Social networking #101, Day 1

Waelcome to the 21st century.

You've finally found your way on to Facebook and maybe even LinkedIn too, but in your rush to have as many connections as possible, please bear these 3 really, really simple rules in mind:


1. Just because we once worked together, doesn't mean we are friends. Now we might have actually had a chat in the cafeteria, or I might have even told you they were nice shoes, but honestly that doesn't make us buddies, so don't try to befriend me on Facebook. I don't want to see pictures of your cats, bicycles or get asked to buy you a pig for your farm.

2. We might have spent the night shooting tequila in a bar in Kathmandu and in a moment of weakness I might have befriended you on Facebook, but please don't try and become a connection on LinkedIn. I don't even know what an "Oyster Floater" does, nor could I comment on your abilities in said profession.

3. If we had a business relationship AND by some fantastic coincidence we spent a fair amount of our free time, socializing together. Then yes you may tick both boxes and collect $200.

If you're still having problems with the rules please ask for assistance.

$1000

How far can you travel on $1000
15 days in Japan or
71 days in India
Hmm... Let me think about that one.

Progress

I'm actually starting to believe that my little apartment in Brazil might actually become a reality one day.

Here's the latest construction pic:

A man after my own heart

A chap in New York who has distilled his life down to a laptop, iPad, Kindle, clothes and bedding.

Cult of Less Blog — Is it possible to own nothing?

But honestly why the iPad & Kindle??

On a similar note, an interesting article in Time about the so called "100 Thing Challenge". An attempt by people to live with 100 items or less.

I'm doing pretty well on 55 (underwear counts 1 though!)

Guestblogging

Have just been asked to write a blog entry for OneTravel, so quite chuffed about that.

Article about my current favourite destination - Colombia, should be published soon.

TagGuru

Well, while practising for my motorcycle test and generally avoiding too many bars, I have created TagGuru.

An all seeing application for making sure your music collection is in shape!



Probably only of interest to people who are fairly anal about having their music collection in order, but I guess that is 10% of the population :)

Republicans block oil spill liability bill

Quite unbelievable in light of the catastrophe unfolding in the gulf of Mexico that the Republicans have blocked a bill to increase oil spill liability from 75 million to 10 billion.

So rather than get a multi trillion dollar business like BP to pay for the damages it has caused, the US tax payer is left to foot the bill. Just another case of shameful, cowardly politicians sucking up to big business and not actually serving the best interests of the people that voted them into office.

Stonehenge

Some pictures from my recent motorbike trip to Stonehenge

Ryanair - A golden oldie

Chamonix

Some pictures from Chamonix on Flickr

Big changes coming to Dublin Bus

Quite amusing to see that there are some big changes coming to Dublin Bus. Amongst some of the changes "A real-time passenger information service will also be rolled-out later this year". Quite unbelievable to see something which has been common place in Europe since the late 90s being rolled out OVER A DECADE later in Dublin.