Blog | Liam O'Donnell

don’t forget to love

by liam | Feb 13, 2004 | pre-wp

I love my partner and the above card from meish.org is why. Sickening isn?t it. But it captures my feelings about V-day perfectly. The following rant, however, rambles a bit and I apologize for that. Once again, another date looms dictating how we should be feeling....

internal editor be gone!

by liam | Feb 11, 2004 | pre-wp

“What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time. Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together. Why: The reasons are endless! To...

star-bellies revisited

by liam | Feb 9, 2004 | pre-wp

After much debate and much snooping over my partners shoulder, I?ve decided to accept her invitation to Orkut. Despite my Sneetches rant from the other day, I still feel a bit weird about being in something that is ?invite only.? But after seeing some of the other...

access is king

by liam | Feb 7, 2004 | pre-wp

Jumped over to Douglas Rushkoff?s blog today and that led me to this interesting article he wrote for TheFeature.com about owning data. The traditional view held that when you buy a book, CD, DVD or any other form of content, you own that content (and are thus...

orkut?s star-bellied sneetches

by liam | Feb 6, 2004 | pre-wp

Today my partner got invited to Orkut. And it has raised some interesting questions in our blog-filled home. Of all the first-generation social software knocking around web, Orkut has received the most flack. From Danah Boyd to Cory Doctorow, Orkut has been much...

keeping auntie strong

by liam | Feb 3, 2004 | pre-wp

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.” ? George Orwell In the late ?90s, I lived in Northern Ireland and England and did a lot of work for the BBC. So it?s with both surprise and growing anger that I find out that it may be the...

ebook creep

by liam | Jan 29, 2004 | pre-wp

Earlier today, while I was tempted away from writing by that tantalising internet explorer button in my desktop tray, I landed on the Guardian?s site and found this piece about ebooks. Remember them? Well it seems that despite losing two major distributors (Barnes...

i’m backed up, are you?

by liam | Jan 28, 2004 | pre-wp

I run an OLD system and I ask a lot of it. So, I am in constant fear of my old P166 (you read right 1 – 6 – 6) just refusing to go one day. That fear was reinforced the other day when Robert Paterson posted this: “My hard drive crashed this weekend....