I came across these sweet cigarettes,

in our local Spar shop on Sunday.

Maybe I’m out of touch with children’s sweets but I haven’t seen anything like this,

since my dad ran a sweet shop in Artane (Dublin) in the 1970s (when everybody smoked).

Given the common knowledge that cigarette companies sales are in terminal decline and as a result they are targetting younger and younger demographics, isn’t it somewhat irresponsible to be selling such lifelike cigarette sweets?

(Conspiracy theorists can ponder the fact the Ferton France SA who manufacture these sweets have no website to speak off, they couldn’t possibly have links to big tobacco, could they? Who knows?)

Took a week off to heat up my heels in the town of Iznate up in the foothills between Malaga and Nerja.

My notes from the IT@Cork Web 2.0 Conference are here.

The Radisson Hotel at Little Island in Cork has free WIFI and broadband access available for all guests and visitors. Cool!

Here’s a few snaps from the night before.

15 minutes to get from login screen to billpay. I swear I could count the pixels!

Ha, ha, and there is a message in the message centre, asking me if i notice anything different. No, the service is still the worst on the internet you sad saps!

I just checked my stats today and discovered that my Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0 has knocked Wilma of the top of my “most visited pages” list.

Sorry Wlima, but don’t worry, your still no. 2.0.

You can’t send links to music you’ve found to people or blog links to music for that matter.

Nice idea for directly contacting a VC (BV Capital), call them between 4-6pm CET.

(via Web 2.0 Ireland)

John writes about the GWT Toolkit on the Secantus blog. As a result of his investigations we are sticking with the Yahoo Toolkit for now.