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How to lose all your customers if you are a WISP
First off I better explain what a WISP , it means Wireless Internet Service Provider. For this sorry tale the WISP in question is OceanTelecom who operate in West Waterford/East Cork. I got a call the other day from my friend’s wife who was having problems receiving mail from her eircom.net account when using POP [...]
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Tardy
I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]
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So sue me
Apparently just by copying & pasting the quotes below I can be fined up to €25,000 as The Republic of Ireland’s utterly draconian blasphemy law has come into effect just a couple of hours ago. I’m an equal opportunity offender though so courtesy of blasphemy.ie here is as much blasphemy as I can copypasta. List [...]
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Synergy
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines synergy as “a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatibility of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)” Anyone with any experience in a workplace will know it as a management buzzword that smacks of horseshit. When asked to define what synergy is you would invariably get the reply “1 [...]
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Things I’m not allowed to buy my son for Christmas
Lucas is two but some ground rules have been laid out already as to what I cannot buy him for Christmas this year: A model Tie Fighter. A model Millenium Falcon or indeed anything related to Star Wars. Anything to do with Star Trek. Anything to do with Stargate. A new MacBook. Anything to do [...]
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Last two years are a blur
It’s Lucas’s second birthday today but as it’s Monday we had a bit of a party for him yesterday instead. He’s a happy little man with his new tricycle!
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I’d give it 8 out of 10
As illnesses go the flu is a nasty bugger. I haven’t had it myself in years as I used to get regular vaccinations at work. So for the first time in years and for exactly a week now I have been freezing cold one minute, roasting the next. I’ve been shaking, coughing and wheezing. Unable [...]
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Ladybird in the garden
The end of October is almost here but despite the evenings getting cooler and the nights closing in, our garden is still in bloom. This afternoon Lucas was pointing at something on the floor and it turned out to be a Ladybird. I picked it up and he was fascinated watching it crawl around my [...]