Monthly Archives: April 2013
Ruairi Carroll writes:
I was walking down Ireland’s premier shopping street today when I noticed all the empty shops. Kind of depressing..
Do de moonwalk!
From the Capuchin archives:
Photographic print of Michael Collins at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin, addressing a meeting to promote the National Loan in 1920. St. Enda’s or Scoil Éanna, was a secondary school established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908. The print forms part of a collection of photographs intended for publication in the 1966 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Easter Rising.
The original NeXT browser
20 years ago TODAY, CERN released the technology needed to run the WorldWideWeb freely available.
With this simple altruistic act, the information-based revolution began spawning entire industries that were not even conceived of even a few years previously.
By late 1993 there were 500 websites.
Today there’s somewhere in the region of 630 million.
Without this project spinning out of CERN, we would probably still prefer dogs and maybe look at things a little bit differently.
If you’re of a technical bent, you could even try and get the first web browser up and running (aside: it’s written in Objective-C which is used to write the vast majority of iOS apps).
H/T to Steven Troughton-Smith for the browser link
Steady On
atIf you’re player waiting to watch TV at 11.00am to see if you’re in @lionsofficial squad how are you feeling? Excited, nervous – suicidal?
— British&Irish Lions (@lionsofficial) April 30, 2013
Update:
Irish selection: Rob Kearney, Tommy Bowe, BOD, Johnny Sexton, Conor Murray, Cian Healy, POC, SOB & Jamie Heaslip.
Combined age 254
Is He Yours?
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Found on campus.
Well fed but alone.
Helen Nolan writes:
I understand you don’t normally do this, but I found this guy in UCD yesterday evening. No collar and no owners listed on his microchip. I’m sure someone is looking for him! I’d appreciate any help getting him back to his owners – if he looks familiar to anyone, send me a message [below]!
She’s coming.
US abstinence zealot, Pam Stenzel in Dublin in May.
Free entry.
Declan writes:
Might sort out the abortion crisis…
Pure in Heart Ireland (Facebook)
Pam Stenzel, Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Speaker, Reportedly Tells Students ‘If You Take Birth Control, Your Mother Probably Hates You’ (Huffington Post)
Restaurants Association of Ireland spokesman Neven Maguire championing the benefits of keeping that 9% VAT rate.
The #KeepVat9 campaign is being launched this morning.
RAI Chief Executive, Adrian Cummins sez:
“VAT at 9% has had a positive effect on all aspects of the restaurant sector specifically, but also the wider tourist industry generally. This is why the RAI fervently believes it would be foolhardy to get rid of it. Reducing VAT to this level is a real success story so the RAI is sending a clear message to Government saying Keep VAT at 9%”
YOU decide.
This morning at the junction of Pembroke Street, Dublin..
Stephen writes:
Baggot Street, dry cleaners above Pablo Picantes, looks like it went up in flames.