I’m looking forward to the new flick The Day After Tormorrow, i’m into those cool special effect disaster leave-your-brain-outside flicks. Should be good. Speaking of flicks, just saw Kill Bill Vol 1, very cool film. If you are a Tarantino fan it is a must see, if you are not go see it anyway. Lucy [...]
I just heard of the death of a man by the name of Sean Kearney. I don’t know much about him or his politics other than he was an Irish speaker and enthusiast, which prompted this posting. He has an interesting article about Irish books in Fortnight magazine [Jan '04], worth checking out.
Apple users have been updating their systems to plug a hole in the Safari browser which “could allow malicious code to be run on a machine without a user’s permission”, but it’s not enough according Secunia director and CEO Niels Henrik Rasmussen (via Macworld).
Tim Berners Lee has spoken out against the proposed TLD’s. Tim reckons “the creation of STLDs to promote specific industries is tantamount to carving up the Web into pieces of commercial real estate”. What difference does it make really?
There’s much more to Aljazeera than just reporting on Iraq or getting inside info on the Al Queda. Their culture section features an article on a Jobline poll which claims that us Irish are the Europeans most likely to fall asleep at work!
Continuing on the Irish language theme, Foras na Gaeilge have a new website currently under construction. Looks good so far (although it’s never professional to have a site showing “under construction”). Gaeilge na Seachtaine is a site I haven’t seen before, simple site offering some basic phrases and a good grammar section. Here’s an interesting [...]
It pleases me to see so much interest in the Irish language around the world. In particular Irish is doing well in the US, the San Francisco Bay Area have just announced their latest Irish Language Immersion Weekend for 2004. Another site I was looking at earlier today is the website of Conradh na Gaeilge [...]
Harry McCracken has some good things to say about Google’s GMail service. Google’s latest innovation has been much criticised since it’s release, as I pointed out in previous posts, but Harry comments that the service is “well-designed” and the ads seem “pretty innocuous”, “easy to ignore”. The service is currently in Beta but if you [...]
The BBC takes a brief look at the career of Michael Moore, documentary/film maker and author. If you haven’t seen “Bowling For Columbine” then rent it ASAP, it’s an excellent film! Looking forward to seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 [Michael's site], Michael’s latest film which the White House tried to block, and a film which has just [...]
It seems Mr.Kill Bill himself, Quentin Tarantino, is interested in directing a James Bond flick. Quentin reckons he’d like to do “Casino Royale”, he’s even spoken to our own Pierce brosnan about it who seemingly liked the idea. Would be worth watching anyway, not sure if the producers would go for it though.