Jackson Verdict!
Big hullabaloo on BBC World now, everybody watching & waiting in anticipation for the verdict in the Jackson trial. Should be any minute now… NOT GUILTY of all charges!
Big hullabaloo on BBC World now, everybody watching & waiting in anticipation for the verdict in the Jackson trial. Should be any minute now… NOT GUILTY of all charges!
What some people have campaigned hard for has finally come true, the EU have today made Irish an official working language of the EU with effect from 2007.
Below is a press release from Dháithí Mac Cárthaigh, Chonradh na Gaeilgereceived via Gaeilge-B…
Edit: Slugger readers have their say … some of the usual suspects with their usual ‘waste of money’ comments.
Edit2: Via Slugger I found ‘Back Seat Drivers’ who gives his view on ths issue as well as some useful infomation. Even though Irish is now a working language we have gone for the ‘slimmed down’ version (like the Maltese) which will cost €3.5million pa. Translation costs for other language cost up to €46 million. Also, in Spain Catalan, Basque and Galician have received improved status:
“Under the agreement, citizens writing to the EU institutions will receive a reply in their own language as well as in Spanish, and EU legislation will be translated into these languages, although it will not have legal value in this version.”
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Shocking news (sorry, pathetic I know but I couldn’t resist), an all-island electricity market is on the way.
The reason why some women have problems reaching orgasm might be down to their genes??? Lads, lads, lads, if you’re not up to the task just admit it!
I just signed up for a free online course with the HP Learning Center. I’ve no idea if the classes are good or not, they could be absolute shite, but they are free and definitly better than nuthin. I signed up for the ‘Building web applications with PHP and MySQL‘ course. I’ve done *some* PHP/MySQL on my own, learning from a book and some online tuts but I haven’t even opened the book in over 6 months so this course might drag me back into the subject, and help me finish off a ‘control panel’ application I started working on long ago. Anyone every tried these courses?
Update: Ok, I just signed up for another course Introduction to XML.
Have you heard about the shite at the game with Israel on Saturday? You’ll find some shocking information on the soccer boards. Disgraceful scenes of Palestine flag waving, Nazi salutes etc. It’s not 100% clear to me who was the real cause, the IPSC (pro-Palestinian group) or ROI fans but these scenes were downright disgusting. There is no room for this sort of shit in Irish football.
Also, Israeli keeper Dudu Awate was ‘attacked’ in the Burlington, he had a bucket of ice thrown over him. I can understand peoples anger after his onfield antics but this is unacceptable…
You heard about the video showing Serb soldiers executing Bosnian Muslims? I saw this video yesterday, it’s very disturbing. I won’t post the link but if you are like me and have a morbid sense of curiousity mail me and i’ll point you in the right direction. Btw the video on the BBC website appears to be an edited version.
“Police in Austria said today they discovered the bodies of several newborn children in the freezer of an apartment building in the south of the country” … I can’t read anymore.
Flippin excellent. Via Donncha’s blog Holy Shmoly I found this cool plugin for Gimp which removes digital camera noise. I suppose I could have found it if I spent more time around some of the Gimp sites but I rarely use Gimp anyway, it drives me nuts, never does what i want it to do. Anyway today Donncha gets the credit.
One thing I am cursed with is the lack of a proper digital camera. I have a 35mm AF Minolta SLR which I rarely use so instead I try to take most pics with my camera phone, a Nokia 7600 (opens new window). It is actually surprisingly good … if the light is good, when the light is bad you can forget about taking pics. Pics are only 600px*480px but overall it suits me as it’s more mobile (excuse the pun) than the SLR and does what I need it to (take quick snaps of the young fella etc).
Back to the flippin noise, in lower light this is a big problem for me … hense my delight at finding this Gimp plugin which I hope will clean up some of my pics. I haven’t tested it yet but will this weekend and if the results are good will post them here.
p.s. anyone want to buy a Minolta SLR? Think I need to buy a proper digi-cam.
This is why I enjoy Twenty Major so much, If I could, or how about his take on the foiled armed robbery in Dublin the other day in Oh, good shot, Sir, or simply short posts on customs. Add this lad to your bookmarks, and when you’re feeling a little frustrated (like I often do at work) then pay this funny cunt a visit, and you’ll cheer the fuck up in no fucking time. Oh yeah, the drawback is the you’ll have the mouth of a hoor if you spend too much time there… you cunt :crazy: