Mark Henry Murphy

Or, ‘Anime Dublin 2013′.

On Saturday April 6th I had the pleasure of partaking in the organisation of Anime Dublin 2013, a one day Japanese culture event catering mostly (actually almost entirely) to Ireland’s growing anime/manga convention scene.

Anime Dublin 2013

The remit of the day is simple – as it’s relatively small (270 people this year) there’s a greater focus on the socialising aspect rather than organising ornate shows or big showcase events.  So there’s no big stage with 4 hours of gameshows and the games room is less than a quarter the size of Eirtakon.  It’s simply not the point of Anime Dublin.

With that in mind we split the venue into three.  A large main room twice the size of the other rooms where we arranged a seating area in one corner and a large open space at the opposite end for about a dozen random games and tournaments we cooked up in advance.  Quick play, easy to pick up medium-scale fares like Anime Pictionary, Speed Friending (like speed dating but considerably less pervy and easier to get into), Twister and so on.  In between we’d show anime shorts that required absolutely no attention span whatsoever, such as AMV Hell and a battery of AMVs a former Eirtakon committee member likely pulled from Kazaa in 2001 (they were fantastic, incidentally).  In addition there were a few tables catering to various interests such as a bring n buy section and an origami area.

The other two rooms were a gaming room and a panels/screening room, both of which were open from 10am til 10pm.

From the feedback I’ve seen so far some people were expecting a more large convention atmosphere, complete with a traders hall, 2/3 screening & panel rooms and a games room packed out with 20 TVs and stinking like the gates of hell.  It’s not something that ever occurred to me as I always saw Anime Dublin as a small & well structured social event (although other than that the feedback was overwhelmingly positive and contained some constructive ideas for next year).  Interesting peoples perceptions of Anime Dublin in that regard, hopefully we can change it in the years ahead.

So anyway that’s the rough structure of Anime Dublin.  What makes it interesting is that it’s the first event I’ve been involved in that was organised and advertised entirely on Facebook, with the exception of a handful of Twitter posts.  The organising committee had a closed group and everything happened from there – meeting times, venue location suggestions, money talk and, oh, literally everything related to running the day.

And, amazingly, it went quite well.  It actually went as well compared to my preferred traditional medium of organising, that of private forums.  My main concern still remains that a larger event would easily spiral out of control on a Facebook group as the lack of effective threaded discussion separation and detailed search function would quickly turn everything into a shit soup. I have however been proved wrong that it’s not possible to organise events via Facebook – quite the opposite as it saves from having to buy domains/set up forums/get committee people to register etc.

On a marketing level, such is the advanced current nature of Facebook integration to many Irish peoples daily lives, reaching out to our target audience was quite easy.  There are literally dozens of active Irish-based anime & Japanese culture groups on Facebook and they’re all happy to hear about new events etc.  Taking a quick look at each and seeing what they’re into, tailoring a quick post to their interests and keeping an eye on the thread for any follow-up questions is quick and easy PR.

Another tactic was using existing channels via Eirtakon’s and Nom-Con’s Facebook and Twitter pages, which gave AD exposure to several thousand people on a regular basis.

The whole setup worked, as some 67% of survey respondents said they heard about the event through Facebook.

Now, downsides.  As I said, I think with a larger event and multiple different threads going on consistently at the same time across different departments, it would quickly descend into a shit storm of confusion and… shit.  I also don’t think that only Facebook should be used for advertising – while everybody might be on FB, that doesn’t mean everybody looks at what you’re posting!  So diversity of media is very necessary to reach a wider audience.  But, for what it is, and how it panned out, and how the word was spread, everything worked very well indeed.

You know the drill – Friday night or anytime after midday Saturday, you want to meet up with friends for a pint or two but also would enjoy the arcane luxury of a seat and quiet/nonexistent music in the background.  A dirty bar stool, packet of Tayto and, of course, a decent pint wouldn’t go amiss either.

Easier said than done in central Dublin!  The suburbs might be packed full of choices (the excellent Vaughan’s in Terenure being one of my favourite examples) but within the confines of the canals and within a few miles east/west of O’Connell St, it’s generally a plethora of pubs-cum-clubs, soulless barns, overpriced tourist traps and, worst of all, places people are actually expected to pay into!  Madness, surely.

There are a few alternatives, mercifully.  And they don’t have to involve back alleys or stinking toilets.  Now these pubs aren’t necessarily part of the craft beer movement that’s shifting through Dublin at the minute, rather I’ve picked them for their atmosphere, charm, location and pint quality.  No offence to the likes of Against the Grain of Brew Dock, you guys are all awesome, but this is a different dynamic I’m going for here.  I’ve also arranged the pubs in alphabetical order because I’m a bit pedantic like that.

The Czech Inn
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Checkin’ in at the Czech Inn!  The ground floor of the Czech Inn is a well known night club hot spot, complete with blaring music and people faling over themselves for one reason or another.  There’s a little-known upstairs, best accessed by going immediately right upon entering (i.e. before the door to the ground floor club) and taking a trip up an old wooden set of stairs.  You’ll be rewarded with a relatively quiet, laid-back bar consisting of easygoing Eastern European types, a decent selection of beers and strange liqueurs, a guaranteed seat any night of the week and pretty decent views of the Temple Bar area.

There’s a downside in that nothing is particularly cheap (unless you enjoy Tennant’s, you strange individual) but if the tradeoff is a quiet pint up til 3am 7 days a week, I think it’s worthwhile.  Easily one of the finest bars in central Dublin.

O’Neills of Pearse Street
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A fantastic old pub around the back of Trinity College, O’Neills bears almost no resemblance to the overcrowded O’Neill’s on Suffolk Street.  Better pints, too.  Being relatively close to the IFSC there’s always an after work crowd hanging around here, especially on Fridays, though it never gets jam packed and the music is always kept tastefully low.

A no-nonsense pub where time slips by.  Mercifully overlooked by the pre-club crowd.

J. O’Connell
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Somewhat away from the centre of town yet conversely right beside the busiest late night area in Dublin (Whelan’s, The Palace etc being about two hundred meters down the road), J. O’Connell may as well be a pub at the end of a one-way road off the coast of Mayo.  The €4 price tag for Guinness & Smithwick’s would certainly fool you into believing so!

The Library Bar, Central Hotel
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A very strange bar upstairs in the Central Hotel that does as the name implies, very much resembling a library more than a pub.  Seemingly largely ignored by Dublin folk (possibly terrified by the prospect of an American tourist asking them about leprechauns – it never happens).  It can get busy early evenings on weekends and it does appear to be getting progressively better known in certain circles, but if you can grab a comfy seat near a window the views of George’s St/Wexford St are second to none.

Oh, and they pour a good Beamish.  Always a plus.  Avoid the spirits as they’re stacked against a window that lovingly catches the sun for most of the afternoon.

Incidentally if I haven’t mentioned it before, check out Publin – a pretty cool website guiding you through most major pubs in Dublin central.

I figured I’d do a bit of a better job documenting all the Google shenanigans that we’re going through at the minute, as at the least it provides some entertainment at the levels of red tape we’re mired in.  If you didn’t read my initial post, check here to bring yourself up to speed.  Or alternatively, TL;DR trying to make Google stop doing bad things.  Apologies if this is as dry as a dozen cream crackers in your mouth, but this was hardly going to be Mills & Boon

Google were quick and easy to fob off the complaint.  Their full reply, which I received a few days after lodging the initial complaint in early April, I will paste below:

“However, please note that we still cannot process your original complaint as the registration you’ve submitted contains a design or formatting element. Our advertising system is text-based, and therefore we can’t process complaints for trademarks that incorporate a design or formatting element.

Please note that we do not accept mixed mark registrations as evidence of a word mark registration, as mixed marks are composed of both text and design elements. The combination of these elements is often what gives the trademark its distinctiveness, and Google is not in a position to extend trademark rights beyond what trademark offices have granted.”

This is simply company policy designed to allow them to do whatever they want while maximising profits for themselves.  I don’t take much stock in it as a response and I think it’s rather ridiculous they’re fighting so hard in various courts internationally to hold onto this practice.  To me, I don’t see their point, all I see is a clear-cut case of impersonation.  Maybe I’m naive but clearly I’m not alone.

There are of course a number of potential avenues to explore when officially dealing with advertising-related complaints.  These can be roughly broken down into political and industrial.  Let’s observe, shall we?  Yes.

Political
This is, simply, contacting politicians.  Now who exactly would be directly responsible for such a complaint I’m not sure, and given the responses (actually lack of) I’ve received from various people I’m guessing it’s not something any of them want to deal with.  I contacted the following fellows: Richard Bruton (Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation), John Perry (Minister of State for Small Business) and Sean Sherlock (Minister of State for Research and Innovation).  They were all contacted on the 20th of April.

I received an acknowledgement email from Richard Bruton’s secretary on the 20th, and from Sean Sherlock’s assistant/secretary (not sure which) on May 3rd.  I am yet to receive anything from John Perry’s office (a sign I’m barking up the wrong ministerial tree there?).

On Wednesday May 16th I received a reply from Sean Sherlock, by way of his assistant/secretary (secretant?) Scott Foley.  It was remarkably helpful and pretty clearly outlined to me what I suspected, that on a national level there’s really very littlecan be done.  Given Google’s deep involvement in Ireland I would imagine few politicians are interested in so much as brushing a finger against that boat, much less rocking it.

Anyway, in his letter he mentions that Google is the subject of a number of pending separate competition cases with the European Commission, and that one is very similar to the issues I had outlined to him (again, refer to my previous post).  What I find interesting is his next paragraph, which I’ll reproduce here:

“On the basis that your complaint has an EU dimension to it in so far as it affects trade between Member States, the Commission is the body best placed to carry out an investigation of your complaint.”

Very curious!  Bureaucracy runs deep in this one.  I’m guessing by his interpretation of the complaint as potentially having an affect of trade between Member States, he means that the accused perpretrator is UK-based.  Makes sense though it opens up a whole new world – deal with the European Commission?  Oh my.  We’ll have to have a think about that.

I have to thank Minister Sherlock for his informative reply.  He’s quite a bit younger and more tuned-in to online media and business than most other politicans, despite the ire he drew recently for his insistance on forcing Ireland in line with an outdated EU law.

Industrial
There are a few things going on here.  There’s The Advertising Standards Authority Authority to start with.  They were contacted in mid April and again they recently got back to us (bureaucracy is a slow mover).  They contacted the other party in question with the complaints we laid down, which the other party of course refuted.  They brought to our attention a ruling by the European Court of Justice in the Google France case, which you can read about here.  Ultimately the ASA sided with the other party on the case, primarily on the basis of the Google France ruling.  The ASA has shown itself to be a completely toothless entity anyway so I’m not surprised by this.

Secondly, there’s The Competition Authority.  Interestingly The Competition Authority has a Monopolies Division, so if you’re worried about that sort of thing you know where to go.  Theirs was equally as tearse and shoulder-shrugging, basically saying they’re powerless on the subject until a European Court ruling comes down that directly relates to Ireland.  Come back to them in a few years in other words.

It’s disappointing that there are no legal precedents for this behaviour in Ireland and when dealing on a European level the movement of time is such that years will pass by before a finger is moved.  So right now, we’re stuck at something of an impass where nobody wants to take responsibility for fear of having to do work, and all eyes look to Europe.

Right, so at Experience Japan this year I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel with Seán Hand from the Eirtakon committee and two folks from the Nom-Con committee.  We were given pretty short notice of it so had a bit of a rush t put things together.  Eventually we agreed on a format of giving a general overview of anime conventions, from their beginnings in Japan, their emergence in American and the export of the American format over to Europe and recently to Ireland.

Seán is a guy who knows a lot about the makeup of an anime con, having been involved with Eirtakon from the beginning.  He’s also got brains that he often puts to good use and is quite god at public speaking.  So for the majority of the panel we let him lead the way.  Best move really!

We kept things pretty vague and general.  The audience wasn’t that of people knowledgeable of anime conventions, of even people who could give a toss about anime, so we tried not to confuse/bore.  Probably we failed miserably – the subject matter is hardly on how to swallow exploding knives with flaming hilts.  For what it was I think we did a good job and couldn’t have broken it down much further.  There was maybe 15 people there and once you take out a few members of other committees there was maybe 10 spectators to our car crash, which wasn’t too bad considering.

We only had about 20mins for the panel, meaning we had to run through things pretty fast and there was no time for Q&A.  Towards the end more people started turning up but this turned out to be because the next panel was a guy in a full samurai suit!  Far more interesting stuff.

I put together a Powerpoint presentation for the panel and if you’re bored enough to flick through it you can grab it here.  We did a vaguely similar panel at Anime Dublin last weekend but I’ll leave it for another day to wax lyrical about that.

Interesting piece of news coming from Australia today, that Google has been found guilty by the Australian Federal Court of hosting misleading ads via Google Adwords.

This is an issue that concerns me quite a bit, as it’s something I have to contend with on a daily basis (see below image).

Company impersonation in Adwords is, currently, a-ok in Ireland

To put it another way, as described in El Reg’s article;

Travel agency STA Travel, for example, bought ads that appeared when Google users searched for rival travel agency Harvey World Travel. The copy for some of those ads mentioned Harvey World Travel, but the embedded links sent users to the STA Travel website. Several other companies indulged in similar practices.

Now, I’m not blaming the companies who buy the ads for this.  All’s fair in love and war and many industries are quite cut-throat, with the bleeding edge usually being in legal grey areas, or morally unsettling ones.  There’s also an issue of actual laws covering this behaviour of which there is precious few globally.  Another example of how unfortunately far behind the internet legal practice is.

So I do agree with the court ruling, that the onus should be on Google to prevent this from happening.  This isn’t an issue of a company getting one over on a competitior, it’s a company misleading consumers as to what links they’re clicking.  It’s equivalent of spam/malware links that trick people into downloading trojans under the premise of a free game.

The consumer suffers because they’re not getting the service they thought they were clicking into.  Google suffers because users lose trust with them – Google are serving me up fake ads!  Why should I trust them?  So it surprises me that Google are so resistant to handling this affair internally when I can only see reputational damage as being the likely outcome.

Also, obviously, as a person who’s getting the bad end of Google’s policies on this matter, it sucks that a company is allowed to walk over us and I’m not able to do much of anything about it.  That much is obvious.

Looking over some info on Google’s site about the matter you can find the following notice:

Please note the regions where we will investigate ad text only. We will not disable keywords in response to a trademark complaint in these regions.

Which translates as ‘Tough, deal with it, not our problem’.  I don’t so much blame Google for this stance as more the lack of relevant legislation in most countries pertaining to this issue, but I do think they should have taken initiative on it rather than waiting and letting a mounting swell of bad press build in the background.

The case in Australia is a landmark one that I don’t think Google will appeal.  It’s also highly unlikely it will force a rollout of policy changes globally, rather just specific to Australia.  Which is a shame.  So for the moment in Ireland we’re stuck with a free-for-all where companies can essentially dump on each other from above, damaging consumer confidence, while Google sits back on a legislation-free couch.

Well it’s about time something like this happened!  Anime Dublin, the brainchild of Eirtakon and Nom-Con, is a one day event we’re putting together.  It’s gonna takeplace in the Central Hotel on Exchequer Street this April 14th.

Huge thanks to John Doyle for the name.  Story time!  Before John (co-founder of Eirtakon) moved to Boston about 4 years ago, he had started making moves into running an independent anime convention.  My understandng is he had poked about a few venues before he upped sticks and landed States-side, but he had also thought of a fantastic name – Anime Dublin.  Therefore, 2012 A.D (apologies to those who use alternate date counters/Star Trek diehards).  I think it’s pretty cool.

Anime Dublin 2012 A.D.

The character design is a bit of a departure from the usual anime con style and intention.  There’s no giant-boobed girl, or lolita dresses/suits, or young pretty people.  There’s a large somewhat amorphous dinosaur/crocodile/green thing holding a signboard and grinning & staring like Totoro.  To me that’s way more anime than generic lolita characters.  It’s original and bold.  I like it.

So Sharkey from Nom-Con made the design and I farted some text on top.  Logos are totally hit and miss.  Some people specialise in them and are amazing, it’s a fine skill that very few people have.  Most of us aren’t that lucky.  I tried putting something together and I think it looks pretty decent.  I’m definitely happy with the text look, it’s solid and a bit powerful, and the blend of fonts seems to work quite well.  The A and D are actually a different font from the rest of the logo; I needed long characters that were in good proportion to each other – that probably took up the majority of time I spent on the logo.  The main text came together easily and its layout is basic enough.  The €5 entry widget is a result of me messing about with things in InDesign (usually the best way of getting ideas!).

Overall I’m pretty happy with it.

We’re putting together the timetable at the minute and it’s been very smooth.  Literally things falling into place like stocking a shelf.  I suppose given we only have three rooms when we’re all used to a dozen, much larger, rooms, it was bound to happen this way.  I’m glad it has!

What’s heartened me most is the response from people.  It’s been crazy, almost 200 people saying they’re going on Facebook after only a week!  We opened a (free) pre-reg system over the weekend and within 24 hours almost 50 people had taken up the option.  I’ve never seen a response like that to an anime event in Ireland before.  Fantastic.

I’ll keep you all up to date with this as it develops & will wax more lyrical on Tha D about it later this week.

Wrote a few new pieces over the last few weeks, which I’ll now go into excruciating detail about!  Hurrah!

First up I wrote a new Eirtaku in the Wild piece, giving an overview of Akumakon 2012 and talking some shite or other about Eirtakon.  I had a good time at Akumakon and got to spend a while around Galway, though not as much as I’d have liked (then again if I had spend the entire time wandering about Galway going from cafe to cafe it still wouldn’t have been enough).  I’d like to see Akumakon get a lot bigger next year and step up again.  The Sat night stuff was well organised and more of that level of organisation and event quality throughout the weekend will be putting some real petrol in the tank.  Not my place to say anything about it but I like to see cons doing well and pushing things forward rather than just blindly following everyone else.

I heard someone mention something to me about a potential anime con in Cork.  I can’t remember who said it or who they were talking about but if anyone knows anything about it, please do get in touch with me as I’d love to hear more.  It’s about time Cork got an anime con going and there’s a ripe timeslot of March-May that’s perfect for it.  Please, no more summer cons

Had a chance to see Henry Rollins a few weeks ago in Vicar Street, wrote up a piece for Drop-D.ie which you can peruse here.  Fastest two hours 45 minutes of your life and completely fantastic.  I won’t bother explaining so here’s a Youtube clip of his, eh, performance?  Is that the right word?  I have no idea.  Myself and my friend were talking about this last weekend and categorising Rollins is basically impossible, as he fits into no pre-conceived entertainment genres and touches on almost every button where other performances (be it musical, poetic, visual or any number of other potentials) focus in on one.  And he achieves it all by talking nonstop at you for the duration.  Fascinating, to me.

Eirtakon flyer 2012

Threw together the first Eirtakon flyer of 2012 last week, which you can see to your right! It’s a departure from previous years which were focused on two styles:

- Earlier 2007 MKII – 2010 designs were all based on a white background with heavy use of the Eirtakon font
- (later) 2010 & 2011 designs, which used a background supplied by Lori’s artist, Swissy (which he may just have used to provide contrast but I ended up quite liking them)

This year I went with the Ghost in the Shell style Lori theme and took it a bit further with the text-based background.  I have no idea what it says (so it could be rather offensive for all I know) but I like the effect and I think it fits in better with Lori than most of the previous designs have, with the exception of Phil’s conbook cover design.  I’ve also used a different font for most of the text to better fit in with the GiTS scheme, called Bitwise.  Check it out, it’s a really cool font!  It has a few variants from aficionados who go into delightful detail about the art of monospacing.

It’s a very busy background but I think people are digging it so far.  My one worry was that nothing would stand out and it would be a black/green mush.  To an extent that did happen but I wouldn’t have known until it was printed on a litho machine.  Next batch I’ll work on amending this, perhaps lightening the green or doing something – something – with the background.

I was under a tight deadline to get it agreed on and printed in time for Akumakon 2012 which is never ideal, I prefer to bang something down, come back in an hour, completely redo it, leave it for a few days and then completely redo it again.  It usually ends up better.

As it is I really like the concept and I’m fairly happy with the execution.  My only gripe is that as soon as I got the flyer and accompanying posters in my hand I realised I should have done the background myself and gotten a rough translation of Eirtakon into Japanese.  Something like ‘Irish anime convention’ or ‘the home of the Irish otaku’, something like that.  Again, I’ll keep it in mind for the next batch of flyers.

There’s a growing number of apps available on the Android Marketplace for Dublin Bus, so I spent a half hour today going through them to size them up and see which is best.  It ties perfectly into my paranoid tendencies, and my slight obsession with Dublin Bus, so what could go wrong?!  I’m not using a scoring metric or anything like that, merely giving an overview and a few plus/minus points of each and letting your good selves make up your minds on them.

I’ve reviewed these on a Samsung Galaxy Europa – hardly top of the range, but probably more reflective of the type of Android phone most people would have.

First thing to note is that while I’ve only reviewed 3, these 3 are the the only up to date ones – other apps are 6+ months old and/or don’t work anymore, but are still on the marketplace, so don’t waste your time with them.  On the plus side, all of them are free, support the Real Time Information (RTI) system and offer the ability to search by route, stop or location!

Official Dublin Bus App
May as well start at the top, right?  Well, not really.  This app is almost twice the size of the other 2 (clocking in at 500kb; hardly huge but why so much bigger?) and is arguably also the most feature rich.  It’s also the most buggy.  Like, really buggy.
+ Very nice design.
+ Ability to save favourite routes.
+ Has a route planner, and offers a newsfeed, timetables and info section.
- Very, very, very slow.  Second pause between every screen, lots of loading.  App is slow to start up.
- It can’t be turned off – there’s no logout or quit button!
- Timetables are pulled from the server and not stored locally, so if you don’t have net access you’re outta luck.
- The info section just links directly into the site, and the site isn’t mobile-friendly.  The Dublin Bus site is horrible as it is, using it on a phone is… frustrating.
- Map function doesn’t work, it only displays a grey background.

Next Bus Dublin
This is by far the best app.  It’s fast, efficient, clean, simple to use and pretty feature-rich, though it lacks the route planner, info page and newsfeed of the official app.
+ Very fast to use; bright & clean design.
+ Ability to save favourite routes, and to name them so as to remind you why you saved it in the first place.
+ Map displays corectly and gives detailed info about each route.
- Has banner ads on top, though there’s a paid version which removes them if you like.
- No timetables.

Dublin Bus Realtime
The most basic of all 3 apps reviewed.  The front page looks almost like Google in its simplicity – a drop-down to search by route, stop or street name.  Beyond that, it’s lacking.
+ Quite fast; clean & compact design.
+ Hooks in very well with the RTI and map systems.
+ The autosuggest when typing in a street name work perfect
- Really bare design, especially on the stop results page showing you when buses are due.  The font is also quite small on that page, which may be an issue for some.
- When in map mode, clicking on a stop bring you straight to it without displaying any info first, and then hitting the back button brings up to the default overview.  Not a bug but frustrating and can be slow if you’re looking for a particular stop, or the stop you are looking for isn’t RTI enabled and you want an alternative in the immediate area.
- No info, no ability to favourite stops, no timetables.

Next Bus Dublin is the clear winner for me, even if it lacks some of the features in the official app.  Depending on your viewpoint, it’s either surprising or not at all that the official app is slow, buggy and oversized, and the poorest of the 3 (unless you’re looking for up to date timetables).  A few tweaks to either of the other 2 apps would bring them to perfect status and I hope the people developing them release updates over the coming months.

A blog is like keeping a pet – if you don’t water it, feed it, take it for walks, keep the code up to date and spay it after about a year, it falls into disrepair.  And probably some other bad stuff happens too, like water contamination.

Anyway!  I did a few upgrades and the like today, which I’ve detailed in fascinating bullet points below:

• Upgraded to WordPress 3.3.  I’ve never upgraded a blog before so I made a few mistakes, notably I managed to delete the main content folder.  Hooray for backups eh?  Once I figured out I needed to change certain file permissions to 777 (temporarily!) things went smoothly and in future it should only take about 10 minutes to complete.
• Installed a few new plugins – WP Socializer to add in a bunch of social networking links, WordPress Mobile Pack to create a quick mobile version of the site, and WP Online Backup for the aforementioned backups.  Having played around with the various alternatives, and not wanting to spend an additional few hours trawling through code doing the work myself, I highly recommend all three.  The mobile plugin has presented some interesting issues and ideas that I’ll go into some other time.
• I activated Akismet, which I had apparently neglected to do upon initial install and thus opening myself to about 2 dozen spam comments a week.  So far I have received no spam comments, though it has only been 2 hours.
• Updated the Stream page so I can talk about myself some more (it’s so easy, and so much fun).
• Added a few links to friends sites.  I’m certain I have more than 3 friends but I can’t think of their sites at the minute.

Today I’ve also been messing about with Dublin Bus apps on the Android platform, I’ll do up some sort of bizarre and paranoid review of them later.