Raiméis

I’m delighted to be one of the first to announce the release of a new Irish language search engine, Aimsigh.com. What makes this search engine so special is that it only indexes Irish language documents. It also includes some advanced features special to the language such as ignoring mutations and dealing with non-standard spellings.
The full archives of lists Gaeilge-A, Gaelic-L, and Seanchas-L have also been properly indexed in a standard encoding, which Google have failed to do, which makes it more accurate to search those lists. More details about the features can be found on the Aimsigh website.
Pass on the word to those you think might be interested and if you get the chance to try out the engine the site owner, Kevin Scannell, would value your feedback.

The .eu top level domain is now available. Sacre-bl.eu !

My sense of humour can be a bit odd at times, anyway when I saw this it raised a bit of a chuckle. I was reading the news about the bank employee accused of the Northern bank robbery when I spotted the ad on the right, the ultimate getaway vehicle [image 65kb]. I bet he wished he had that now.

But did they go far enough?
Following a complaint by journalist John Seigenthaler over false allegations that he was somehow involved in the Kennedy assassinations Wikipedia have decided to tighten its rules. They now require users to register before posting new articles. However people can still edit existing articles without registering which is totally stupid really.
Wikipedia is a fantastic resource but when it comes to certain subjects it becomes useless because it’s so easily abused by every malicious Joe with an agenda, as highlighted by the lads on Slugger. Back to the drawing board Vicipéid.

I suppose I should mention that today is Finnish Independence Day (Itsenäisyyspäivää). They’re fairly proud of their independence these Finns. They had a parade in the city centre with all the usual flag flying, military vehicles and a fly-over of some Air Force aircraft. I would have taken some pictures only I was in bed trying to get over a wicked hangover. We’d bit of a session last night ya see.
(Buíochas le Panu.)

I don’t know what I’ve done to Firefox but it’s using a lot RAM at the moment. Anybody else have similar problems? I’ve heard that some Mac users are having problems also but I think that’s because of an existing bug. I’ll have to do a bit of investigating.

I’ve decided to invest in a digital camera, hopefully this weekend, but I’m absolutely clueless on what to look for. Anyone got any recommendations? I have only three requirements, it must be compact not SLR, it needs to be good quality (4-5m px?) and it must be cheap! Any ideas?

  
Any closer and this guy’d have a nice dented bonnet before the end of the day. This usually happens when the temperature rises a bit after a large snowfall, the whole volume of snow slides down the roof. I can just hear the thuds now as the snow falls.
This can actually be dangerous enough at times. Depending on how the temperature has been changing the snow might be quite hard and if it’s falling off a 3-4 story building in the centre of the city … well lets just say, you wouldn’t want to be underneath. I can’t find any current stats on injuries but a number of people are killed each year by falling snow in Finland, mainly elderly people. But as in the linked story, if a ten-kilo ice block falls on your head it doesn’t matter what age you are.

Edit: Uploaded another pic. I’m just in a winter snappy mood this week.

I was just checking my site stats, checking where youze all are coming from and just noticed that someone found Raiméis by searching for “ira bollox” on Doogle. Doogle adds an extra word when you do a search and the actual keywords which give me a #1 placing are “ira bollox Offaly”. I guess I should be offended, I don’t want someone thinking I am from Offaly.

Just took a couple of quick snaps out my office/cubicle/corner window. Feckin winter.
Edit: Which reminds me, the macamobile needs new winter tyres.