Merry Christmas…
Posted by Ronan | Filed under random
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Seize the Opportunity
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Walking down O’Connell Street last Saturday night we bumped into Jackie from the Stables Club. We hadn’t seen him for a while so stopped to say hi. He was happy to stop and chat about his new business “Spice of India”. He opened 3 weeks ago and I hope things go well from them. He brought us down to see the place, gave us menus and said when we come in ask for him.
Now he did a couple of things during our short encounter - he basically secured another 2 customers, got some free advertising (this blog entry) and showed me what good and simple customer service can do for a business. After last nights Prime Time (Service with a Snarl) on RTE 1 - a lot of companies need a lesson or two!!
Tags: Limerick, O'Connell Street, Spice of India
It’s Snowing!
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Add a little Season Greetings to Wordpress - Download the plugin and make it snow on your blog.. For those hosting off wordpress.com you can go to the dashboard and turn the snow effect on!
- Go to your dashboard.
- Navigate to Appearance -> Extras.
Tada!
Tags: Christmas, Plugin, Season
Concern Fast 2008
Posted by Ronan | Filed under concern, ireland, random
This year the Concern fast is on Thursday the 4th of December so don’t delay and register to take part right now.
If you don’t feel like fasting, remember, you can always make a donation to the fast – every €1 can make a difference to those in need.
Tags: 2008, Concern Fast
Progress - Irish Rail style
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What is progress ? Well according to the dictionary:
Movement, as toward a goal; advance.
That sounds great but the definition doesn’t give any inkling on how to measure the rate of progress. I found the above image as way of measuring progress (as an engineer I’m all about measuring and calculating) but I’m finding that actually measuring progress is a very hard thing todo, especially when other parties are part of achieving the Attainable Goal. I’m at step 1 sometimes Step 2. I think Irish Rail said it best - ”We’re not there yet but we’re getting there”.
Tags: random
undercover work over for a year
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I didn’t get a costume for the Halloween party last night so instead I wore slightly quirky clothes (odd jacket and a t-shirt with a turtle humping a hamburger ) and a badge. When people were asked me what I came as .. I flashed the badge..
Undercover Pries
Tags: badge, Halloween 08, undercover
in darkness - let there be light
Posted by Ronan | Filed under innovation, random, technology
wow - the hour goes back and BAM it’s dark at 5.30! I cycle a lot and past experience tells me - darkness and cyclists doesn’t go hand in hand. In fact cyclists and traffic, regardless of light conditions, are locked in a never ending war. Often the cyclists win the battle by scooting past traffic and jumping lights, other times traffic wins, like the occasion last Friday when a white van trying to pass a car turning right squeezes me into the curb and knocking me off.
So what can we cyclist do to be more visible? Well wearing bright luminous jackets with reflectors is a start, having lights is also a must, but there is something missing that will make drivers notice you and give you the space you have the right to occupy. I started searching around the various sites for the answer (secretly hoping not to find it). I’ve found it here at the James Dyson Award. Reactiv by an innovator Michael Chen.
The jacket uses an accelerometer that senses movement to change the colour of the LEDs in the back from green (accelerating) to red (braking). It has amber LEDs in the arms which are activated by a tilt switch behind the elbow. These light up when the arm is lifted, indicating the cyclist is about to turn.
It should be for sale by Christmas .. if you come across it - please let me know!
Tags: cool, cycling, darkness, dyson, innovation, reactiv
Clever Zyliss Ad - The best a potato can get
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- I almost want to buy this.. almost.
Tags: marketing
The job market
Posted by Ronan | Filed under ireland, random, startup
- via connie
N82 Sports tracker
Posted by Ronan | Filed under phone, random, technology
My phone (Nokia N82) which has GPS (great for receiving pinpoints) - has a handy application: Sports Tracker. It looked pretty cool so I took it for a cycle yesterday along this route.
The application can track you running, walking, cycling etc. and show you speed vs distance, speed vs time (to name a few) in handy graphs which you can save for later. It logs all your activities in a calendar so you compare your results if you run/walk the same route.You can also upload your activity to the website for all to see!
The best thing is .. it’s for free!
Tags: n82, sports tracker
