Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
I have been amazed recently at the amount of people still using Internet Explorer version 6. Late last year I was delivering training programmes and out of 3 training locations, 2 were still using IE6 on some computers. This is madness, it went out with the ark, well not ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Uncharacteristic quiet on the blogging front while assessing the state of the Irish dental industry (and drawing parallels to banks and economic woes) My English dentist retired last year, so what I hear you say - so I had more years with this guy than with any other personal or ...
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
After an exhausting 4 hour shop with my niece Katharine in the Kildare Outlet Centre I collapsed exhausted (and I have shopped for Ireland in my time) into L'Officina - with just about enough energy to croak 'Green Tea please'. My appetite for green tea being the stuff of legends, ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Heard myself on Newstalk Down to Business this weekend and actually think I might be acquiring an Irish accent, which is a concern to me as a paid up Yorkshire Nationalist. However this weeks post has to be about THE speech and Biffo. Call me a bit soppy but I ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Does anyone else resent the dumping of large unsolicited office supplies brochures on their desk this week - we received two from AJ products who we have never heard of. Our office supplies people never send unsolicited brochures - we call or email them with our needs and they make ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
In the week where the battle for D4hotels.com reached the courts its worth a pause to see if in fact you do own your own domain. In the Fáilte Ireland WebCheck scheme all five service providers are finding this a potential issue, especially for .com domains - as many as ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I confess I just returned from a shopping spree in the UK. Wouldn’t go there just to shop but once over there the temptation to save tends to overpower patriotism. The spree included a vehicle from Van Monster – at about half the Irish price these guys are doing great ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Given that Ireland's terrestrial broadband is second only to Greece and Mexico as the worst quality in the developed world, how will this be affected by the news that the preferred tenderer to replace the debacle that was the rural broadband scheme is a mobile provider 3. Looks like things ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
For my weekend blog I needed to check on the winners of the aforesaid Golden Spiders so I googled Golden Spider Winners 2008 and was delighted to see John Breslin's blog as the only available source of this info. Checked again today and yes the Golden spiders site has been ...
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