What the hell is going on in Waterford? I mean, I can understand being upset at losing your job but staging a sit-in? What are they demanding? To be let back to work? I just don’t understand the mentality. The company is losing money hand over fist so I can only assume that these workers [...]
A quick post of a graph I knocked up showing the distribution of price difference from dualpricing.ie: It seems that 35% price difference (after VAT and currency are already accounted for) is the sweet spot for most retailers. I wonder if this is based on economic fact or just because Irish consumers are trained to [...]
My initial impressions of IGOPeople were not terribly good: From my impressions of their homepage and initial signup, I thought that this was just another social network. Unfortunately, what makes any social network great is the people on it — hence Facebook is a “good” social network because most of your friends are on it. [...]
Firstly, I should mention that I wasn’t trying to push dualpricing.ie too hard. It’s just a side project and, frankly, thousands of visitors is probably going to cause me problems that I don’t want to spend money or time fixing. However, I was quietly hoping that the site would be useful and interesting to someone. [...]
Energizer are the default rechargeable batteries that you’ll find in any shops — but they’re crap. They need charging before you can use them and you can’t just leave them charged up on the shelf ready for use because they’ll lose their charge so quickly. Inevitably, when the TV remote or children’s toy runs out [...]
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