Ireland

Test post from iPad.

This post was written with BlogPress and it's my first attempt to write on the blog from the iPad. The official WordPress app is really poor functionality.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all readers of the blog!

I am yesterday in County Clare (more precisely in Doolin) and hence the 3G signal is not present.

Take account of the post and the publication of pictures tomorrow after reaching the Connemara.

He takes the suitcase of the closet, you print the sheets for check-in and you write the last blog post before departure. Yeah it sounds a lot like the holiday 2.0.

By this time tomorrow I will be in Dingle and I am sure I will be sorry for having already spent a day in Ireland.

See you soon!

In the end it always gives to the heart. The crisis was not enough, and everything else. Were not enough the previous twenty-one times. At the end of this year back in Ireland. Only a few days ... but what really matters is to renew and revive the relationship.

From August 6 to 13. Flight to Shannon directly (for the first time) and I will stop only on the west coast of Dingle, Doolin, Clifden, even Doolin and then back home.

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August is always best to book B & B and that's what I did. To hear the accent and the voice of my old acquaintances sparked a terrible nostalgiaa. Maybe I'll never know until the end or maybe each of us feel really at home in one place in the world ... mine is Ireland.

• 06/08/2009 - Shannon Airport -> Dingle ( Duinin House )
• 07/08/2009 - Dingle ( Duinin House )
• 08/08/2009 - Dingle -> Doolin ( Trildoon House )
• 09/08/2009 - Doolin ( Trildoon House )
• 10/08/2009 - Doolin -> Clifden ( Ardmore House )
• 11/08/2009 - Clifden ( Ardmore House )
• 12/08/2009 - Clifden -> Doolin ( Trildoon House )
• 13/08/2009 - Doolin -> Shannon Airport

Test post from iPhone.

At the end there are also fallen and I let myself be groped by malafonino. The client for WordPress does not look bad but feels so much the lack of good old keyboard blackberry

This year I do not think of going to Ireland. If I were seduced by the umpteenth trip I think this will be my means of updating the blog.

Thanks to the reporting of a friend I invite you to watch some moments taken from the week that has seen U2 regular guests on the David Letterman Show.

The 360 ​​° tour is the band's first tour of stadiums from the Vertigo Tour 05/06, the tour follows the publication of the critically latest album 'No Line On The Horizon', the band's twelfth recording work, already the number 1 on the charts in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Japan and Czech Republic

The U2 360 ° Tour will visit 14 cities across Europe, including Milan (San Siro) - where Bono and Co. will perform July 7 - Gothenburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Nice, Dublin, Chorzow, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, London, Sheffield and Glasgow before finishing at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on August 22. The European tour will be followed by dates in North America, the first of which will be September 12, 2009 at Soldier Field in Chicago.

Willie Williams, U2 show producer for the past several years, he worked again with architect Mark Fisher (ZooTV, PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo) to create an innovative 360 ​​° design which offers the audience a perfect view. The 360 ​​° tour also marks the first tour of stadiums with such a unique and original structure (which can be viewed at U2.com).

In keeping with their tradition, U2 will welcome on stage at different backing band, including Glasvegas, Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol and Black Eyed Peas (other artists will be announced).

The date:
July 7th Milan, San Siro Stadium

Where to book:
http://www.ticketone.it/

The design of the new stage, 360 degrees, which will host performances by U2 on this tour.

How can you ignore Facebook? From today a small extension of the blog is also present on the world's most popular social networks.

Ireland on facebook

Took office in Ireland is a very bad climate for P2P world, even the music industry lobbyists, who have reported great success when one of the largest Irish ISP Eircom, has given up fighting in court and agreed to disconnect their customers, guilty of violation of copyright, now they want the ISP block all file-sharing sites starting with the Pirate Bay.

The funny thing is that at least in the case of the Italian block Pirate Bay, ISPs had to obey an order of the Finance Police, even if the court of review has decided to cancel the block, but there is no provision in Ireland lawsuit against Pirate Bay. It is, in fact, of private agreements between ISPs and the music industry and the politicians, like Pontius Pilate, wash their hands, not wanting to be involved in the story that would put against public opinion.

So the situation is that Eircom will block any site which will be reported dall'Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) and will accept any blacklisted at the same time music lobbies have given notice to the other ISPs within seven days to accept the same deal, otherwise they will be mentioned court. Of course the ISPs do not agree and seek protection. You do not really know who will be able to contact, since as said that the political forces are conspicuous by their absence, while virtually every form of freedom is eliminated from the internet.

And if the site has a lot of material free from the constraints imposed by the copyright will be blocked too, just an infringement notice in relation to the site. This will also say that in Ireland no artist can expose its content using peer-to-peer technology as likely then that the site is disconnected, thereby it destroys any possibility for an artist to make known his deeds outside the official channels.

I really hope that public opinion in Ireland react to these charges. If Eircom, in fact, might begin to see many of its users dissolve the contract and move to other ISPs that have not accepted the dictates of IRM, ie if all this will bring a huge economic damage, we must see whether it will continue to blindly obey taxation of music lobbies.