Conor's Bandon Blog

A treasure trove of proper Italian food at great prices <div> Review of <span class="type">Business</span>, <span class="item vcard"> </span><span class="fn org">The Boot's Specialities</span> <div class="street-address">Unit 21, City Link Park, Forge Hill, Kinsale Rd</div> <div class="locality">Cork</div> <div class="region"></div> <div class="postal-code"></div> <div class="country-name">Ireland</div> </div> <div> <div class="stars" title="5">  </div> </div> <div class="description"> I heard about this deli over three years ago and have been meaning to go since. The story was that they had great Italian food but at non-ripoff prices since they are also a wholesalers.

I decided to try out AllFreeCalls.ie this afternoon. I had to ring Casio Customer Support in the UK about my poxy unfixable watch and my guess was that it would a longish call. I rang the access number and a voice told me that I would be charged at local rates and to enter the number I wanted. I entered the UK number and got through to the queuing system in Casio immediately.

You lovely lovely people have got me into the voting round in four categories in The Irish Blog Awards! I’m blushing just thinking about it. Thank you. Now the number of votes really counts in this round so head on over to The Voting Page and give me your first preference vote in the following categories: Best Blog Post Best Personal Blog Best Technology Blog/Blogger (I think this is my Argolon Blog mixed with LouderVoice) Best Business Blog (my Argolon blog) Thanks again you gorgeous, thoughtful, deeply intelligent blog angels.

I bought a nice Casio Waveceptor watch about 18 months ago from a great discount online store in Wales called The Time Zone. It’s a combined analogue/digital job and syncs the time using those big transmitters scattered around Europe. The watch worked fine for a few months and then the analogue bit started losing hours and hours. I returned it to Casio UK who replaced the battery and sent it back.

Some of you may have heard about AllFreeCalls which allows people in the US to call internationally for the price of a call to Iowa (often free). This is a service run by a great guy called Pat Phelan in Cork. Well they’ve just gone and extended it to Ireland. If you have one of those free national calls packages that most of the telcos like Eircom and BT here provide, then you can call international numbers for zero cost using AllFreeCalls.

Our start-up LouderVoice got a nice mention in the Irish-language daily newspaper Lá. We were at an un-conference called BarCamp Ireland South-East in Waterford and Conn Ó Muíneacháin did a nice write up about it. Due to my desperately rusty Irish, I had to make use of this online dictionary to translate some of the words. Whilst it is a great resource, it seems to be lacking a huge number of words and also only seems to handle the roots of of words (or whatever it is called i.

That Prince is a Music God. And then you see this: Superbowl XLI half-time show. Technorati Tags: Superbowl, Superbowl+XLI, Prince

I don’t know whether this is good or bad news, and either way it has no impact on my life, but Lous Vuitton is buying Aston Martin. Sure they are both luxury brands but mixing handbags and camshafts - I’m just not sure. It smacks of one of those “synergy” horrors which used to be so common. Maybe Daniel Craig will sport a man-purse in the next Bond movie. Hopefully they’ll do something about the rear-end of all recent Astons which to my eye are identical to a mid-1990’s Mazda.

Ignore all the messing you see on this blog. Doing a bit of a revamp and tidy up and trying out the sooper-de-dooper Snipperoo Widget system for the sidebar. Normal service will return shortly.

My sister Orla bought me a pasta machine for Christmas and I finally got around to trying it out on Saturday. Myself and Sibéal decided to make a mix of tagliatelle and spaghetti. Neither of us had made it before and her excuse is that she is only 3. I had the usual recipe problem of not knowing which one to use. Jamie Oliver’s Italy book said 6 eggs and 600g of flour and that’s it.