Yep, it’s been slow. I’ve just been completely lazy in the past week or so. And work, where I usually manage to blog at least once per day, has been damn busy. It’s hard to believe it’s May already (this would have been more appropriate last week, when I intended to post it, but anyway…). [...]
… and in particular the Irish translation of … did you notice that Firefox has passed the 50 million user mark? Plus that’s 50 million of only Windows, Mac OSX and the generic Linux i686 install. According to ‘someone in the know’ if you were to add, for example, optimised G4 OSX builds, BeOS installations, [...]
The Irish language has often been compared with Welsh. While Welsh is still a threatened language it’s in way better shape than Irish, for quite many reasons, too many to go into tonight. One thing I noticed during my tiny involvement with the Irish localization of Firefox was just how active the Welsh folk are [...]
Yes you read right, a 23 year old Norwegian woman has been sentenced to 9 months in jail for raping a man. Seemingly he fell asleep on the couch in the woman’s apartment but woke up a short time later to find the woman giving him oral sex, which constitutes rape in Norway. “The man [...]
You really know you’re an absolute lazy basket when it pains you to simply click on a flippin browser tab. I made the switch yesterday from one browser tab extension (tabbrowser preferences) to another (tab mix) which has some pretty cool new functions but I lost the tab-switching-on-mouseover functionality so now I have to actually [...]
We’ve been stuck in a time warp with IE6 for yonks, the only updates have been to fix a few of the gazillion fucking security holes in the web browser-slash-windows browser. IE7 will probably be released as part of Longhorn, M$’s latest attempt at a secure stable OS, and as well as better security (security-focused [...]
Crap, I forgot this was on yesterday! Longford Town did the business again last night with a 1-0 home victory against Glentoran, while Shels took the points in their away game to Portadown. That’s revenge so for Longford who lost their opening cup game 2-1 away to Glentoran in March. Next up for Longford is [...]
…eventually. Been on holidays all last week, except Monday when I had to go to Estonia on business. I’ve also been fucked with the flu for the past week … which makes my first post of the week somewhat relevant- via Balrog I found this “death test” which tries to estimate when you will die, [...]
Just noticed that Ireland finally has some coverage in Google Maps. Ok, it’s very limited at this stage and there is no satellite coverage but it’s still good to see us on the map, so to speak. Hopefully they’ll add some more detail, in the mean time i’ll have a play with it and see [...]
Well, as you know, and i’ve reminded you here, GAA congress were meeting today, the main issue under discussion was of course Rule 42. The members voted 165 to 153 in favour of holding a secret ballot which I would have thought was a bad idea. Anyway the motion was passed 227 to 93, rule [...]