Sunday, May 31, 2009

All my Ducks in a row.


All my Ducks in a row.
Originally uploaded by despod
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Fair dues lads, just two rowing from Crosshaven.

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How tired would you be after paddling all the way from Crosshaven ?

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The leaders of the Ocean to City race 2009

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Cork Showgrounds - soon to be no more.

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RIB in Cork Harbour


RIB in Cork Harbour
Originally uploaded by despod
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Rowing in Cork


Rowing in Cork
Originally uploaded by despod
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Cork Pilots and Haulbowline


Cork Pilots and Haulbowline
Originally uploaded by despod
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New Bridge near Cork.


New Bridge near Cork.
Originally uploaded by despod
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Bird in Ringaskiddy


Bird in Ringaskiddy
Originally uploaded by despod
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"Seven Seas Voyager" in Cobh, seen from Ringaskiddy.

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Cork Pilots


Cork Pilots
Originally uploaded by despod
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Friday, May 29, 2009

BT Ireland - incompetent overcharging muppets

I started the move from BT in March and by mid-April my voice and data had completed the move. My BT bill was paid up to 23 May 2009. Lo and behold I received another BT bill for rental up to 23 July. I rang BT and they had no idea in the world that I had moved. I informed them that I had logged a query in mid-April to confirm that all was cancelled and they said there wasn't sight nor sound of it. Luckily I had the reference to give to them to help refresh their memory. So the Customer Care guy (who was pleasant and efficient btw) said that they'd have to log a fault but - and here's the killer - he was going on his fortnights holidays and the fault report would go direct to him ! Meanwhile BT would of course have the money. At this stage I decided to log it as a complaint so was pass through to another efficient-sounding guy (who gave me his name and DDI) and a ticket it being raised. I had problems years ago when I moved to BT and am now having problems leaving them. The main theme of all these problems is that I'm out of pocket whilst BT by their monumental corporate incompetence seem to be in pocket. Seems the old BT thievery goes on and on....

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Nokia Music Store - what a pile of crap.

I bought a Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and it came with a voucher for 25 downloads. I've been dowloading these over the past couple of months. I recently had to do a restore of my phone and the songs have now lost their licences and it'll cost a euro a pop to renew them. The PC version of the app can't retrieve the licences either... What a dose of rubbish.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Pont Aven about to pass through Roche's Point

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Pont Aven leaving Roche's Point - next stop Roscoff.

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Pont Aven near Roche's Point


Pont Aven near Roche's Point
Originally uploaded by despod
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Pont Aven nearing Roche's Point

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Pont Aven nearing Roche's Point (Haulbowline naval base in background)

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Pont Aven nearing Roche's Point (Cobh in Background)

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Get the spelling right ye muppets