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Ireland? Oh, you mean England...
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A spoonful of sugar... - 15/02/2001 - 01:59 GMT - [Link]

A spoonful of sugar...
...helps the medicine go in!. Thanks to her royal bounciness Jules for this.


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Ireland? Oh, you mean England... - 15/02/2001 - 17:21 GMT - [Link]

Ireland? Oh, you mean England...
It's 40 times the size of Ireland and 7.5 times the size of Germany; population of 16.7m; more natural resources than you can shake a stick at; capital Astana (moved from Almaty in 1998). Its president is one Nursultan A. Nazarbayev and its prime minister is Kazymzhomart Tokayev. And I bet you haven't a clue where it is.

I find the Irish in particular are always a little surprised when they're abroad and meet a foreigner who knows absolutely nothing about our little country, bar maybe having a vague (and generally wrong) notion about Northern Ireland. I've had this a few times until it occurred to me: why should they? Especially when I meet a Kazakhstani (re)immigrant who knows more about the Irish/Celts in general than I do. My mission in life is now to read up on Kazakhstan (link above) and every other country, er, in the world; then I'll be entitled to be outraged at some Johnny Foreigner's ignorance of the Emerald Isle :-)

Also, history of the Irish republic in a nutshell, courtesy of the CIA World Factbook:
"A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, approved in 1998, has not yet been implemented."


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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!

I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.

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