Category Archives: Seafóid

Bin Ladin wants truce?

A tape broadcast by Arab networks claims to be the bauld Osama asking for a truce with European countries that do not attack Muslims. No truce with the US though! It’s quite an interesting development and not something we’d really have expected. Channel News Asia cover the story, as do Reuters, lots more via Google.

Keaneo back in the green

Great news, can’t believe I missed it yesterday. The FAI Confirmed that Roy Keane is to return (BBC) to the Irish team after famously quitting during the World Cup 2 years ago! Keane’s return is welcome, we start the WC campaign in Setpember at home to Cyprus!

Disaster for Free Software?

Just browsing the web and dropped by the Gimp website and discovered their internet protest. To quote: “Most software will become illegal to use in Europe if this dangerous directive is adopted without proper amending.” “The Commission and the Council of Ministers are covertly pushing for unlimited patentability of software, heavily lobbied by multinationals and [...]

Teach nua againn

Tá teach nua againn anois … bhuel is árasán é. 80m2, dhá sheomraí leapa, dhá sheomraí teaghaigh, dhá ‘jacks’ 7 balcóin (3h+tupak+p, 1./5 kerros – Suomeksi). Rachaidh muid a chónaí an tseachtain seo chugainn. Tá sé ar fheabhas!

PS2 HDD Add-on

There is now a 40GB hard drive add-on for Sony’s PS2. Now that is a welcome add-on, for those of you who use the PS2 game consoles and are sick of the absolute-day-light-robbery-rip-off prices of memory cards. €40 (8mb) vs €82 ($100)(40gb). You do the math!

Propaganda Pix

Ok, i’m a real cynic, I just really dislike kids being used for propaganda.

X marks the prize

This is a damn interesting competition and worth keeping an eye on. The X-Prize is a competition to see who will be the first to launch a 3-person manned craft to the edge of space – twice within two weeks. Scaled Composites’ SpaceShipOne just had her 2nd test flight in Mojave cúpla lá ó shin [...]

Trimming Longhorn

To be able to get Longhorn to the customers on time it looks like Microsoft has to trim some features from their latest OS. “Microsoft is not cutting back on its vision … Instead the company is clipping features and functionality, without taking away the core of the improvements it promised, so it can deliver [...]

English langige

I was browsing a web forum, in particular one thread on the complexity of the english language when some member posted the following: “We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural [...]

Quality Politics 2 – An Alternative Look at NI Politics Part 2

[revised & updated] Part 2 of our design critique of NI Political Party websites we take another look at the same set of websites to see if they have actually made any improvements. The majourity of the sites made no significant changes.