Alexia Blogs

In your final year of college or a recent graduate, have less than 18 months work experience and want to work for Microsoft? The 08 Graduate hiring season has opened for Microsoft Ireland. Microsoft Ireland are looking for creative business and tech heads to come join the team. Imagine working on the XBox team, on Windows Live or on Office.

HR will be accepting applications all the way up until?November 30th, with the hiring process kicking off in January.

Bernie muses on managing attachments.

Damien publishes some interesting Irish Facebook stats.

Robin’s on-the-spot reportage from last week’s big Facebook Debate hosted by BIMA & Segala header, Paul Walsh.

VideoBits:

• Ellen TV meltdown after a doggie don’t.
• How not to perform in an interview - Sigur Ros on NPR. The air literally *dies*.

What a great gig. The Tripod swelled to accomodate music fans of ages eager to hear Kevin Drew’s solo material. Backed by fellow BSS members Brendan Canning and Justin Peroff and abetted by Andrew Kenny (American Analog Set), Bill Priddle (Treble Charge), Sam Goldberg (Uncut) - Kevin Drew wowed the crowds with his new songs, old favourites from BSS and even an anthemic rendition of U2’s ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’.

Here’s a few pics I managed to snag.

L-R: Sam Goldberg, Brendan Canning, Kevin Drew and Bill Priddle’s hand!

Sam Goldberg, Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew.

Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning.

Kevin Drew

Brendan Canning

Many thanks to everyone that came along to the Dublin Tweetup 2 on Thursday evening last. It was great to see everyone in the flesh. We even had a few tag along that weren’t down on the list. The food at Hop House was sublime, and I’m thinking of going back there real soon.

Here’s the name call thread from Jaiku. And some photos from Damian and Elly (oh, and there’s a snap of Elly and Maryrose with Charley Boorman too).

Looking forward to Tweetup 3 already. Early thinking is that we can organise this to fall on a weekend, so that people from outside Dublin can come along too. There’s even whispers of karaoke.

Nice to see Doris Lessing win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Ego-free on receiving the award and a writer confident in her own skills. British media is celebrating her as the first British female to win the award, I say celebrate her metamorphic style.

Damien muses on a new twist to the Pound Shop phenomenon - ‘cept this time it’s in Twenties.

Elly and Maryrose go off to meet Charley Boorman.

MusicBit: Biffy Clyro ‘Drop It’ Acoustic Virgin Instore

Confirmed attendees for this evening:

• Martha
• Eoghan
• Ken
• Maryrose
• Eric
• Clare
• Fergal
• Damian
• Will
• Alexia
• Elly

EDIT: Just adding Elly.

I’m glad to read the latest news that the MacBU team are now in the ZBB (Zero Bug Bounce) phase of the Office 2008 for Mac project.

ZBB is a flat out period where the product is being tested continually where bugs that meet the justification threshold are triaged and fixed. The aim is cut product bugs more than a week old, and reduce the bug churn to zero. It’s also a sure sign that the Mac team are confident that the suite is market-worthy and that RTM is just around the corner.

As I’m considering a MacBook Pro as my next laptop, the news that Office 2008 is nearing RTM is exciting.

Suzy asks some smart questions about attitudes on the Thorpe hysterectomy case.

Another t-shirt joins my to-buy list.

OutTwit, a third-party utility that allows you send Twitter updates from Outlook via Frankarr.

MusicBits: Sunny Day Real Estate ‘Song About an Angel’

Parking outside the IFI. Love the way us common people are flocking for a look-see.

Neat coverage of the cute Nissan Pivo 2. I’m not the biggest environmentalist, but I like any gadget that helps to cut the carbon footprint of daily life. Plus, in a superficial kind of way, it has cute curves that girls like. Look at the success of the Ford Ka!

A Red Link to celebrate surviving the trials of nature. Patrixmc, a good friend of mine, has just come back from climbing Kilimanjaro. He has just started a blog and is posting a blow-by-blow account of his climb, replete with photos.

How to make Skittle Vodka. I kid you not. We’re having a Hallowe’en Party and are going to make it along with scary punch.

MusicBits: Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Ice Cream’ .