Alan O’Flaherty has put together a great website called “What would God say” in aid of The Childrens Sunshine Home, its a really simple idea and I do wish Alan the best of luck with it, click here to let Alan explain himself where the idea stemmed from.

Video streaming to the internet from your mobile telephone through 3G or WiFi, this cant be real, but yes the guys at Qik have this sorted. It has been around for quite some time now, but I decided to give it a shot towards the end of last week and it works a dream.

On the photography front I was hit with this link from Debz of her daughter after a bit of an incident, Absolute class!

So I am proud to announce the first installment of “Opening the shutter”

So what have I found this week –

Top of the list goes to Damien Mulley who has proudly announced the first Irish Web Awards on October 11th, hopefully I may be playing a small role in helping him out again with this one, more on that as it happens.

The second thing that caught my Shutter was Nick (DownsDad) from Our Jacob. I know Nick quite well and was appalled with what he was writing about in the last few posts he put up. They all relate to the Ben Stiller movie Tropic Thunder
and the fact on how the script, co written by Stiller, uses the word retard or retarded quite a bit throughout. In Nicks words he wonders had..

it never occurred to him that he was training a bazooka on an incredibly large gathering of relatively helpless people? I can’t believe that. He’s a funny guy, he plays to his strengths, he’s not afraid to be unpopular, but I cannot remember him ever going out of his way to deliberately target or hurt people who are already at several disadvantages: physically; mentally; within society at large; financially, and on and on.

Today it hit the airwaves on Newstalk 106, I missed the show but I plan on listening to the podcast when I get home.

According to SiliconRepublic it seems our friends at Intel plan to speed things up a bit more with a serious push to get USB 3.0 out, which will be 10 times quicker then USB 2 which we are so used too, bring it on.

In times of recession when suppliers should be hungry for custom this appears from Alexia and her really bad treatment last Saturday while attempting to buy an elusive 3G iPhone (which were in the store) but been unable to, due to a system malfunction that stopped sales for any bill pay custom and it lasted all day, how many customers did O2 manage to lose to Vodafone/Meteor/3 that day?

Update : Sources tell me that this still did not deter Alexia from purchasing one today!

And I suppose if I have to keep the idea of a photoblog going I should link to another photoblog so this week I am linking to Kari Pullinen from My Left Eye and a photo that was put up yesterday but taken last year in Gori, which obviously everyone knows is under serious attack from the Russians. Amazing photo compared to the pictures we see in the media these days.

And so ends my first “Opening the Shutter” I do hope you may have found something you may also have enjoyed.