Archive for January, 2008
Smoking Still Kills…
Now in response to all of the above a friend of mine would say to me - why can you just not leave anyway? I have had several answers to this at various times and they all come down to me feeling like it would be rude in the particular situation. His answer [...]
Posted: January 31st, 2008 under Fear, Just Life, Smoking.
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Smoking Kills - Never!
I smoke about twenty five per day and have done mostly for about 30 years. I keep trying to stop, trying being the pertinent word. Once I stopped for 18 months then I started again when I found out I had colitis – as I though stupidly it would help the colitis go [...]
Posted: January 30th, 2008 under Just Life, Smoking.
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AerLingus Aggressively Sells Insurance
AerLingus has recently started to aggressively sell insurance every time you now buy a flight. Instead of the usual on site offer for an insurance quote there are now three little buttons hidden within the flight booking process where you have to opt out of having an insurance quote sent to your email address [...]
Posted: January 29th, 2008 under Dublin, Just Life, Travel, flying.
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Mobile Broadband
I have just set up mobile broadband. I have had it running for three days now and I am amazed. I have been using Eircom for the last year and it sucks - I think it has to be the slowest broadband in the whole of Europe. The speed was 824kb per sec. [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2008 under Just Life, Web Sites.
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Living in Ireland
I have lived here on and off over the last ten years and Ireland has been good to me. It was hard in the beginning moving country, not knowing people, not having friends here, but that has changed and this feels like home.
Anyway I was playing around with a domain name for the last [...]
Posted: January 21st, 2008 under Web Sites.
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Saturday Morning
Saturday Morning and I sit as usual in front of my computer. I have a new site on Glendalough which is doing well and I like - that last part always seems to help. Writing these days has been hard going - I would much rather be out walking than building my websites [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2008 under Just Life.
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Conemara - Ireland - Photo
Just a photo from one of our visits last year to the West coast of Ireland. It can be a wild place - great for getting away from the city. I kinds feel like that kind of break could be due very soon again.
Came across an interesting blog recently. The Rambling Traveler [...]
Posted: January 18th, 2008 under Ireland.
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Monday Again - Smoking?
The month is disappearing far too quickly. I have hardly got started on my plans for the month and I seem to have an inbuilt resistance to finishing - or even working on - one particular project. Oddly enough it is a project that has the potential to make some nice money long [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2008 under Just Life, Smoking, Work.
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Holiday Plans 2008
We have been trying to decided where we want to go on holiday this year as we want a holiday that is a big holiday for us. We had look at the prices of flights to Canada and then came across other flights to South Africa that look interesting for us. I know [...]
Posted: January 14th, 2008 under PP, flying.
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Indexing Problems
I have started a website a few months ago Blueberry Recipes and have been driven mad by it and therefore ended up leaving it with little done. So who or what is driving me mad? Google as usual. In sitemaps they tell me that they are not able to access the urls - [...]
Posted: January 13th, 2008 under Just Life, SEO, Web Sites.
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