Web resources on Dublin Kids Activities

Some very interesting resources on Dublin for kid activities.

 

• Playgrounds review: 
  http://dublinfox.com/
• Activity for kids in Dublin:
  https://www.dublincitymum.ie/events
• An expatriate experience with Ireland, nice ideas for kids:
  https://expatwithkidsindublin.blogspot.ie
• Another (French) expatriate, more adult and food related:
  http://www.frenchfoodieindublin.com/
• OWLS THE CHILDREN'S NATURE CHARITY 
  http://www.owls.ie/what-we-do
• A blog post, 3 days in Dublin with kids: 
  http://www.dochara.com/tour/itineraries/dublin-with-kids/
• Inspiration source from Lovin Dublin:
• https://lovindublin.com/best-of/the-ten-best-weekend-activities-for-kids-in-dublin
• https://lovindublin.com/sponsored/12-places-to-take-your-kids-in-dublin-where-you-can-catch-a-break
• https://lovindublin.com/feature/6-great-rainy-day-activities-for-kids-in-dublin

• An old Book:
  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2938194-the-adventure-guide-to-dublin

So who is visiting this site ....

Well according to the march report, mainly Ireland, then France, a bit from the US.
The icelandic one, I think I know who you are ;)
But I am clueless for the Brazilian and the Russian....

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).

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.....

What is Web 2.0

France 3 - Italy 1

Good start fro France in their qualification for the Euro 2008, not only they won, but with style !

Random surfing, causing random babbling....

• [FR] Anyway, interesting post yesterday in Transnets, about the fact that comanies uctually use the creativity, the brain of internet users to create contents, to sort data (yourtube, tags on flickr). There is a real work done, manual indexation, real creation (lego movie) by all internet user.
  And all this work, is it an intellectul property ? How is it protected, used ?
  
  The writer has an interesting blog: humains-associes.org , promoting some Netiquette on the web.
• [FR] Arte Radio, at a time where everybody's going back to school, offers a great insight on all the hesitation, question a teenager faces when it comes to orientation, choose a path in school.
• Gordon Ramsay [TV: Hell's Kitchen, Ramsay's kitchen Nightmare, the F World], in the New York Times, [article] talks about his experience in France and it's dream of coming back there to install a restaurant. I had to say I quite agree about the french arrogance, I would love to see that restaurant. Here's the quote:
  

  “I’d love to go back to Paris, to be honest,” he said. “You know how arrogant the French are — extraordinary. They make us all look so normal. I got such abuse there, I was like a tortured child. So the idea is to go back to Paris, staff the restaurant all with English and call it Roast Beef!”

• As published in Nature, the plancton in the seas does not seem to absorb as much CO2 as initially thought [article ; pdf ]... bad for our future, you can also learn what some scientist wants to fertilize the plancton, increase its growth so it can absorb all the CO2 created by human activities. Unfortunately at the same time, it seems that the global warning, is favorising the natural release of the CO2 trapped in european grounds [peat].
• According to an european study, Ireland is the country were adult are drunk more often (drinking more than 5 pint in one night more than once a month), and the young are not better 32% of the teenager get drunk more than three times a month (33% for the boys and 31% for the girls). Ireland is the third in Europe, by Alcohol consumption (15 pure alcohol consumed per adult each year in average). No wonder, why unlike the rest of Europe were alcohol consumption decline, here it has progressed by 25% between 1995 and 2005.
  

• Last monday, my parents, came for the first time in Ireland, landing in Dublin, they arrived in Bunratty tuesday.

Then we headed to their accomodation in Lahinch (Co Clare), with its wonderful beach.

There is nothing like finishing, the day in the Lahinch beach under the falling sun, (may be adding a guinness).

• Quotation of the day:

"Reality is what remains, when you stop believing in it."
Philip. Kindred. Dick

Cubicle work

Cubicle
Like Dilbert, I work in a cubicle, invented by R.Propst in 1968. First the system, was created/designed simply to increase the productivity of the worker, partition were mainly there to insure privacy and places to pin-up the current work... The system evolved driven by economics to pack more and more people in a given space. ( see Article in Fortunes about the fate of the cubicle).
Instead of being a Dilbert, I would probably prefer to be a Gaston Lagaffe.... -sic-
Anyway I work in a cubicle, to produce (at the end of the day) some funny features people will only see with a microscope, and use intensively to build bomb, cars... to play Rayman and to download some pornography.












See Mister-T on a chip


HISTORY
Today (5 may) is the 25th anniversary of the death of Bobby Sands in English prison.
90 years ago the republic of Ireland raise (Easter raising, 24 April 1916) which lead to the war for independance and the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
History still present, nowaday, in the political division of the two main movements, still present in the sport with the GAA refusing to see "foreign" sports played on his ground.

And next year, Croke Park will see rugby matches ... things change ....
To summarize, there is great debate in Ireland regarding the usage of Croke Park. As the GAA was founded as an organisation to maintain and promote indigenous Irish sport, it has felt honour-bound throughout its history to oppose other, rival sports.
Up until the early 1970s, rule 27 of the GAA constitution stated that a member of the GAA could be banned from playing its games if found to be also playing football, rugby.
That rule has been abolished but a similar rule, #42, still prohibited the use of GAA ground for "foreign" games. On April 2005, the rule #42 has been relax to accomodate the impossibilty to play in Landsdowne Road (stadium refection).

BD-blog and WebComics
Just some fun links about webcomics and bd_blog

• Melaka Blog (French)
• Megatokyo (BD)
• Mouton Benzene (French)
  
• Boulet Corp Blog (French)
• Nancy Pena (French)
• Madame Fa blog (French)
• PHD comics
  

And to discover few comics universe I like:

• To discover the world of Schuiten and Peeters
• Joann Sfar the author of "La fille du professeur"
• Lewis Trondheim
• Donjon universe