Sheen, whose mother was born in Ireland, said he plans to study English literature, philosophy and theology in Galway.
Read more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4392823.stm.
Archive for March, 2005
I’ve installed vBJournal 1.0 on boards.ie (along with my RSS 1.0 add-on) so that we can now aggregate journals from there in RDF (at last, Oblivion Knight wrote a conversion script from the vB3 port of Ryangel’s vB2 mod we were using previously to AN-net’s current version).
You can get the snippet of code required for the vBJournal RSS 1.0 exporter; you will also need to edit the journal_journalpage template (change type=xml to type=rss1 and XML Format to RSS 1.0 Format), change “SELECT journalist” to “SELECT journalist,journalname,journaldesc” in the downloadjournal section of journal.php, and make sure that the “Unregistered” usergroup can view journals in the vBulletin Admin CP.
Edit: I’ve had to change the add-on to fix a big security hole I just spotted; private blog entries were getting through.
So in my quest to see how hard it is to aggregate some Irish weblogs, I set up an aggregator at boards.ie. It uses Lilina, based on Magpie RSS (there’s also a nice article linked from the Magpie page on how to set up your own aggregator script using PHP).
Well as you may have heard, Star Trek: Enterprise has been cancelled, and here’s the plan for the finale:
‘Enterprise’ to Segue to ‘Generation’ in Final Episode
UPN has announced the voyage of Star Trek: Enterprise will come to an end on May 13 with two back-to-back episodes, “Terra Prime” and “These Are the Voyages.” A news release by the network said that “These Are the Voyages” will take place six years following “Terra Prime.” In it, “an emotional Captain Archer [Scott Bakula] and the crew return to Earth to face the decommission of Enterprise and signing of the Federation charter, ratifying the newly-formed alliance of planets they helped forge. Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Jonathan Frakes guest stars as Riker and Marina Sirtis guest stars as Troi in this special series finale.”
I checked out IrishBlogs.ie: it’s basically an aggregator of Ireland-related blogs, but the main drawback seems to be that there’s no search facility as at the moment it’s just a list of the most recent posts aggregated. I guess it’s a start, and others are moving in this direction too (read John McCormac’s Irish blogosphere post.
Hi,
You may have noticed from your referrer log files that we have beentesting out a new site at http://www.IrishBlogs.ie over the last few weeks. The idea is that we give the reader a selection of the best Irish Blogs - with short summaries of the the various blogs.
We really like your blog and have included it during our live testing period. Now that we are set to promote the site we thought that you would
want to know about it.This is version one of the site and we have plenty of ideas how it may be improved for the future and hope to implement them over the coming weeks and months.
Of course if you don’t want to be on the list simply enter “Please remove my blog” inthe subject line of a return email to me and I’ll remove it straight away.
Regards,
Alan.
Interesting article from New Scientist on things that don’t make sense. Thanks for the link Paul.
In a survey of 30 OECD countries, Ireland came 27th. This has received lots of press yesterday and today (from print in the Sunday Times, to news on RTE Radio 2FM, to online articles in the Register [1]).
IrelandOffline chairman Damien Mulley also appeared on a NewsTalk 106 FM show today discussing this topic (listen to the 16kbps/1.5MB MP3 rip of the show thanks to C. Garvey).
Well done IrelandOffline. Let’s see how eircom deal with it.
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/21/ireland_broadband/
I read in the Galway Advertiser (last week’s winner of the worst headline for the story “Galway to be world’s first official anti-racist city”) that the Eye Cinema in Wellpark is due to open today. I’m not sure is this a preview opening or an official opening, as their eyecinema.ie website seems a bit empty.
Edit: Scrap that, since I last typed the “Coming Soon” disappeared and there’s now a full timetable! Cool…
From http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/dws/story.tpl?inc=2005/03/17/news/57685.html:
Galway gets its first new cinema for over a decade this weekend when the state of the art facility named The Eye opens at Wellpark, with a facility which allows drivers to get from their cars to their cinema seats without having to venture outdoors.
Read on John McCormac’s blog that Eircom (and Esat BT using Eircom services) have announced a bandwidth increase from 512k to 1M (or 2M for customers on the higher packages). Now if they’d just increase/lift the monthly quotas…
I’ve just updated my weblog categories today, and came across the usual problems (e.g. splitting a category like Audio into Music and Radio means tags on previous posts have to be checked to make sure they are still correct). It’s not easy, and of course everyone has their own ideas about what structure a category hierarchy should have. John McCormac is using Technorati tags which seems like a good idea, so I might install one of the tags modules for WordPress. And there’s also the option of using the SKOS framework. For now, I’ve changed the description of each category to be an ODP URL.
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