Javascript appears to have been blocked on Facebook in these here parts. If we’ve been playing Scrabble or you’re waiting for me to answer a message, it isn’t going to happen in the immediate future. I can’t even view my friends list.
Breakingnews.ie has had a makeover. It’s quite nice and even includes video and audio now, unlike the abomination that it used to be. I’m not too gone on the huge amount of white space at the top though. It looks a bit of a waste.
The website is running a poll on whether the Irish language is being neglected. In one of those hang-you-head-in-your-hands moments, the poll — which is normally a fairly irreverent thing — doesn’t allow the use of a fada. So tá becomes ta, all under the correct RTÉ.ie logo. Amusingly though, someone in the company’s web team has edited the code so it reads Ta (an poll software seo, nach gceadaionn fada a usaid, san aireamh). That’s “this poll software doesn’t allow the use/inclusion of sínte fada“. Amusing to me, perhaps, but clearly not to you. I have failed you again, dear reader.
Brady excited by working with Trapattoni.
RTÉ do their best to out (or make bisexual) the soccer legend Liam Brady. Our taxes at work!
A Stormtrooper straight from the Star Wars films invaded the high court in London today.
The sinister figure stood glaring towards the judge as a multi-million pound battle began over the costumes used in the series of sci-fi films which chronicled intergalactic wars.
George Lucas, the creator of the films, is suing prop designer Andrew Ainsworth who made the first helmets and suits for the original 1977 film and is now selling replicas made at his studio in Twickenham, south west London.
The subprime mortgage crisis is likely to mean losses of $945bn worldwide. It comes as house prices in Ireland return to realistic levels, at least according to the governor of the Central Bank, who is ignoring an IMF claim that the market is still 30% overvalued. (Incidentally, the mortgage loss report is also from the IMF). But I wonder: given the subprime fallout, will an Irish bank ever want to give me a mortgage?