Posted by maca on May 18, 2004
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!
Posted by maca on May 18, 2004
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 [...]
Posted by maca on May 18, 2004
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 [...]
Posted by maca on May 18, 2004
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 [...]