Here’s an interesting case of a Northern Ireland family being denied housing in the Connemara gaelteacht, not because they can’t speak Irish, but apparently because they don’t speak it well enough. Slugger O’Toole carries some interesting discussion on the topic.
I need one of these.
Very desperately.
Call for more imaginative Irish language approach.
The principal of Rice College, Westport, Mr Frank McCarrick, says that a progressive and imaginative approach to the presentation and teaching of the Irish language in secondary schools by the Department of Education could help address the decline in the subject. Without it, he believes the number of students studying it would continue to fall.
Messing with telemarketers.
Our home is on the Do Not Call list, but that doesn’t seem to stop people with funny accents from calling our home during dinner trying to get us to refinance our home. Caller: Mr. Donaghy, can I ask what your current mortgage rate is? Me: I’d rather not tell you, and I’m not interested in refinancing. Caller: But, Mr. Donaghy, did you know… Me (yelling to my daughter): Malia!, didn’t I tell you not to let the dog play with matches and gasoline! He set himself on fire again! (returning to call). Sorry buddy, I have to go and…
My good deed for the day.
I spent some time with Scott on iChat trying to troubleshoot a problem with his copy of Radio Userland. All of his permalinks and picture links were broken, and the domain name of his site appeared twice in the URL, the second time it appeared as the root directory. I suspected it was a folder name problem and we found it. You need to be sure to use “http://” in the URL field in the FTP Option page (this link will only work if you have RU and it is running). Otherwise Radio interprets all of the URLs as relative,…
Scoble wants to hear some Microsoft insults, and gets a few.
I can’t claim authorship of either of these, but they are among my favorites: VISTA = Virus Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware Windows is the operating system equivalent of the Roach Motel – bugs check in but they never check out. Glad to help, Robert
Why would I want my tunes interrupted by a phone call?
Apple Computer, in partnership with Motorola introduced the iTunes Phone, a music-playing phone. It comes loaded with iTunes software and can hold about 100 songs, and songs can be transferred from PC or Macintosh computers via a USB cable. Notice the print that is not only fine but grey as well – 2 year contract required. I’m not even remotely tempted.
Cornish language revival.. in Australia?
Lilian James AOM has called on the Cornish Language Board to consider how students of the Cornish language living overseas can be helped to take exams in the language.
MSNBC knows it all, I guess.
I’ve been watching MSNBC’s coverage of the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. After about 15 minutes it occurred to me – their reporters were simply interviewing each other on this development. There were no statements from anyone in the government, attorneys, fellow justices. Nada. They showed the same video clip of Rehnquist in his gown seven or eiight times and every one of the reporters parroted the same line regarding the ability of the president to appoint someone other than one of the existing justices as Chief Justice, or appoint one of the current justices and then…
W steps on his unit… again.
Whether he does nothing or jumps in with both feet, the leader of the free world can’t help but mess things up. Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to hurricane Katrina refugees in sat immobile Friday afternoon as all air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orlean. Arrangements had been made to airlift food by helicopter, and the food sat in trucks because helicopters were not permitted to fly until the president left. The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday…