I was on the Mozilla Development site today (or more specifically ‘Gaeilge‘) and noticed that they have a Scottish theme online. “St. Andrews day today isn’t it?” thought Maca. Anyway under their logo they have the slogan “Spot the sassenach”. “Hmm ‘sassenach’ – interesting word” thought I, “not unlike our own ‘sasanach’ meaning ‘invading imperialist [...]

Lycos have come up with a very clever way of getting back with spammers, by hitting them where it hurts, in their pockets. By downloading and installing a special screensaver “that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail” Lycos hopes to drive up the bandwidth costs of [...]

Interesting look at a few USB gadgets on the market. Not that I don’t already have enough USB devices but I like the look of those disco lights.

“THE Irish language is set to become the 21st official language of the EU”. Just spotted this in the examiner this morning and haven’t yet seen it in other sites. Looks like the EU have accepted Ireland’s request to have Irish as an official working language!

Un-friggin-believable… In Plano, Dallas, USA, a woman cut off her 11 month old baby’s arms. The baby not surprisingly died a while later in hospital. What kind of a twisted fuck would do such a thing!?!?

It’s the run up to christmas, toys are in the shops and the ads are all over the TV. I saw the following product this morning on TV and it made me cringe. See, it’s ok if your dad’s an alcoholic and beats your junkie mom because you too can have a Happy Family. Buy [...]

The BBC have done a decent write-up of Firefox, worth checking out if you’re a Fox Fan.

It’s here and we’ve done it … almost. Firefox 1.0 is officially released. If you don’t have it then go and download it for the system or locale of your choice. Which leads me to my main point. Firefox 1.0 is officially in Irish. While not yet on the official localized download page (linked above) [...]

Thought this was interesting. Since the US election and Bush’s victorification the Canadian immigration website has had record numbers of visitors! “A new record was set within hours of Bush’s acceptance speech as six times more Americans than usual surfed the site Wednesday. The overall number of 179,000 visitors was almost twice the previous one-day [...]

Computers and liquids don’t mix they tell us, and I believe them. I was acting the bollox with my son last night and knocked a full mug of tea over my laptop! And i’m not talking about some nancy little cup, when I have tea I go for the biggest mug I have, indeed the [...]