Archive for January, 2005
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
So yesterday I collected all the stuff that had accumulated in my departmental mailbox over the holidays - mainly library books. And there in the middle of it was an envelope from 'ICLS'. "What is ICLS?" I hear you ask? Why it's the Internet Corporation Listing Service, and they had ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
Zach's post on dialects prompts me to write about my own experiences. Coming from Ireland to the States has obviously involved coming to grips with differences in both written and spoken language, and has not always been easy.
As Zach discusses, it's not that one form of language or the other ...
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
I just got pointed towards an interesting session on radio and social software at the Emerging Technology Conference this March in San Diego. A team from the BBC are talking about how they've experimented with incorporating the approach into Radio 1 programming.
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
Léigh mé í bhFoinse go bhfúil seans an-mhaith go dtabharfaidh BCI ceadúnas do RTE stáisiún Gaeilge eile ar an aer. Séirbhís do dhaoine óga a bheadh í gceist agus go mbeadh "liricí Béarla ceadaithe."
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
The Inquirer has a relatively interesting piece about the emerging digital radio standards. I found the opening paragraph somewhat amusingly worded, however:THE RACE to provide the world with digital radio services is creating a new standards war, it has emerged."It has emerged"? The various standards have been around for some ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
This snippet gives an interesting overview of Ireland's economic growth:Ireland is set to become the world's third-wealthiest nation. The Bank of Ireland has announced that its wealth per head of population overtook that of the US for the first time in 2004. In 1988 Ireland was one of the ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2005
I had a very pleasant conversation this afternoon with Tom Butler of ComReg - he rang to let me know that they'll get a response to me within the next few days. I wasn't sure at the time but it's seemingly true, he used to be the Labour Party press ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2005
Tá píosa faoi Aceh, tar éis an olltonn tsunami í bhFoinse. B'fhéidir go bhfuil an alt faoin mboladh an rud is uafásach:Boladh brocach é, a shamhlófá le boladh ó láithreán bruscair ach amháin go bhfuil boladh ar leith ag an mheath cinnte daonna (definite human decay) measctha isteach le ...
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Monday, January 10th, 2005
A friend pointed me towards this interesting site about the PLATO computer system/community that began at UIUC in 1973.
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Sunday, January 9th, 2005
No, I don't have a response from ComReg yet, but coincidentally ComReg published, this morning 05/01, Preparing the Radio Spectrum Management Strategy for 2005 -2007. So, what is their proposed strategy for sound broadcasting?monitor the development of digital modulation techniques that have the potential to replace the analogue service with ...
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