Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 25, 2009, 1:35 am
IMG_0688 Originally uploaded by Brian Clayton My home city of Cork (Corcaigh, Ireland) was flooded last week because of very bad rains on Thursday that burst the banks of the river Lee. The pictur...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 24, 2009, 1:40 am
Eva has an interesting choice in music. Below are two bands that she has introduced me to recently: Ladytron and Aural Vampire.
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 23, 2009, 7:14 am
I was able to sucessfully able to install Windows 7 on my Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. It works pretty well, looks nice and starts faster than XP. I wrote last night that I was unable to install 64...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
It has been a long day and it's still not over. Eva and I were at a birthday party last night. It was neither local nor in Tallinn so we had to stay over and get an early morning train back home. ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 21, 2009, 4:53 am
We sat at the breakfast table eating our porridge. It was seven in the morning. I had been up since 6, school morning as it was. With classes starting at 10 at home in Ireland it was rare for me to be...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 20, 2009, 12:55 am
Watching Abdul Turay on ETV it struck me: "Are Estonians obsessed in knowing what foreigners think of them and their country? For those who saw the emission,  I thought the most cringy part ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 19, 2009, 5:00 am
out of time Originally uploaded by orvalrochefort It looks like it might be the end of the road for my laptop. I wrote last year how it failed spectacularily but with a lot of hair-pulling and a s...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 18, 2009, 3:39 am
Estonia - Tallinn - Old Town View Originally uploaded by Darrell Godliman Living outside of Tallinn city centre, I don't get much of a chance to walk the streets. Thus my knowlege of the geogr...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 17, 2009, 9:19 am
Last week Eva and I made kali or kvass as it is known in Russian and English. Kali is a weakly alocholic drink made from rye bread (rukkileib in Estonian). It is an awesome drink for all seasons of th...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 16, 2009, 10:41 am
Eva just posted on the making of rye bread. All you homebakingophiles, breadophiles and Estophiles go and check her post out!
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 16, 2009, 5:50 am
Eva has an interest in all things Japanese, especially anime and cuisine. Encouraged somewhat by Kris's review Eva and I paid a visit to Sushicat on Roosikrantsi. My initial impression of the...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 15, 2009, 10:11 am
I stood at the top of the classroom with my back to my new group of students. There were 9 of them and it was 12th grade. They were discussing me behind my back as I wrote my name on the white board, ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 14, 2009, 5:56 am
Normally I share my the breakfast table with Veski Mati's kaerahelbed (oat flakes). Despite them being very tasty company in the morning, especially with some kodumoos (home-made jam), they can ge...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 12, 2009, 11:44 pm
Stress Originally uploaded by moonbuggs Recently I wrote how I went for an allergy test at a lab near where my fiancée Eva works. The woman at the lab and indeed Eva's university supervisor (...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 12, 2009, 4:19 am
Abdul Turay writes in yesterday's Postimees (11.11.2009) an article entitled Black men and Estonian women: The whole truth. (Translated into English by Google). His central premise is that the rea...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 11, 2009, 3:29 am
I should dance more. In these winter climes when there is snow and ice on the ground it is rather hard to go jogging. That and I left my runners back in Ireland. Strectching, floor exercises and danci...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 10, 2009, 4:34 am
Yesterday was Mardipäev (St. Martin's Day) in Estonia. It's a sort of Estonian Halloween except that the Estonians aren't content with one but have two instead! Kadripäev (St. Catherine&...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 9, 2009, 9:14 am
As a person who had never seen the first season and whose only frame of reference was the British Edition it was hard to get into the TV3's Apprentice Ireland. Something just did not sit right wit...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 9, 2009, 5:33 am
Berlin Wall, 09 November 1989
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 8, 2009, 7:11 am
Geoffrey Pullum over at the Log linked a nice article by Giles Turnbull on kids' words for the many different kinds of Lego bricks. Turnbull writes: Every family, it seems, has its own set...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 8, 2009, 6:55 am
So Eva and I were at the table having lunch this afternoon and I wanted to employ the word jobu which loosly translates as 'idiot' or if you are Irish 'arse', as in 'he's an id...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 5, 2009, 12:00 am
Reflections Of Amsterd@m - BMW Style Originally uploaded by AmsterS@m - The Wicked Reflectah Bhí agallamh agam inné ag Scoil Chomhoideachais Draíodóireachta Tallinn. Bhuel, chaithim a rá go r...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 4, 2009, 1:20 pm
The Sámi rock group SomBy has won the jury's vote at Liet International 2009, the pan-European minority languages song contest. Nine groups took part in the contest from all across Europe each si...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 3, 2009, 1:44 pm
The Failure Of Technology - Part B Originally uploaded by George L Smyth Hier j'avais mon premier entretien de l'année. Le travail était à une entreprise qui se concerne avec la génér...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 3, 2009, 9:47 am
The fourth part of an interesting documentary series on the history of Scotland. This episode focuses on the struggle between the Gaelic Highlands and the Scots Lowlands whose outcome signalled the be...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Nov 2, 2009, 2:43 am
Parfois je me sens inexistant. Parfois j'ai l'impression que je sois une personne de passage, que je passe d'un monde à l'autre, que je ne sois pas lié, que je flotte au vent, en mer...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 31, 2009, 4:10 am
Today I wanted to write a nice post about how much I enjoyed going to see The Timetraveler's Wife in the cinema yesterday. Both Eva and I are fans of the book and we were both excited to go and se...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 30, 2009, 2:53 am
Debut Originally uploaded by Rik Miller Eva taught me a new expression in Estonian the other day - mida sa sokid?, literally: 'what are you socking?' The phrase is nonsense in the sense th...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 29, 2009, 3:14 am
Freedom Square Originally uploaded by Eestlane_Iirimaal I was reading Estonian for Eva the other day. It was a passage from my course book E nagu Eesti and was a dialogue between two people on ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 28, 2009, 3:36 am
75-percent rye bread with flax seeds & sunflower seeds Originally uploaded by sierravalleygirl Eva ja mina käisime reede õhtul soolaleival. Pidu oli linnas ühe Eva sõbra korteris. Peol oli koh...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 27, 2009, 6:41 am
34/365 - B is for Battling the Bulge Originally uploaded by helgasms! It's been tough the last few months. I wrote back in March how through daily exercise and a controlled diet I lost almost a st...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 25, 2009, 3:58 pm
According to this article, that originally appeared in the Economist, Finno-Ugric (FU) linguist Mall Hellam constructed the sentence below as the only one to be shared between the three biggest FU lan...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 22, 2009, 10:26 am
I came across these pictures today and I just had to post them. Being the language junky that I am I took the liberty of translating them in to French, Irish and Estonian. I took the pictures from thi...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 21, 2009, 5:45 am
Today I picked up an interesting Estonian-Russian bilingual book. It's called Suur must koer/ большая чёрная сoбака (bol'šaja čjernaja sobaka; big black dog). It's writ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 20, 2009, 10:33 am
Mis teha kui sul on liiga palju õunu aias? Loomulikult sa pead midagi küpsetama! Eile õhtul Eva ja mina küpsetasime õunasaiu kaneeliga. Nad olid maitsvad, aga ma pean ütlema, et saiade sisu oli ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 15, 2009, 6:02 am
Físeán greannmhar fé mná Eastónach a fhuair mé ar YouTube inniu. Humourous video about Estonian woman I found on YouTube today.
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 14, 2009, 2:13 pm
Äratuskell helises kell kuus. Ma tegin silmad lahti, aga ma ei tõusnud üles enne poolt seitset. Ma läksin kööki ja ma sõin Evaga hommikust. Ta tegi kaeraputru moosiga ja see oli väga maitsev. ...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 14, 2009, 12:16 pm
last chance veg... Originally uploaded by buckaroo kid Chuaigh mé agus mo grá go dtí bialann do veigeatóirí i dTallinn inniu. Maitsev ja Tervislik (Blasta agus Sláintiúil) an t-ainm atá uirthi...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 13, 2009, 12:19 pm
A snazzy new conference, shopping and entertainment called Solaris opened recently in Tallinn. It has a cinema so Eva and I were eager to sign up for membership and check it out. We frequently use ano...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 12, 2009, 9:39 am
Master Thesis Originally uploaded by madstfriSo I'm back in Estonia. My thesis has been completed and submitted and I gave a talk for the first ever Eesti keele päev (Estonian language day) in Ir...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 11, 2009, 6:14 am
Hugging is indeed a strange thing on planet man. The rules of engagement vary from culture to culture and man to man. However, one thing is certain. All rules go out the window when sport is concerned...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 8, 2009, 9:39 am
No, I don't have a cold. I was saying 'thank you' in Lithuanian. I was passing by a food store in Dublin city center today called Baltic Way. I thought it would be interesting to go in an...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 6, 2009, 6:28 am
Jõgevamaal Originally uploaded by Estonian Foreign MinistryMaidin Luain an seachtain seo chugainn beidh mé ar mo bhealach ar ais go dtí an Eastóin. Níl post im lámh fós ach tá dóchas orm go b...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Oct 1, 2009, 6:42 am

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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 28, 2009, 1:42 pm
Recently I was out for a walk on the sea-front. A couple of things happened. 1 - I bought an ice-cream and got strawberry surup all over me and I dropped my choclate flake on the ground. It wasn'...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 18, 2009, 11:25 am
Kuula seda head uut laulu. Laulja nimi on Gemma Hayes ja ta on pärit Iirimaalt. Ta laulab rahulikult ja tal on hea hääl.
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 16, 2009, 12:29 pm
I made my fiancée laugh today by showing her a motivational message that I had written on my noticeboard in my room. The message goes as follows: Sa võid kui su peput tooli peale panned. What I had...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 16, 2009, 4:59 am
Me parents were doing a clean-out of the rooms last week and I came across a brochure called The Manual. It was produced by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) in 2005. Frankly, I don't know whether t...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 15, 2009, 12:54 pm
Yesterday my mother broke the family teapot. No, scratch that. She broke the only teapot in our home. Times are tough because of these depressions but now with our teapot gone the whole fabric of our...
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Colm D. posted an article on Corcaighist - Sep 14, 2009, 11:16 am
My thesis is shaping up very nicely as a result of non-stop writes and re-writes over the last week. I have learned two things however during the course of project. 1. Start writing early. After ever...
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