School Daze
The Irish Times (sub required) published it’s Feeder Schools report today. My old Secondary (High) School performed very badly and I can’t say I’m too surprised. The report said that 30-odd people did the Leaving Cert (final school exam) in my alma mater last year and only an incredibly low 15% went to [...]
Musical recommendation
Whenever I visit Waterford city, I always try and pop into Sinnotts record shop. They have a bargain rack that sells cheap CD’s that nobody else will buy. You can usually pick up very cheap themed-CDs like ‘The best of Russian/French/German opera’.
Recently I bought two compilation CDs called ‘Holding Up Half The Sky: Voices of [...]
That’s a bit rich
Don’t ask me how I know (burp) but I bought a packet of Rich Tea biscuits yesterday and every single one of them was broken.
Is that a record?
P.S. This is pretty cool. I’m writing this from The Moorings Pub in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Eircom has a scheme where you can get free wi-fi (until next [...]
Garmin: Good customer service
Too often, we’re quick to criticise bad service and, frankly, they deserve it. However, we’re not so quick to highlight good customer service. So, I’d like to highlight some good customer service. Garmin is a good example.
I’ve had a Garmin satnav gadget for my car for the past couple of months. [...]
25,000,000
you are 1
you and me = 2
2+2=4
4+4=16
16+16=32
32+32=64
64+64=128
128+128=256
256+256=512
512+512=1024
How long do I need to do this to get to 25,000,000 people?
I’m sure that everything that can be said has already been said but I’m absolutely amazed at how much damage one can do with 2 CD’s…