Category: Personal
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Funny cartoons in the making
If you are a fan of cartoons, FrankP has posted a fascinating post on how he puts together the funny cartoons on Bifsniff.com – well worth a look.
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Pink Floyd at Live8
I love Pink Floyd and I was in awe when I saw then play together once more at the Live8 concert last weekend. Now AOL has put up a site where you can see highlights from the Live8 concert – the Floyd songs are: Breathe Money Wish you were here and Comfortably numb If you…
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Virtudes Marquez Villergas 1931-2005 RIP
Virtudes Marquez Villergas was my mother-in-law. She died last week (on Sunday 12th June) in her home in Seville, Spain unexpectedly. Her loss is felt profoundly by all who knew her – she was, without doubt, one of the warmest, most generous and fun-loving people I have had the privilege of knowing. The world was…
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How to get positive results from calls to support hotlines/callcentres
I have a method I use when calling support hotlines which rarely fails to get me a positive outcome from the call – I call it the Squeaky Wheel method (remember the squeaky wheel is the one which gets the attention). At all times using this method I ensure that I remain completely polite but…
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Violence in Cork
I was walking down Washington street in Cork near the Kino cinema at 5pm this afternoon when out of the corner of my eye I spot a fracas on the opposite side of the street. I glance over and see what appears to be a couple of women fighting. As I’m pointing it out to…
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Vatican changes its view on euthanasia
“Who can judge the dignity and sacredness of the life of a human being, made in the image and likeness of God?”; “Who can decide to pull the plug as if we were talking about a broken appliance?” so wrote L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper referring to the debate around the case of Terry Schiavo.…
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Tomás Donato Raftery Carnicero is 2 today!
Today is my son’s birthday – happy birthday Tomás! Isn’t he beautiful?
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Site undergoing maintenance shortly
This site will be undergoing maintenance between 15:00 and 15:20 gmt today 14th of March 2005. Downtime will be kept to a minimum but expect unexpected behaviour during that time. Apologies for any disruption. Tom