London shooting take two?
A passenger claiming to have a bomb on board an American Airlines plane in Miami has been shot and wounded by a US federal officer, officials have said.
The passenger, who has been arrested, was challenged by the air marshal after he seemed to reach into a bag. He tried to flee and was shot.
The incident is said to have occurred on the jetway between the plane and the airport terminal.
The plane had just arrived from Colombia, and was headed to Orlando.
I never got round to blogging about the excellent blog dinner arranged by Tom Raftery, here in Cork last week.
What struck me was that, as far as I am aware, it took the arrival of a foreign (I use the term politely) blogger in order to get the biggest gathering of Irish bloggers in one room thus far. Why is that? Surely we can get our asses in gear so that Irish blogs are more than just an online community, but one that meets for real on regular occassions. What would it take for Irish bloggers to meet? I suggested free stuff, most especially beer, might motivate Irish bloggers to meet up.
I think there are tangible benefits to meeting in person, it helps consolidate the community, and putting faces to blogs really make me read that persons blog more often. I would also suggest that Irish bloggers start using Skype for instant messaging, it too has tangible benefits. Thus far it is mainly tech bloggers that have taken to meeting up, but with the Irish blog community continuing to grow apace, regular regional or national piss ups really would help cement valuable relationships.
As for last week, all of us had a chance to chat to Robert Scoble, who really is a nice guy, obviously passionate about blogging and technology, and perhaps surprisingly to me, the company he works for. A vast array of topics were covered in the night, and I met many bloggers for the first time. Among the people I chatted to were Damien Mulley, Frank P, James Corbett, Piaras Kelly, Ed Byrne and John Breslin.
All in all a great night, now we just need to get our asses in gear to have more.
Primetime has stirred up something of a hornet’s nest, detailed alleged cartels in the car industry. Doesn’t everyone know this happens already? I wasn’t surprised by anything in the report, as I am sure most people weren’t. Is not a risk of totally free markets that collusion occurs and prices are fixed artificially high?
The Dossing Times notes of me:
Gavins Blog. For some reason this blog always has a nice friendly atmosphere to it and I have no idea why. Always links to interesting articles and founder of www.irishcorruption.com/
Is there any reason why it would not have a nice friendly atmosphere? Hehe.
This was mentioned on Gerry Ryan yesterday morning, where he asked the obvious question – what on earth happens all those people in limbo? Where do they go now. Sinead has also brought the subject up.
Yes the Catholic Church is an easy thing to take the piss out of on occassions such as this. I like the history of the idea though:
…in 1905, pope and now St Pius X made a definitive declaration confirming the existence of limbo. “Children who die without baptism go into limbo, where they do not enjoy God, but they do not suffer either, because having original sin, and only that, they do not deserve paradise, but neither hell nor purgatory.”
However the statement was not made infallibly.
Imagine if it was made infallibly, oh the horror! The Church wouldn’t be able to back track once an idea became untenable.
My handle on Skype is ‘gavinsblog’, if anyone in the Irish blogosphere wants to add me.
I will be going skiing in the desert for Christmas, later in the day I will retire to the beach ;-)
I would also hope to do some podcasting from Dubai over the holidays.
Reaction has been quite positive to the idea of a podcast with a panel discussion, perhaps via Skype. I would probably use Audacity, but have yet to purchase a microphone – where is a good website for buying good quality mics in Ireland?