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Dublin Opinion: “Prior to 1914,” he said, “there was in Europe as much a history of serfdom and eviction as anything in the Irish experience, particularly Eastern Europe. In fact, Irish land reform was decades ahead of the rest of the world, beginning as it did in the late nineteenth century. (via Cosmos)

  The Blog That Should Not Be: WordPress Global Tags seem like a nice feature.  They allow you to see what other bloggers on WordPress.com are blogging about by clicking on the different categories, which is all very well and good if you are interested in looking at this stuff on other blogs.  What if you’re not?  What if you want to click on a category link and get all the related posts in that category only on the current blog you are reading?  Can it be done?  Not that I can see.  And that’s the thing which is really pissing me off right now!  If I could get my hands on the person who thought it was a great idea to enable this for everyone by default, and not make it optional or something which could be enabled or disabled by the blog owner, I would really love to beat the crap out of them, particularly after the hours and hours I have spent in the last two weeks moving all my links to this blog.  I really liked WordPress until this!  I’m seriously going to have to consider moving my blog elsewhere. (via Cosmos)

Winds and Breezes: I’m saying this because Brussels is a city with roughly the same population as Dublin, with a massive amount of money floating around due to a lot of international organisations with highly paid staff, with a decent transport system and very decent connections to the rest of the world via rail. (via Cosmos)

The Land Of Ireland: Saving Private Ryan opens with the bright Normandy sun of present times darkened by a billowing American stars and stripes, and ends with an aged American war veteran, at the grave of a fallen soldier colleague, asking whether he has justly earned his survivor ticket home from Europe in 1944. The technique of showing the US flag backlit against the high sun has the effect of draining almost all colour from the American standard. (via Cosmos)

  wysiwyg blog dublin ireland by janine dalton: Winds observed recently that on house hunting at Daft, several properties did not show an asking price. Instead they were marked “Price on Application”. (via Cosmos)

Ireland Logue - Ireland Logue: ooooo, Irish news in a DAILY DOSE! Just about then I realised I was getting the auld DDs, When the child of Prague began to dance around the mantlepiece . . . Female domestic murder victims commemorated: Read here 80% of Irish support gay marriage: Read here €50k of cocaine seized in Kildare: Read here Europe warns Dublin over urban sprawl: Read here More Irish kids using hard drugs: Read here Irish mortgage complains up: (via Cosmos)

CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: Israel has killed nearly 400 Palestinians in Gaza, about half of them civilians, since it began its offensive in June following the abduction of an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid, hospital officials and residents say. Three soldiers have been killed. (via Cosmos)

  DZ-015 - The Half-Arsed Blog Of RTE 2FM's Rick O'Shea: reviewed in The Irish Times over the weekend for that one tiny afterthought of a bit we did on Wednesday evening at the end of the show....Mad Ted... (via Cosmos)

  Irish Election: There is an upgrade in the row about the decision to locate the new national children’s hospital at the Mater.  Crumlin Hospital has released a detailed report taking issue with the Mater’s suitability for the facility, amongst other things in terms of space — a pressing issue given the importance of parental presence for children unfortunate enough to be in hospital in the first place (Irish Times link here).  Worth then to log for future reference a claim from a couple of months ago that Bertie had essentially promised that the Mater would get the facility before the decision was made — (via Cosmos)

Spatial Ireland: . The article includes ground-level photographs to accompany most of the satellite images. Higher resolution imagery of Dublin (possibly aerial photography) is available through the mapping applications (powered byMapFlow’s LocationAgent) on the MyHome.ie (here) and RealEstate.ie (here) websites. (via Cosmos)

 [Googlemapsmania.blogspot.com] Google Maps Mania: A Summary of the Google Geo Developer Day: Lars Rasmussen, lead engineer for Google Maps, was in New York to accept an award at the Webby Awards for Google Maps. The Maps team took the geo developers in the room through an overview of the API including some background, including an acknowledgement that when the API was released last year it was in fact catching up to what people like Paul Rudamacher (housingmaps) and Adrian Holovaty (ChicagoCrime) had done by exploiting the code of Google Maps and creating Google Maps hacks.

[Dublinblogs.com] Dublin Blogs » Geocode: Thanks to John Handelaar, Ireland now has a free rudimentary service to obtain coordinates for a given street name. Free geocoding services (such as geocoder.us for the USA) are critical to the development of useful spatially-aware applications for the public, such as online mapping services, since coordinates are fundamental to the analysis and processing of spatial information.

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