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It’s bloody started already!
It’s the middle of October.The 16th of October to be precise and I’ve just seen a flaming christmas ad on the T.V. Sadly it was for a funiture supplier so it seems they haven’t bothered taking any notice of Grandads Open Letter to them. It seems that the marketing droids are determined to Americanise all [...]
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Feeling the pinch as a result of the budget?
As we all have pretty much screwed seven ways from Sunday with the latest budget here is a picture of what most of us can expect to be eating for the foreseeable future. Took this photo at the Youghal Medieval Day last year.
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Mixed emotions
Waterford were beaten as you all no doubt know by now. I guess it was to be expected but no doubt no one expected the wholesale slaughter that ensued. I’m sticking with my theory that the entire Waterford team were fed an dodgy curry for breakfast. To be honest that is how they looked on [...]
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Ryanair’s quirky management style
Almost everyone has a complaint about Ryanair or even several complaints but regardless, more and more people are flying with them. I’ve only ever flown with then three times myself, twice in 1998 and once from Dublin to Cork last year. It’s fair to say that the experience was pretty much what I expected and [...]
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Who makes up these surveys?
Just spotted this on breakingnews.ie. Apparently us Irish spend three times more on alcohol than other Europeans. That wouldn’t be because alcohol is about three times more expensive here than in the rest of Europe no?
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You know it’s warm outside when..
The fans in ones servers step up a few gears. It’s getting a bit loud in here and I can barely hear myself think. Of course it’s getting quite warm in here too. I think it is time to consider relocating my servers to a nice cool empty closet.
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Want proof Vista is crap?
Then read what Microsoft’s Windows Boss thinks. It’s not good. Stephen Sinofsky who is the man in charge of developement of Windows has as much as admitted that it’s a piece of crap. Choice quotes are: The Vista Ready logo program required drivers available on 1/30. I think we had had reasonable coverage, but quality [...]