At first when John pointed me at this report, I thought, “I speak Irish, but how many of my friends do? How many times do people really do business as Gaeilge?”
That’s not the point however. Many Irish people are willing to let our language die but with it will go a rich heritage (and I’m talking of more than Peig!) and culture.
There’s a new generation growing up who’ve gone through the Gael Scoileanna and have a sound understanding of the Irish language. It’s a slow process but schooling is much better these days, and hopefully today’s parents will get over the mental block that old style Irish teaching brought with it.
Conradh Na Gaeilge have almost the same text on their homepage. It’s not likely to stay there indefinetly so use the above link if you’re reading this a year from now!
Category Archives: General
Testimonies: Why I Left Islam
I can’t comment on the validity of most of the arguments used here but what’s there is disturbing – on both sides. Here’s a counter arguement against the most shocking fact i read there. In the interests of fairness I might as well link to a pro Islam site too..
“It’s on the Internet – it must be true!”
Happy Birthday Louise!
Happy birthday Louise! hehe. Told ya I’d blog this!
Upstairs in Cubins is pretty mad! Wondering now.. when was the last time I was out this late on a Tuesday night? Too long! Just please, don’t throw anything difficult at me tomorrow!
On a more serious note, Ivan Noble was on The Last Word talking about his fight against a malignant brain tumour. He’s gone through a lot and he’s documenting his experiences online. He has links to previous posts up there too making it easy to read back on his progress.
I hope that tumour stays in remission for as long as possible Ivan!
Mary Harney says "shop around!"
Remember I mentioned that IRMA are suing CDWOW?
Here’s a leaflet to print and share, informing your friends and colleagues of the massive price differences between buying online and buying on the high-street. “Shop around!”
ireland.com – Budget 2004
Budget 2004 is being delivered right now. As well as listening to it on RTE 1 you can catch highlights at the above url.
Cigarettes are up 25¢ per pack of 20, and petrol and diesel are up 5¢ a litre. Lots more to come…
Incoming Spam
Here’s what my daily spam count likes like as of about an hour ago:
The time covered goes from Oct 10th to Dec 1st, and, as you can see the spammers were very busy at the end of November!
They are still busy in fact, but I removed several system addresses from our server – email to them is going directly to /dev/null. Spammers must be getting desperate. None of those addresses would have been listed on *any* website yet they received half of my spam. that’s the result of getting hit by Rumpelstilskin attacks so often.
Hey Americans – notice the amount of spam on Thanksgiving? *argh*
That old SPAM problem
I’ve just done what I should have done a long time ago – cleaned up the system addresses on our company mail server. Gone are addresses like bin, daemon, adm, lp, mail, mailman, games, and amanda. “Amanda”? That’s our backup software and only ever gets mail from an internal machine. I’ll direct them all to /dev/null eventually, but they’re collecting in /home/amanda/spam.txt for the time being.
Looking at this morning’s 1.5MB spam I counted a huge number of mails to amanda, so shutting that off should alleviate problems somewhat.
Before a certain resident of Co. Galway comments, only one spam got into my inbox this morning! I just hate seeing /home/docaoimh/spam.txt being bigger than /var/spool/mail/docaoimh – perhaps I should subscribe to more mailing lists again! 😉
Search for Redhat 8
I occasionally take a look through the referers to this site. I noticed this evening a search for PHP REDHAT 8 and I thought, “what about redhat 8?” Unfortunately, the same doesn’t happen in a search for redhat 9, or fedora.
On that subject, must bring Fedora Linux home and install it. If it becomes like the Debian project we’re in for a good thing eventually!
Me spam Google? Never! 😆