Keola Donaghy's Culture HackBlogcasting A Tale Of Two Languages From East Hawai'i IslandMoving on up...- March 26, 2006 and away from Radio Userland. My subscription expires sometime this spring, so I decided to make the transition to WordPress. I got all of my data out of RU and formatted for importing into WP. One of the best parts of the transition was getting to learn a bit about WordPress templates, and I was able to take my old RU template and convert it to work in Wp. It took a few hours, but was worth it. Here's a screen shot of it running on my laptop. I'm thinking of releasing the theme and improving.http://radio.weblogs.com/0001196/2006/03/26.html#a568 Bottoms up, bubbles down- March 17, 2006 Though this is from a few years ago, it is always worth another look on St. Patrick's day. "Scientists have finally proven what beer lovers have long suspected: When beer is poured into a glass, the bubbles sometimes go down instead of up.In this video,chemists Richard N. Zare of Stanford University and Andrew J. Alexander of the University of Edinburgh explain the frothy details." Slánte!http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/su-scp031204.php Signs, signs, everywhere signs.- March 17, 2006 If this had happened tomorrow (St. Patrick's Day), I probably would have fallen flat on my face... One of our Hawaiian Studies majors came into our office with a young part-Hawaiian woman, perhaps 20 years old. He introduced us, and she explained that she had lived in Cork off and on from when she was eight until she was about 16. Apparently her father is from Cork and she has many relatives still there. We talked about our experiences there, and her eyes grew large when I explained that I was.http://www.ucc.ie/ Go maire tú a Chonn!- March 16, 2006 Congratulations to Conn at An tImeall for reaching his 100th podcast. Quite a milestone. I'm downloading as I write this. I sent him an audio note of congratulations, in Hawaiian, of course. Wow, it's just short of an hour long. I wonder what I'll do for my 100th podcast, if I ever get therehttp://imeall.blogspot.com/2006/03/imeall-100-cad.html Irish language under threat in Glencolmcille- March 14, 2006 Oideas Gael's Language Director Liam Ó Cuinneagain is concerned that the Gaeltacht status of Glencolmcille could be under threat unless more of a community effort is made to use Irish as a daily language. They found that less than 50% of people in Glencolmcille rate themselves as fluent in Irish and only around 20% speak it every day. My wife and I spent three wonderful weeks at Glencolmcille and were well served by Liam, Siobhan and the staff there.http://http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/donegalnews.php?articleid=000002782 Who's Martin- March 13, 2006 "The Irish language award went to Martin from an tImeal, who said he hopes to see Irish language blogging go mainstream by next year." Perhaps the author had a difficult time with "Ó Muíneacháin."http://www.electricnews.net/frontpage/news-9674421.html Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet.- March 13, 2006 This is the kind of thing that you might expect to happen in Ireland, not Norway.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_on_fe_st/beer_on_tap More Irish Blog Awards Coverage.- March 12, 2006 Go raibh maith agat a Bhernie for the coverage of the awards, congratulations to all of the winners, particularly to Conn at An tImeall. If I do make it back to Éire, hopefully I can witness the 2008 awards in person.http://irish.typepad.com/irisheyes/2006/03/irish_blog_awar.html Slugger top Irish political blog.- March 12, 2006 Congratulations to Mick and the crew at Slugger O'Toole for being named best political blog. No word on the other awards yet.http://www.sluggerotoole.com/index.php/weblog/slugger_abu/ From the Irish Times - Kilian Doyle takes a wry look at how St Patrick would fare if he were to return to Ireland today.- March 11, 2006 "It's a quiet January afternoon in O'Hooligan's Irish pub in Heaven. There's a rambunctious character sitting at a table surrounded by cronies doling out free pints to him. He's singing and yelling and generally holding court. Quietly, a small, wizened old geezer wearing a leather biker jacket and a faded Iggy Pop T-shirt walks into the pub and ambles over to the table. The place falls silent. 'Patrick' 'Oh, flip.' (He's been waiting for this. Fixes best smile and turns around, expecting the.http://www.ireland.com/events/st.patricks/features/article3.htm |