Snippets #19
By Primal Sneeze ~ July 31st, 2008. Filed under: Snippets.
- One of the plugins entered for the WordPress Plugin Competition is Sermon Management. Yeah, yeah, yeah - who gives a flying fox. No one. Except PaddyAnglican maybe, but he’s on Bloggeryspottery and can’t use it. But here’s the thing: In the promo it states one of its aims is to make Wordpress the CMS of choice for all small-medium churches. Like that? A CMS for an SMC.
- Caro posted this YouTube video. Sermon Management can be used for indexing videos on blogs by the way. But anyway, you can have your Dr. Horribles and your Dark Knights, this is a must see. Twice. You’ll miss bits the first time.
- I should have shot a video myself yesterday. One of the family, after years on a waiting list, finally got a speech synthesiser. And his first words after all that time? Listen
- Sorry there’s no fancy player plugin for that clip. I couldn’t be bottomed searching for one on Google, Yahoo! or even the new cuil.com. Actually I’ll wait a while before using Cuil.com for anything. It throws back my old WordPress.com site and a bunch of splogs for “Primal Sneeze”. Cuil isn’t cool. Yet. But I’m sure it will be.
- Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge according to the About page. New one on me. Cuil is a fly or bug (not a great word to use in connection with the newest entrant to the Internet search business). Cúl is goal. Cúil is back, back-end, rear, or arse (not a great word to use in connection with the newest entrant to the Internet search business). Where they get knowledge had me baffled.
- Until I seen Sarah Carey’s post about her work with Cuil.com. In comments she explains that “strictly speaking it should have two l’s (as in Finn McCuill - hazelnuts, fountain of wisdom, salmon of knowledge and all that) but everyone pronounced it Quill and complained bitterly”. So that’s all clear then. The legend of Fionn mac Cumhaill agus an Bradán Feasa results in Cumhaill now meaning knowledge. Or Cuill does. Or Cuil. Ah here, lads, would ye just drop the phrase Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. Me bollix it is! It never was. It never will be. Find another way to stamp your Irishness on the company if you feel you must.
You’re not talking about actual plugs are you? Shame because I can change real plugs. Blue left Brown right. It’s about the only DIY thing I can do. But sadly when it comes to the plugs you’re talking about here I’m totally lost.
I have used cuil though. Twice for the same search. First time I got absolutely nothing and after I told it that I simply did’t believe it I tried again and then got lots and lots. You have to talk more to cuil than google or yahoo. You heard it here first.
All these years I thought he was Finn Mac Cool. He lives at the end of my garden.
I tried Cuil and since there were no toyboys I left…
This guff about X is the ancient Irish word for Y is just more depressing evidence of how few of us actually speak the language.
Even the explanation is arseways.
Coll [Hazel] has nothing to do with Cumhal [Fionn's oul fella].
The knowledge bit comes into it because the salmon of knowledge [Eo Feasa] that Fionn blistered his thumb on fed itself on hazelnuts falling into its pool.
Ach sin scéal eile.
I looked up cuil in the DIL and they reckon it has to do with violence and incest….
@Conortje - Of course I meant real plugs. When can you come by?
Cuil.com got hammered right after the launch by folks like us trying it out and was returning blanks. They underestimated how many people would try it. Where did I hear that before.
@Grannymar - Smart move there, missis. Have to get the priorities right.
@Aonghus - Bugger! Rosie suggested yesterday I ask you about the Old Irish meaning, if any. It slipped my mind. A pity because violence and incest would have brought my piss-take to a whole new level.
Talk about getting lost in translation. If I, with my degenerated Irish, was setting up a search engine I’d call it lorg, maybe even lorg.org. Unless the domains are already spoken for?
@Conan Drumm - Sorry, but the Leprechaun Oppression Resistance Group own that. findm.ie might pull in the ego-surfers.
Glad to see your relative finally got his speech synthesizer, and even gladder to see he has his priorities straight!
Damnit! Whatabout L.org?
Kevin Scanell has http://www.aimsigh.com [find in Irish]
It used to be a search engine tailoired for results in Irish, but that got wiped in a server crash and hasn’t been restored yet.
It is now something much more interesting - a mind map for Irish words.
http://borel.slu.edu/lsg/details.html
I’d prefer Cuardaigh to lorg, and “Fios” for knowledge [occult or otherwise].
Or even “Fiafraigh” [ask - for information]
Tosach feasa fiafraitheacht
Curiousity is the beginning of knowledge.
The exact repetition of “not a great word to use in connection with the newest entrant to the Internet search business” had me chuckling. Also, a well done to the person with the speech synthesiser, an excellent job there!
@Caro - He has it on loan for three weeks. Not sure yet if they have the budget to let him keep it. Our Health Service is great, isn’t it!
@Conan Drumm - Most domain registrars don’t allow names less than 4 characters. I’d check .org’s policy for you, but you probably already have. You have, right?
@aonghus - Shorter domain names work better. lorg.com wins over cuardaigh.com any day, despite their precise meanings/translation. (If Conan’s l.org were possible it would be perfection).
To get back to the original topic, cuil.com is a play on cool. That’s enough. They’re was no need for pretence about it having an Irish language connection. Doing that has tainted my, and possibly, your, impression of the company.
Aimsigh.com is the dogz, by the way. I hate the overkill that is Java, but it’s cool (cuil) this time.
@Mark - Sometimes I repeat myself. Sometimes I repeat myself.
That clip cracked me up! I’m tickled to death that after all he has been through he still has his sense of humor.
I really don’t like Cuil…
Some of the most relevant results at the top of Google, don’t even show up in the frirst 10-20 pages of Cuil…
But cuil doesn’t sound remotely like cool
Check it out at the cool http://www.abair.ie
Hmm. The comments on Sarah’s blog seem to have been cu[i]lled.
@Sugar Britches - It’s a catchphrase of Father Jack from the Father Ted series. Not sure if it was ever broadcast on US TV - much of the humour wouldn’t be appreciated.
@TheChrisD - In fairness, that depends on your definition of relevant - relevant = matching/appropriate content or relevant = popular/linked to/visited.
@aonghus - Not to you or I, but it does when pronounced by Americans, or so we, and they, are led to believe.
I’m still seeing the comments. The theme has been changed. Did you just hit during the make-over?
Well, this is only based on the results after searching for me, so in this case I’m defining relevant as “sites that I actually visit and are active on regularly”.
Haven’t actually tried Cuil for anything else yet, but after doing so badly with myself, I don’t think I’ll want to.
@Primal Sneeze - Theme transitions seems to have been it, all right.
Not much more enlightenment. Bears out my point about there being so few of us competent in Irish means that the PR people think that they can get away with assuming the druidic mantle of Irish wisdom.
@TheChrisD - That may be at odds with cuil.com’s philosophy. Comparing Google, Yahoo! etc. with Cuil is not comparing like with like.
@aonghus - Even though much of the core project team were Irish and may have known better, I can’t help thinking the phrase “shur the Yanks’ll never noticed” was repeated more than once.
Comprehensive evidence that some Yanks do know better
@aonghus - And comprehensive it is.
I tried Cuil and got nought coming out! - maybe still a few glitches!
@Primal Sneeze - I particularly like the train of etymology which proves - via deflowering that cuil = knowledge.
An craiceann agus a luach?
@Quickroute - Yep. Still settling. I prefer Yahoo! myself. Can you google stuff on Yahoo!?
@aonghus - That was stretching it a bit. The train, not the skin.
Using a similar process I have deduced the following: An egg is a necessity. A tractor is an invention. Therefore, an egg is the mother of a tractor.
Not quite that far, if one takes defintion #6 here for knowledge into account.
BTW, craiceann is a useful, versatile word.
It means much more than skin…
But CUIL and the like could do with The wisdom of the Gobán’s son’s wife
@aonghus - Definition #9? No?
#9 from random house, #6 from American Heritage dictionary.
I’m so archaic I overscrolled…..
I see the Speallaire in Foinse has a name for the people who brought us cuil - cuilcigh!
about sums it up.
@aonghus - Cuil hasn’t gotten much better, has it? Thanks for the definition of “cuilceach”. Horrible site though. Very 1980’s.
But excellent data.
@aonghus - True