Published March 27th, 2006
in free, cork and uncategorized.
Today I received an envelope from Barry’s Tea containing a free EUR 5 Book Token and a “taster” pack of about a dozen teabags.
Coming from Cork I’ve always used Barry’s Tea, but for those from Dublin used to Lion’s Tea this might attract a few new customers for the brand. This promotion must have cost Barry’s alot; the postage, the envelope, the book token, but it is admirable. All marketers know that no matter how good a product is people will only buy it if it solves some problem for them. I think that most people don’t have a “tea problem”; there is no one losing sleep over deciding which brand to buy.
Most have inherited the preference from their parents, or make an adhoc selection based solely on daily price. It is easier to appeal to the latter with a free kitkat or 20% extra free label. But the former are more entrenched, they must be convinced that a brand is superior to their current, assuming this is the case then the way to communicate the fact is with a free “taster” pack. Continue reading ‘Barry’s Tea Book Club on the Tubridy Show’
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Published March 3rd, 2006
in cork and uncategorized.
Amazon are to open a multi-lingual call-centre in Cork Airport Business Park.
The fourth estate are recycling IDA pressreleases and praising the relevant Minister, but Tom Raferty has looked at the other side of the coin.
Continue reading ‘Amazon Cork’
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Published February 16th, 2006
in ringaskiddy, industry, pollution, cork and uncategorized.
I have returned from a fact finding mission to Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, where I viewed the site for the new Crematorium. It will be on Rocky Island, which is the small island that links the two bridges leading from Ringaskiddy to Haulbowline (the postal address for Haulbowline is Cobh, but the bridge leaves from Ringaskiddy, the confusing address is because the bridge was only constructed in 1966, while the island had been in use for centuries are a military base).
I didn’t bring my digital camera, but you can see the site (Rocky Island) from this satellite image
It is noted that the speed limit through “Ringaskiddy village” is 50kmph, yet the road is unusually wide, thanks to land reclamation, while locals and local workers are careful to drive slowly it can be expected that mourners will not see the signs, just like many cars driving to the car ferry don’t, but many of those are registered in the UK and France and can avoid paying monetary fines and incuring penalty points. Continue reading ‘Ringaskiddy Crematorium’
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Published February 16th, 2006
in disklavier, piano, cork, music and uncategorized.
I’ve just finished replying to all the Valentine cards that I received a few days ago!. Also during the day I happened to hear Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso - Theme for Piano, from the 1989 Italian language film of the same name. It has inspired me to learn how to play the piano, now if only I could afford a Disklavier! (hint donations are always welcome via the Donate button on the right). Continue reading ‘I want a piano’
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Published February 14th, 2006
in bandwidth, google, cork and uncategorized.
Google Earth (the excuetable) and Google Maps (the website) are excellent. Recently I’ve been using the former to look former holiday destinations, ahh the memories.
Naturally, I had a look around to contiguous USA, from Muncie, IN (of Hudsucker Proxy fame) down to Oklahoma City, OK, very cool, well until I looked at DUMeter (a bandwitdh usage monitor) I downloaded over 3GB today! My ISP has a cap of 30GB, so lets say I won’t be using Google Earth everyday.
The default cache is 400MB, I changed it to 800MB so that should make a difference. Continue reading ‘Google Earth Bandwidth Problems’
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Published February 6th, 2006
in cork, green, environment and finance.
This is an example of cartoons being used by roads to publicise green routes, the character is based upon Eddie Hobbs, the artist is Peadar Drinan.
Continue reading ‘Cork green routes’
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