This sounds like an outstanding initiative to get children excited about and using the Irish language, and something we should probably look at for Hawaiian.
Dave asks how many weblogs there were in 1997, and lists a few.
I had NahenaheNet running well before then, but converted it to a blog-like format mimicing Dave’s “Scripting News” in late-October of 1997. Here are the archive pages from 1997 and 1998. It was Frontier managed, and it remained this way until Userland shipped “Manila”. I got one of the first EditThisPage.com sites on Dec. 4, 1999, and still use it for Nahenahe. I many not be a pioneer, but I know one when I see one.
USB Pen Drives Eat Files.
My favorite Mac bigot, er, evangelist, Scott Waters goes on one of his patented rants about those USB pen drives, memory sticks or whatever you want to call them, and how Mac users can minimize possible problems. Our campus’ academic computing specialist recently advised our faculty and staff on their use as well. I don’t use one myself, opting to use my iDisk or my own OS X server, but I have witnessed the death of our camera’s flash card, along with the pics that it contained.
Baby Name Wizard.
This is one of the coolest front ends to a database I’ve ever seen. I can think of some cool applications for our Hawaiian digital library project, Ulukau.
Inventor preserves self to witness immortality.
I remember Ray Kurzweil for his work on a machine that could read any text to the blind and for the musical instrument manufacturer that bears his name. He thinks that human immortality via technology will be a reality within 20 years, and is doing his best to assure that he lives long to see it.
Irish language has been loser in North-South clash.
There is some interesting conversation on Slugger regarding the state of the Irish language, and some suggest that it would benefit from a pairing with programs championing Ulster-Scots, another minority language of the country. It seems that advocates of the two language often find themselves in competition with each other as opposed to being support of each other in the face of English language homogeny.
Bad Baby Day?
Jeeze, Louise. First there was a story about a newborn child being tossed out of a moving car. Later it turns out that the woman who claimed that she witnessed the event was the mother, and she made the story up to keep her family from finding out she was pregnant. Next, a woman kills an female attacker who apparently was trying to steal her unborn child. What next?
Christopher Lloyd Plays Lessig on West Wing.
This begs the question… who would play Dave Winer? I’d vote for Richard Karn, “Al Borland” on TV’s “Home Improvement.” Give him a pair of glasses and a bit of grey in the beard, and voila!
Useless and worthless.
This article is filled with so many inaccuracies and generalizations it’s hard to pick a place to begin. First and foremost, the Hawaiian language is not extinct. It never was outlawed, however, its use as a medium of education was. The word “Hawai’i” does not mean “homeland.” The author informs us that he has “studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents” and has written two unpublished two books. Hopefully they are better researched than this article.
To quote Elvis Costello…
“Was it a millionaire who said ‘imagine no possessions’?”