Archive for November, 2008

An Bhreatain Bheag?

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Google Maps is keen to show place names in the local language, which is why it will say “Deutschland” instead of “Germany” and “Italia” instead of “Italy”.

Which is all fine and well, but they have made a slight faux pas with Wales. Along the border with England, Wales is written as “An Bhreatain Bheag” as opposed to the more usual “Cymru”. Turns out that An Bhreatain Bheag is Gaelic for Wales!

An Bhreatain Bheag

All done!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

Finally, after just about five years of effort, my Ph.D. thesis is complete and bound! As you can see from the picture below, it’s quite a weighty tome - just over 2.2kg all together.

Ph.D. thesis

If you are bored, you can read it in PDF form here (25MB download).