On April 1st the Minuteman Project will start in Arizona, where volunteers from across the US will spend up to one month camped out in the desert armed with night vision goggles, radios and light aircraft, their job – to watch for illegal immigrants coming across the border from Mexico. Don’t be surprised if that’s [...]
The Policing Board of Northern Ireland has approved a new type of plastic bullet for use by the PSNI. Plastic bullets have had extensive use in the North and resulted in quite a number of deaths over the years. The new version of this “non-lethal” weapon is supposed to be less likely to cause serious [...]
Those of you enjoying Firefox as Gaeilge may be interested to hear that Open Office localization is ongoing. Yes, soon this great *free* office suite will be available in Irish. Check out their localization site and if you have the time why not volunteer to help out.
Via Cloudlands by John Breslin I discover (a bit late) that TG4 is now available in Northern Ireland, it just goes from bad to worse there doesn’t it? This following the sale in January of Ros na Rún to WYBE Philadelphia it looks like TG4 is spreading her wings. I haven’t had much opportunity to [...]
Blogging has been brutally slow here for weeks now, work is shaggin busy. But if you follow the wee link to Irishblogs.ie you’ll get a nice collection of Irish weblogs which, unlike this site, are of a standard actually worth visiting. And don’t forget Slugger, always worth a gander, and where you’ll find me most [...]
Via the Gaelport.com mailing list: Inaugural Report of An Coimisinéir Teanga. “The State may not be getting an adequate return for the money it invests in the teaching of Irish according to the inaugural report issued by An Coimisinéir Teanga, Seán Ó Cuirreáin.”
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has broken the church’s silence and spoken out about Dan Brown’s best seller The Da Vinci Code branding it “shameful and unfounded”. Tomorrow the Cardinal will host a seminar on the subject “Story Without History” to rebut the claims of the book. The book itself [roughtly: a story about the Church suppressing [...]
The Irish Language Commissioner, Sean O’Cuirreain has reportedly called for a review of how Irish is taught in primary and secondary schools. His advice is contained in his first annual report as Commissioner. “Reports this morning said Sean O’Cuirreain had advised that such a review was essential if the State was truly committed to promoting [...]
I was at Cebit a few years ago, very interesting experience but over the two days I was there we barely scratched the surface such is the wealth of exhibitors to see. BBC has taken a snapshot of the event and highlighted some of the more interesting products on display this year. Sony Ericsson’s bluetooth [...]
Interesting one here, Apple has won it’s legal battle to force three bloggers to reveal the source who gave them information on unreleased Apple products. The bloggers posted information about Apple’s Asteroid product on the PowerPage, Apple Insider and Think Secret and Apple have been fighting since then to find the leak in their company. [...]