A thread on boards.ie and another on the radiowaves forum are saying that the lads behind 104FM’s Strawberry Alarm clock were escorted out of the 104FM offices today. Rumours are that they are replacing Marty Whelan. About bloody time 2FM!
All mention of the lads seems to have disappeared from the 104fm site too.
Mininova reaches their billionth download. Yes, a billion torrent files download. Scary.
Tara Hunt on the Boutique Generation. Tara Hunt is all kinds of cool. I’d suggest subscribing to her blog. Well worth it.
Bebo launch Bebo Authors – An interface to Amazon. They seem to have beaten mySpace to the punch. Surprised there hasn’t been more social networking sites doing this with the demographics they have.
Via Adam Platti 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn by Guy Kawasaki.
I now have a Wii. It’s a lot of fun and certainly can make you fit. This seems like a cool game for it.
Casio just sold their billionth calculator.
Speaking of Casio, my username for Second Life is casio Tone. Say hello. (If I ever log back in.)
Via linkmap. Celebrities get tasered. More great american TV. Eric Estrada needs to get better plastic surgeons.
9 minutes past 9 and the Ticketmaster site is saying no tickets available. Ticketmaster phone is engaged. Arghhh.
The Bebo Award, run off the Irish Awards Bebo profile is going well enough. 100 profiles have been entered. The more profiles, the better the prize. Right now the prize is an iPod Shuffle. It will turn into an iPod Nano if over 400 people are entered and it will become something a little better again if over 1000 profiles are entered. Hat tip to the marketing pilgrim.
More Gardai on the interweb. The pay isn’t great one Garda says. To start with maybe.
How to tell a friend his cat is dead.
I was speaking to God earlier today and sadly he made no mention f you.
Via BoingBoing – earbud emoticons
Podcast from two Irish fellers about football.
Blackadder, Flashheart:
Blackadder again.
Details of how to nominate your blog or someone elses.
Please pass the word along.
Bigulo – the Bebo hottie search engine. Blame this fella. 🙂
Insure.ie didn’t get my business the other day but the way they handled my blog post about them has impressed me.
Dublin bloggers better than Cork bloggers? Google thinks not.
Even the South Pole is better wired than Ireland.
Muppets – Fuck Tha Police. (On Bifsniff)
10 kick-ass opening sequencies for movies.
The French protest 2007. (BBC Story.) They want to stay in 2006.
Piaras is on the money for this one.
Get Smart Opening (first version):
The old 3-way gun trick:
Sweet, glorious specs of the 11.6 millimeter device (that’s frickin’ thin, by the way) include a 3.5-inch wide touchscreen display with multi-touch support, 2 megapixel cam, 8 GB of storage, and
3Gradio — and amazingly, it somehow runs OS X. A proximity sensor disables the touchscreen when it’s close to your face, while the iTunes support rocks CoverFlow
I so so so so so so so so sooooooooo want one.
Update: It does not have 3G as we know it. It has 3G radio, whatever the hell that is.
Update: All category sponsorship slots are gone.
It all seems to be going well with the blog award sponsorships. Here’s a list of the sponsors and the categories they are sponsoring.
Best Group Blog and Best Sports and Recreation Blog are without sponsors though I expect them to go soon.
The sponsors so far for the 2007 Awards are:
Hosting365 | Beecher Networks | pixenate.com – The online photo editor | Poetry Ireland | Technofutures | Interactions | Edge Media | FirstPartners.net | Bitzbuzz | Equisoft | Sunday Tribune | iQ Content Ltd | Edelman | logic+intuition | Clubbing.ie | Microsoft | PutPlace | Boards.ie
Jan 2007. Since I wrote the below post I’ve used Insure.ie since and they gave me an insurance quote that was 30% cheaper than my own insurance provider and for fully comprehensive and not just 3rd party. Phone service this time was more than good, it was excellent. Recommended now!
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I’m shopping around for a new insurance policy for my car so I ring up Insure.ie who are part of Mike Murphy Insurance and choose the new customer option. I get through to some guy who’s name I don’t really care to know and I tell him my renewal for insurance is due but I want to shop around and get a good deal. He tells me I am on the wrong option and without asking switches me to “Existing customer, renewals”. Grrr. I explain to the next woman, who I mistakenly called Helen, though I don’t really care, that I am looking for insurance for my car and want some prices. “Oh that’ll be the new business line”. I get moved back to the first line. I give some details and I am told I am on the wrong line and she’ll switch me. This girl is painfully fucking stupid. She doesn’t press the transfer button and instead just types the extension number into the phone so I go “eh sorry” BEEP “I think you” BEEP BEEP “need to first” CLICK. Call ends.
Insure.ie will not be getting my business. Well done them.
Update: The people from Quinn Direct on the otherhand were really good and professional except they seemed to think I was a diabetic. I wasn’t that happy that they had a file on me especially with the wrong information.
Update again: Well the complaints department for Insure.ie is proactive at least. Some nice chap (I really am shit for names) rang me to sort this issue out and offer a quote. Too late though, plenty of choice in the insurance market. The girls name wasn’t Helen either so I’ve edited this post to reflect that.
*later update
I must say I am impressed with the attitude from Insure.ie. Not sure how they found out about my blog post but they took the time to ring me and figure out what went wrong and then offered to carry out what I was looking for. Generally when I get calls about my blog posts I am usually threatened with legal action. (Thus why I list my solicitor’s details on my blog.)
It’d be great if every person who had an issue with a company got treated like this. The only better treatment is to get good service first time every time. I’ve reworded the post title from “Insure.ie – fucking useless” to “Insure.ie – Useless?” I’ve been so impressed.