a dog waiting in a shop door on iso roobertinkatu. its leash in its mouth, waiting to be taken for a walk.

ive been using jaiku for about 15 months now, from the early beta days in julyish last year when it crashed my (albeit non supported) 3230 and then again in november after i got a bit bored of twitter. ive had it running almost non stop on my phone since february of this year and the latest client makes it a joy to use.

basically jaiku is something that integrates your phones address book with a service that allows you to talk to your friends. i tried to log into the site a little while ago and it was down for some reason, then i check the site again only to find that they have been bought by google!. fantastically brilliant news. wondering how it ties in with all the gphone talk as of late.

there was a fascinating show on rte radio 1 over the last few years called “what if…” that dealt with what might have happened in irish history if something didnt happen – like if trams werent taken off the streets of dublin in the late 1950s, “if there was no miserable irish childhood”, if the irish electoral system was different, if cricket was irelands national game and so on.

the latest series is available via podcast with the preceeding series available as streaming audio.

“what if the trams were kept”: real audio link

anna emilia has launched her new site. go and look and then go “ooohh” and “aaah” cos its all so nice.

apart from “it was pretty much perfect” i dont know how to put “heima” into words. more pictures here.