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twitter ditch SMS updates

Dave — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:44 +0000

Read the full story on blog.twitter.com. twitter have stopped sending SMS updates. Well that renders my Sandy account useless. Whats the point in setting reminders if you have to remember to logon and check your twitter/mail??

twitter, please reconsidder or least offer a premium service to continue to allow users receive their tweets

Homer Simpson on 1 Euro coin

Coolgarriv — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:19:52 +0000

A one euro coin has turned up in Spain bearing the face of cartoon couch potato Homer Simpson instead of that of the country’s king. Spanish sweet-shop owner Jose Martinez was counting the cash in his till in the city of Aviles when he came across the coin where Homer’s bald head, big eyes and big nose had replaced the serious features of King Juan Carlos.

‘The coin must have been done by a professional, the work is impressive,’ he said. So far, no other coins of the hapless, beer-swilling oaf have been found in circulation.

Has anyone else found a Homer Simpson euro coin?

LidlTreats: Can two survive on €50 a week?

Dave — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:17:19 +0000

Just read on LidlTreats.com that they are going to try and beat the recession by living on €50 a week for all their food shopping, in Lidl

Here’s the scenario: your personal recession is REALLY biting, you are broke, broke, broke, the kitchen shelves are looking bare and it’s a whole 7 days till the next paycheck lands.

After allowing for absolute essentials like petrol or fares, rent or mortgage and a couple of drinks on Friday night, you have just €50 and some small change left. Between two of you.

So, can you feed two people for a week for around €50? And I mean feed two people well - not on cheapo pizza and stodge.

Full article: http://url.ie/juy

New site for Apple News Blog

Dave — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:03:47 +0000

have a look at Apple & iPhone Updates. They have just added the new Prologue theme to make it like a hybrid twitter/wordpress blog.

Irish Times ditches subscription service

Coolgarriv — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:17:40 +0000

The Irish Times has stopped charging people for reading its content online, and launched a new irishtimes.com website. The redesigned irishtimes.com aims to reflect the changing demands of online readers. The simplified and improved structure of the site is intended to keep pace with internet-user demand by helping readers find what they want quickly.

The new site is planned to bring readers easily from one story to another on related topics, or related websites, and it will develop many multimedia features. The restoration of The Irish Times title online is designed to make the newspaper the dominant media website in Ireland in the 21st century. The change from a subscription model to a free newspaper on irishtimes.com is a further instalment in the biggest editorial development programme in the history of the newspaper, embarked upon last February with the redesign and modernisation of The Irish Times and the launch of new supplements.

Free Stuff - Coldplay single "Violet Hill"

Coolgarriv — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:40:32 +0000

For anyone that’s interested, you can download Coldplay’s new single Violet Hill from their website http://coldplay.com All you have to do is provide an email address to which they will send you the new single (You have to provide a zip code/post code and select your country also). The file to download is approx. 5.5MB

Technorati Tags: coldplay,mp3

Finally, a howto for trackbacks

Coolgarriv — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:23:37 +0000

I have been scouring the web for weeks trying to find a decent tutorial on trackbacks or pingbacks or whatevere they are called. Now I have found it: http://www.optiniche.com/blog/117/wordpress-trackback-tutorial/

I have the basics of it, I think. We shall see.

False Advertising!

Coolgarriv — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:31:43 +0000

On the back page of April’s PC Live! there is an advert for Misco.ie. One item in the list was a DVD Player with HDMI and best of all, this item is only €39.99. So I went onto their website and began searching for this DVD player. But to no avail, I couldn’t find it anywhere. Its not like it was even listed with an “Out of Stock” notice or anything like that, it just wasn’t there. At all.

So, a quick email to their customer service/support address would sort this out. Or so I thought. First reply back from them was the ubiquitous “We will get back to you within 24 hours” email. Fair enough, everyone seems to have one of those these days. When their replay did come in, it stated they could confirm that said item DID exist on their website, and gave a link to it too.

But. There’s always a but. The link was for the UK website, which only allows UK shipping addresses. I tried a couple of the usual tricks; Register on the Irish site and login to the English site -> didnt work. Copied the URl from the English site and changed it to the dot IE version, -> didn’t work. So I emailed them back. They replied with a link to a completely different product, but at least it was on the Irish website!

Anyway, I replied again to the support email stating this was not the product I wanted.Then the reply I did not want to see, “Sorry, but that product is only available on our UK website. Sorry for the inconvenience.”. Thats great, but why advertise it in the first place in an Irish publication if you cant get it!.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

Technorati Tags: online shopping,false advertising

Climate Change?

Coolgarriv — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:29:52 +0000

"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations."
- Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the National Academy of Sciences

My Mini City

Dave — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:10:09 +0000

Build your own city!
No need to sign up, nothing to download! Follow its evolution from your web browser

coolgarriv.myminicity.com (this add +1 to your population)

coolgarriv.myminicity.com/ind (this opens a new factory and reduces unemployment)

coolgarriv.myminicity.com/tra (this improves your transport network)