I travel quite a bit for work. Along the way I naturally accumulate a mixture of both personal and business expenses. Of course a lot of my travel is booked via the company and paid for using either a company credit card or via one of our suppliers who invoices us directly. So this kind of receipt from Aer Lingus makes my head hurt: You'd think that I'd just paid them … [Read more...] about Misleading Receipts Make Me Sad
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Moving House and Keeping my Contact Details Current
Over the past couple of weeks I've been focussed on both sorting out issues with the new house and moving my stuff into it. The proverbial light is now visible at the end of the tunnel. If everything goes according to plan I'll be finally moving in to my new abode this weekend. I'll still have to spend a few days sorting out the outstanding bits and bobs, but my "plan" is to … [Read more...] about Moving House and Keeping my Contact Details Current
Irish Water Doesn’t Quite “Get” Online
Over the past year there's been a very heated debacle around the entire subject of water charges in Ireland. Personally I think the government managed the entire thing really badly, but it looks like it's been more or less resolved now. Sure, some people are still very unhappy and are continuing to demonstrate against the charges, but I suspect quite a few people have simply … [Read more...] about Irish Water Doesn’t Quite “Get” Online
AIB Irony
AIB is one of Ireland's largest banks. I use it for my personal banking, while the company also uses them for pretty much everything. I've had my issues with them in the past. Most recently their rather "nutty" handling of phone calls has really peeved me. You can read more about this here. Short version - bank rings customer to check if charges are valid, but does so … [Read more...] about AIB Irony
Setting Up A Personal Budget With YNAB
A few times over the last few years I've tried to setup and track my personal budget. I know I should do it, but it's one of those things I've always been really bad at doing. So a couple of days ago I decided to fix this situation once and for all. I'd already tried a few desktop applications for tracking expenses etc., but the problem with them all was that they weren't … [Read more...] about Setting Up A Personal Budget With YNAB