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Long trip to Shannon

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Never ever take the Dublin to Chicago Airlingus Flight 92.

This Christmas I and the wife decided to save some time, I’ve been working in Dublin this fall, and the idea of driving to Cork to pickup the wife and drive to Shannon to catch flight 92 seemed too much work. So the wife took the train to Dublin, and we would catch the flight at Dublin after a short taxi ride. Knowing that we needed to get to the checkin early, I got us to the airport with three hours till the flight. Waiting in the nearly empty queue, watching a thousand others in their queues, I thought I was smart. We checked in with ease, and then spent the next two and half hours waiting on a plane arriving thirty minutes late. No bother we got on the plane for a thirty minute flight to Shannon, where we were instructed to deplane for an hour trip through customs.

We could have slept in and driven to Shannon and had a good lunch in less time then we wasted in Dublin. Take a bus, drive yourself, if you have to go through Shannon customs just to get to the U.S. save yourself the pain, don’t fly out of Dublin.

Bye Bye BT Broadband

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It looks like after the many exchanges of emails, I will have to drop BT as a broadband provider. They are either unable or unwilling to pursue the VPN issues I’ve been having.

When I can connect VPN to my office with a 28kbs dial-up, and can’t sustain VPN traffic on a 3MB/512kBs BT connection, it’s time to change providers. Mind you I still believe that Eircom is at the root of problem. So with that in mind, what are the options?

I’d love to hear of any good broadband providers in the Cork area!

Render all your opinions, please.

Dublin in my future

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Looks like Dublin is in my future, it’s a good thing that I only have to venture into the barest fringes, Dublin 12. Far enough out to be near the country, and near enough to test the waters of modern mass transit in the form of Luas. We will see if that coupled with the potential, and unrealized hourly high-speed trains to Cork will keep me sane while still exploiting Dublin work economics.

I hope my fellow Cork Bloggers do not disown me. And on that front, I will continue to blog during my weekends home in the Peoples Republic of Cork

Swamp Demonstration in Cork

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The City of Cork is having a demonstration of how swamps are produced in Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork this week.

Mind you, I don’t think that was their intention, but with the fountain out of commission there is no oxygenation of the pond, and hence the algae are killing the pond and creating a wonderful swamp.