Stuart Kenny

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Software Engineer working in digital preservation. Railway enthusiast.
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Spotted Redshank at Rogerstown Estuary.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #RogerstownEstuary #nature

Didn't manage any decent photos of Red Kites at the Red Kite walk in Avoca, so made do with a couple of Robins.

#birds #BirdPhotography #Robins #Wicklow #photography

A dog walk when your dog likes to chase flies and sniff everything. #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs.

Impressive fly hunting from a duckling.

#BirdPhotography #Birds #Photography #DucklingsOfMastodon #Duckling

So my 7-year-old daughter loves point-and-click adventure games; we've been playing old MS-DOS LucasArts and Sierra titles together, and we're about to finish Legend of Kyrandia Book One. It's wonderful.

She's also obsessed with Minecraft and just learned about Minecraft: Story Mode. I didn't know what it was, and it was quite a rabbit hole for me to fall down.

So obviously, I'm very late to this, but Minecraft: Story Mode is a series of point-and-click titles from Telltale Games that came out in 2015 and disappeared in 2019. A Netflix "interactive" version of some content was available until 2022. Telltale shut down, the DRM servers are shut down, and now it's gone forever? There's no way to buy this for her?

I already champion preservation efforts for older games. And it's not like this is multiplayer and needs servers running. This is what we do with new art when it's sold digitally--we throw it in the garbage?

"Your order is en route. It will be delivered by translation missing: en.shipping_provider.PPBBT."

You know I'm starting to think this online order was not a great idea. Also considering it was made 2 months ago.

🇨🇭 French-language advertising poster for the Jura-Simplon Railways in Switzerland, designed by Hugo d’Alesi in 1895.

#Hugod’Alesi #MadeInEurope #Switzerland #Schweiz #Swiss #Suisse #poster #posters #art #artwork #vintage #publicdomain #travel #tourism #rail #railways #landscape

Usually if something is down for a long time and no-one complains you leave it off, but I fell into the trap of wanting to know what was wrong. So should you be looking for MoTIF, Pilot Thesaurus of Irish Folklore it's back at https://apps.dri.ie/motif

#Folklore #Thesaurus #Irish

MoTIF Pilot Thesaurus of Irish Folklore

MoTIF is a collaborative project undertaken by the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the National Library of Ireland (NLI). The project aim was to produce guidelines on the construction of thesauri for librarians, archivists, museum professionals and other information professionals. These guidelines will act as a comprehensive introduction to thesauri and provide guidance on the construction of thesauri using facet analysis. The guidelines are illustrated by MoTIF, the pilot thesaurus of Irish folklore.

MoTIF Pilot Thesaurus of Irish Folklore

🇨🇮 Vintage travel poster of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland promoting the line from Galway to Clifden in the Connemara region (Irish: Conamara). Designed by Hugo d'Alesi ca. 1900.

#Ireland #Éire #Galway #Clifden #Connemara #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #travel #tourism #ArchitecturalRevival #heritage #rail #railways #travelposters #poster #vintage

A nice pre-Christmas present from Brian Coghlan in TCD - documentary reminder that @DIAS_Dublin and TCD constructed what were probably the first Beowulf clusters in Ireland back in 1997.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/hardware/TCD-SCSS-T.20121208.094/TCD-SCSS-T.20121208.094.pdf