Aug/090
Entertainment blog of Alan Owens, Limerick Leader, on SMS
Great to find Alan Owens from The Limerick Leader with a blog on which he features SMS today…
[click on the link to see Alan's blog piece.]
Aug/090
How this blog has affected my personal blog
I’ve posted to my personal writer’s blog for the first time since 8th July about how SMS has affected my personal blog. People don’t realize the amount of time and effort required to keep a blog going. You can read it here.
Aug/090
Couldn’t post yesterday
I had planned to post lots of material yesterday but couldn’t because the Internet was down in Brookfield Hall from early afternoon until this morning at 8.00 when I checked, which was a real “bummer”. Aparently Eircom is the provider used by Brookfield, and Eircom has been having problems with crackers and other nefarious denizens of the murkworld of Viruses and Spam targeting its servers in recent weeks.
I had planned a quiet Sunday, but as always things have a habit of complicating themselves so I didn’t have a quiet Sunday at all, but it wasn’t hectic either.
Aug/092
David Collopy makes a point to Patrick Stack
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David Collopy (right) is the general manager of University Concert Hall.
Patrick Stack is administrator & web master.
I took this photograph last on Friday afternoon when Patrick was exhausted, and David looked full of energy. [You can see the 45 other photographs I took here.]
Advance publicity: One of the highlights of this week on the blog will be an interview with David Collopy. David is one of those key people in the background on whom SMS depends for essential support.
Jul/090
First comment spam
It doesn’t take long for these wasters to spew their crap out, does it?
If I ever meet one of these spammers, they’ll go away with no front teeth and very bloody gums.
These goddamn (and devildamn [just to keep things balanced, mind!]) bottom-feeding scumbags are nothing more than detritus in the greater scheme of things, and are the utter antithesis of what Summer Music on the Shannon is about, id est (put that in you pipes and smoke it, if you dare, spamscum) the nurturing of the innate musical talent that each human child (of whatever age) possesses. That is, to my understanding, the core of Bob Creech’s vision. If I’m wrong I stand, or sit, corrected, but I doubt that I’m wrong.
Jul/093
SMS on the move: the challenge of getting this blog off the ground
How on earth will we build up a following, a readership, an audience?
That’s what I’m wondering.
On the one hand, there’s this extraordinary “event”, SMS, which already has a personality – a rich, textured, tuneful history…
Years of remarkable effort & successes.
SMS has transformed lives.
One of my wife’s friends contacted me from London to say:
“How do you know Bob Creech? My son was at SMS for 5 years. It was wonderful.”
I only began hearing stories about SMS recently. The stories grabbed my imagination & influenced me. The more I hear, the more I feel open-mouthed about what been achieved over the years.
Then there’s this blog.
A new kid on the block. Hardly anyone over 35 in Ireland knows what a blog is. (OK, I exaggerate.) But I bet almost all the kids who come to SMS this year know about Bebo… I bet they use the internet a lot.
So this format, this platform, is tuned into the world of the future.
Hopefully, if we do it well, we’ll have plenty of older people coming here because it’s going to be interesting.
There won’t be all that much stuff about SMS in traditional media (newspapers, TV, radio): there’ll be plenty here.
Jul/090
We’re on our way!
I’ve gone someway towards adapting the blog to the look and feel of the parent (Summer Music on the Shannon) site – tweaking the top and bottom. There’s a fair bit to change yet but I don’t want it to be too similar to the parent site either. As a semi-independent entity it should have its own identity.
Jun/090
Hello world!
I’ve had to un- and re-install Wordpress – no fault of Wordpress – due to Komodo Edit crashing mid-upload and corrupting the functions file of same. Unusually for me I hadn’t backed it up first! Just as well there was only one post on it so nothing much lost only my time (which is very valuable) but that’s cybertech for you on a raining Friday evening!
Jul/090
Day One of SMS – the Opera team gather for first meeting
It’s the first morning of the first day of the 16th season of Summer Music on the Shannon.
On this blog we’ll be keeping you posted on what’s going on, day by day, even hour by hour at times.
You can follow the music as it’s planned, practised and performed.
Admittedly, this is a shoestring production, this blog. It’s not as if we have loads of staff standing-by, gathering material.
Hopefully, we’ll find a way to publicise the blog to the children and faculty members. Ideally, several of them will contribute to the blog, and thereby transform it into an insider’s view of the excitement.
If you would like to contribute to the blog, this is what you do:
(1) You can ‘comment’ by clicking on the comment button below.
(2) Your comment doesn’t appear immediately: we have to ‘moderate’ it. This means that your comment is read by the editor before being put it for all to see. This is to make sure people don’t try to put up libelous stuff.
(3) If you leave a long comment, we’ll give it a page of its own and turn it into a featured article.
(4) If you like you can try sending in a comment and see what happens.
(5) If you’d like to send the blog a message not for publication, you can do that too.