Archive for February, 2009

A series of unfortunate events.. (and a new website!)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Fanfare greeted the arrival in Dublin last night of Obama’s online mogul, Joe Rospars. He trades under BlueStateDigital and they’re a pretty serious outfit.. (If you don’t immediately get the blue state thing just go listen to Obama’s convention 04 speech)..
Obama is credited with an unprecedented online campaign
Joe was in town to announce a new [...]

Try and find a little happiness..

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

There’s a lot of doom and gloom out there. Much of it is real My last post talked about the apocalypse.

So I’ve decided to look for bright spots today! Try find some positives somewhere. Came up with the following:
Cost of living is down. Whilst income levels are frozen at best or heading [...]

Small Digital World

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Just got this mail earlier .. Woo hoo!
Hi, lawlessj (lawlessj).
Barack Obama (BarackObama) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out Barack Obama’s profile here:
http://twitter.com/BarackObama
Best,
Twitter
Course it’s open to yall not just himself ; http://twitter.com/lawlessj

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Can the centre hold?

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

It’s pretty apocalyptic out there. The political and economic storm clouds are gathering and darkening. And all the signs are that worse is to come.

In the middle of all this we have an opinion poll. FF are on 22% – a historic low. Like most members I’m pretty disappointed by this but not hugely surprised. [...]

Residents win battle for green space (sort of)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Just a quick update on what happened re the green space (at Sallins Pier/Sallins Wharf). The residents mounted quite a battle (a copy our petition is here) and we turned it around from majority of the area committee (4 to 1) ready to back residential zoning at start of the week to majority on the [...]

2009 grants schemes now open

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Grants schemes are available to many different local groups and organisations, ranging from residents committees to social supports, from environmental initatives to local festivals. The deadline for 2009 applications is 18th March and I would encourage anyone involved to start applying now. I produce below full information courtesy of Kildare and Naas Town councils:
Groups in [...]