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● Via Damien: As heard first via various twitterings, C|Net’s News.com are now reporting that Microsoft have bid $44.6 billion for Yahoo!. Will be interesting if the deal goes through – although, as ChinaView asks – how much will a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage change Cyberspace?…


● Bock the Robber wasn’t impressed by the Irish rugby teams performance (and, in fairness… who was?) – but the picture he’s using is from the front page of the Irish Times – taken at the Ireland Vs Italy Womens Six Nations match – where Ireland won by a much more impressive score of 19 – 0. Leave it to the ladies, eh?
● Primal Sneeze isn’t a Ray D’Arcy fan, (they never really liked him on the boards either) … and he seems to think that D’Arcy’s interview with me back in August about ShiteDrivers.com was the final straw in the Today FM DJ’s decline. Frankly, I do enjoy D’Arcy’s show – but it’s not as good as it used to be, and I don’t really think he deserves to win Best Irish DJ (it would be his 4th year running) at the Meteor Awards this year.
● Speaking of the Meteors, you can now vote for the 2FM Hope for 2008 award – my recommendation is Owen Brady. We featured him on the show recently.
Oh and speaking of my show, we had the Top Ten Movie Soundtracks on Friday, and we talked (briefly) about the new Rambo movie (which Damien didn’t like) and the incredible body count in it compared to the previous 3 films!
● OH!… and speaking of ShiteDrivers.com (mentioned it when talking about D’Arcy above, .. remember?) – the site has been “longlisted” for four awards in the Irish Blog Awards which take place in Dublin on March 1st. I’ll be there!
● Finally… I’ve read two of these books cover to cover and I want more. Thankfully there’s OverheardInDublin.com… ahhhh… those Dubs, eh? I particularly like this one:

Was listning to 2fm a few weeks ago in the afternoon and a female dj(dont know her name) was doing a request show,a mother was on playing a request for one of her kids that was sick with the flu and she was saying that she was hoping that none of the other kids would pick up the same illness,”touch wood” the dj replies “dont worry I have my 2 hands firmly on wood as we speak”..

(extra: see also it’s sort-of “bigger” brother, OverheardInIreland.ie – I still prefer OverheardInDublin, to be honest…)