favorite movies and songs loaded on the laptops.

Just back from Spain

After a hiatus abroad where I took some time away from the "interweb" to work on the "internet", I'm back in Dublin.


I'm looking forward to educating myself and exploring the web again.

one random act deserves another...

Ted from innocent has just emailed me a link to their blog...

Hello innocent drinkers :)

I'll just use this opportunity to say - buy the book, do something nice and have a lovely weekend...

And have a look at/listen to this - my favourite song of the moment:



(I wish I had my blog more up to date!)

A hug from Innocent Smoothies on a rainy afternoon

It's the little things like this video that innocent drinks posted that can turn a day around...

I'm a self confessed innocent smoothies addict. I read their blog, get their newsletter and drink their drinks. I could have done with one today (no time) but they posted this today in their daily thoughts and it's almost as good (in a virtual kind of way).



Can't help but wonder if it would work in Dublin though? Would (could) you dare??

There'll be no excuse for not knowing

Bebo and Twitter taking over my life...

I read today in the ever informative Silicon Republic that Bebo is going mobile.

Between them and Twitter, pretty soon only "I couldn't get online" will be my only excuse for not knowing what my (online) friends are up to...

Serious Fun with Bandanas to be had May 12th

On Sunday May 12th, grab a Bandana for Barretstown and have Serious Fun.







This year's Serious Fun Day for Barretstown should see something a bit different to the usual pins and flowers and ribbons and wristbands on the streets. There's a Barretstown Bandana!

Barretstown are hoping to raise €100,000 on the day to bring more kids with cancer and other serious illness to the castle. The bandanas are on sale in Smyths Toystores from April 28th.

It's a very visible way of showing support for one of the most deserving children's charities I've ever had the pleasure of being involved with. Bit of (serious) fun too!

At only €2.00 each, buying one is a great way to ensure that children from Ireland, the UK and 21 European countries can continue to have fun at that magical place.

You can order a box of 50 for your office or workplace by calling +353 (0)45 864 115 or emailing serious.fun@barretstown.org.

Each year there are 12,000 new cases of childhood cancer in Europe. Barretstown can currently help up to 1,600 children with serious illnesses and family members each year. And boy, do they help! The results are evident.

Just to maintain these numbers, they have to raise €5 million each year and 96% of this money comes from companies and individuals. Every little bit helps.

I'll definitely be wearing one or two. And buying them for friends... and strangers...

Would you be bothered twittering on?

Twitter: now you can see EXACTLY what I'm thinking (when (and if) I post it).

This whole Interweb 2.0 is great. Thanks to Bebo, I can see how Orla's doing in Australia, thanks to Flickr I can share my photos and see other friends' ones, I can catch up with people on Vox.com, thanks to Yahoo answers I can find out things like this, thanks to netvibes I can have my own homepage almost the way I want it and thanks to Last.fm I can groove while writing this (as Stephen so kindly put it) "waffle".

Twitter.com takes the waffle part to the next level. It's people's thoughts as they post them from around the world. I'd heard about it but Donncha joining up made me go and have a look...

Here's a really good post for newcomers about it. So it's people doing what people used to do way back in the day when blogs were weblogs. Enter text. Hit submit. It's a stripped down version of Bebo and My Space and it lets you see where your friends are and what they're doing - if they post. If they can be bothered. I have. Not sure if I will again though...

Twittervision helps you follow them around on Google Maps. "Interesting" is probably not the exact word I'd use, but from a web 2.0 angle you have to give it to them - they're certainly connecting the world!

So here I am... another page with my name on it. What am I doing now? Posting on Twitter that I've posted this here of course...