Before turning in for the night I thought I'd do another trawl of the house listings online.I've been using Daft.ie up until now, but I thought I'd try something different, which was a problem.The only real competitor for Daft seems to be MyHome.ieI'm pretty sure there were other property sites floating around, but I couldn't find any with listings last night (I don't count … [Read more...] about More House Hunting Adventures
Relationships
I get on reasonably well with some of my ex-girlfriends. I wonder how well this would have worked.... (via XKCD of course..) … [Read more...] about Relationships
Auctioneers Rewrite Language
Anyone who wants to master the art of euphemism should spend time with an auctioneer, or just perusing listings of houses for sale. While I might expect someone to "upsell" a house's assets, some of the adverts are either written "tongue in cheek" or by someone with a very weird view of reality. This one amused me: Uninhabited for a number of years this detached … [Read more...] about Auctioneers Rewrite Language
ICT Excellence – Obviously Not In Web Design
The ICT Excellence awards have been announced. Unfortunately they have a website. I say unfortunately as it is truly horrendous.If this is one of Ireland's premier awards I'd hate to see what the bad ones are like.... … [Read more...] about ICT Excellence – Obviously Not In Web Design
House Hunting Fun
I was househunting again last night via DaftI work in Carlow, so I need to find somewhere that is close to Carlow, but not necessarily in the town.Unfortunately none of the property sites seems to offer a "radius" search function and I also can't filter out "sites for sale", which is really annoying.There are some nice properties for sale under 200k, but I'm still trying to … [Read more...] about House Hunting Fun