I'm heading over to Rome next week to attend a friend's wedding, but being a small bit disorganised I only got round to organising the trip in the last couple of days.Rome is the capital of Italy. Dublin is the capital of Ireland. You would think that in 2009 the cost of getting between two capital cities wouldn't be horrendous and that you'd have a reasonable number of "sane" … [Read more...] about More Aer Lingus Stealth Charges
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Scaremongering Stupidity
At some time in the last couple of months an Irish website got hacked and its member database was stolen. The database contained email addresses and the associated passwords to login to the website. The list of email addresses and these passwords was published on a website which has since been taken offline (though you could find it in Google's cache as recently as 48 hours … [Read more...] about Scaremongering Stupidity
SocialMediaExpert.ie Goes Live
I have odd ideas during the middle of the night... The other night while chatting with a couple of people about social media "experts" and other snake oil types I went checking domains ... SocialMediaExpert.ie was available (as were a few other extensions), so I grabbed it. James from Forbairt Media did a wonderful job on the design and layout (if you don't like it blame my … [Read more...] about SocialMediaExpert.ie Goes Live
Irish Political Party Plagiarise BBC But Think They’re Cool
The BBC have a serious online presence which probably costs them a fortune to maintain every year.None of the Irish political parties have an online presence that comes anywhere near it (and you wouldn't really expect them to either... )But when an Irish political party blatantly rips off the BBC's design and thinks they can get away with it, what kind of message does that … [Read more...] about Irish Political Party Plagiarise BBC But Think They’re Cool
Before You Hit Send
I send and receive a lot of email (I've mentioned this more than once in the past).In order for an email to catch my attention it needs to be engaging at some level. It doesn't need to be an artistic masterpiece, but something clear and engaging. Yet again today I got an email which was the exact opposite of this...To start with the subject line was a disaster. Starting the … [Read more...] about Before You Hit Send