Irish statistics

Today, the result of the Irish census are published (by the Central Statistics Office ), interesting figures:
- 8.2% increase of the population over the last 4 years ( 2002-2006 ), There has 33 000 babies during that period and 46 000 immigrants.
- Population average age : 35.6 years
- 100.1 males for 100 females (all ages)
- 103.4 males for 100 females (all ages)
- Over 43% of singles 46% married. There is also an increase of marital breakdown.
- 10.4% of the population is born outside of the ROI ( 7.5% from the EU )
- The census reveal 63000 people from Poland and 24808 from Lithuania. And 9307 from France (4700 registered in the Ambassade ).
- 4 out of ten of new build houses (Irish Independant), are empty.... it smells like speculation.. and the building bubble might soon explode... 25% of the houses build since 2002 are empty ... and they keep building.
Worst the houses are badly insulated, and build very (too) fast.

You can summarize it by: the population is 10% of non-irish national, getting older. Divorce are on the increase, women have less child and family are smaller. Islam is now the third religion...

Full results can be found there.

The Blogger "petite anglaise" (http://www.petiteanglaise.com/) won the first round of her trial against her ex-employer, who fired her because of her blog.

An interesting website propose to listen the soundtrack of movies: http://power.listentoamovie.com/
You can hear: Casablanca, American Psycho, Blade Runner....

Eurovision 2007

A fun band is going to represent France this year at the Eurovision Song Contest....



And here there "hommage" to Sardou ...

Rainy St Patrick Day

St Patrick Parade in the streets of Galway













A very rainy day....
And a good performance by the irish team in the 6 nations championship has not been enough to prevent France from winning....

Evidence

So and what about you ? Are you watching it too much ?

A fun game on the internet : Line Rider.

Animation....

I love animated films, here's one of the first. 1908 created by Emile Cohl.

Too many data produced ???

According to a recent study from IDC, we created 161 billion gigabytes -- 161 exabytes -- of digital information last year (2006).
That's a lot ( 12 time the distance Sun-Earth by stacking books ). In 2003, another study from Berkeley found we produced 5 exabytes ( How Much Information 2003 ? ), so we are producing more and more digital contents ( photos, emails, surveillance cams .... ), and duplicating it, so much what we can wonder if we will be able to store everything.... But do we need to store everything ? And storage are increasing.. probably not as fast as the data production.

And if you add on the top of that the format problem and support problem. Will we be able to read document in word'97 in 100 years, will we be able to read a CDR in 100 years ?

Here's few number to get an idea:
2 Megabytes: A high-resolution photograph.
5 Megabytes: The complete works of Shakespeare.
1 Gigabyte: a pickup truck filled with books.
20 Gigabytes: A good collection of the works of Beethoven.
10 Terabytes: The print collections of the U.S. Library of Congress.
2 Petabytes: All U.S. academic research libraries.
20 Petabytes: Production of hard-disk drives in 1995.
5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings. ( how did they measure that ??? )


New York Times Article: Tech Researchers Calculate Digital Info
IDC
Berkeley study

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Sad news, Yvan Delporte is dead this 5th of March 2007 ( aged 78 ), he has been a great inspiration for numerous comic writer, through his collaboration to magazine like Spirou or "Le Trombone Illustre"....

Web page on Franquin website [French]

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TROCAIRE is launching a new campaign about gender inequality, judged "too political" by the Broadcast Commission of Ireland (as a result the campaign is forbidden on radio and TV).

There are pirates fighting on my bookshelves...

Wonder where there come from, as there are no Stevenson's book here.



Link:
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Shannon, Fastnet wind

Gale-force southwesterly winds at times overnight on all sea areas - with strong gales at firston coasts from Loop Head to Erris Head to Fair Head.Strong-gale- or storm-force southerly winds developing Monday afternoon and eveningon all sea areas.

Thanks to met eireann.

So it was windy on the burren coast, today...

A useful website: http://www.videojug.com/

A quite useful website: http://www.videojug.com/.

Here's some example:



VideoJug: How To Surf A Wave In One Day

Or ...

VideoJug: How To Be The Perfect Boyfriend


Okay i've got some practice to improve myself :-P.....