Casio UK Service dreadful
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, February 9, 2007
AllFreeCalls.ie - Free international calls from Ireland
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, February 9, 2007
Geeky thought about an Irish-English/English-Irish dictionary
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Sometimes you forget
That Prince is a Music God. And then you see this:
Superbowl XLI half-time show.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, February 6, 2007
What next? Burberry buys the Corsa division of Opel?
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, February 2, 2007
We've got the decorators in
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, February 1, 2007
De Cecco doesn't have to worry
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.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, February 1, 2007
Exciting reads for 7-year olds in Irish?
Oscar is a bright kid who loves to read. His favourite novel is Le Catalogue d’Argos. In fact he loves the Horrid Henry series (and other similar ones). The only subject he is weak in is, surprise surprise, Irish. Unlike Oisín and Sibéal, he never went to Naoinra so started on it cold in junior infants. We’re hoping to get him into Irish as a bit of a challenge but the books have to engage him.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, January 25, 2007
I didn't even know they had split up
Just spotted on the BBC that The Jesus and Mary Chain are re-forming to do some festival. I bloody loved that band. Psychocandy is in my top ten albums of all time. I remember playing it to my friends in 1985 and they all laughed at me. “But it’s just noise Conor”. “Wait, just wait, you’ll see. This is genius”.
Any movie that uses their music gets an instant thumbs up from me.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, January 25, 2007
Traffic Lights on Food - give me patience.
It appears the opposition parties have started their campaign to lose the next general election with their latest himbo/bimbo scheme which they picked up from the UK. They want traffic lights on food to indicate the levels of salt, sugar and fat. Not only are the stuck in the 1980’s with the fat obsession, but they show such a basic mis-understanding of human nature that the scheme was obviously devised by a marxist.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, January 25, 2007