16
Jan
2009

Cancelling Setanta Sports (UK/Ireland)

A good few visitors have come across my blog searching for cancellation instructions/experiences, so here’s my take on it, having cancelled recently. This information is relevant to Setanta Sports UK & Ireland (not sure what process is in place for US / Australia), and it’s only for satellite (not NTL/UPC cable) customers.

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10
Jan
2009

Bruce Springsteen preamble to The River, LA 1985

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In my annual desktop tidy up, I came across this transcription of mine of Bruce Springsteen’s preamble to the live version of The River on the Live 1975-1985 box set. I can’t remember if I had help, but I don’t think I did (and a quick Google tells me not).

A crackin’ version of The River, it has to be said! Enjoy!

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17
Dec
2008

Buenos Aires Grill quick review

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If you’re a steak fan, then you’ll want to try out Buenos Aires Grill! I’m a chef’s nightmare in that I like plain food, and I like my meat well cooked. However, I’ve found that you can pretty accurately judge a restaurant by the way it presents well-cooked meat! Whether your a bleeding or burnt steak fan, you’ll enjoy the steaks here, and it’s worth a visit.

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15
Dec
2008

“There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama” goes platinum.

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OK, maybe not quite platinum just yet, but further to my earlier post with the lyrics to “There’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama”, there’s been a few developments.

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2
Dec
2008

Someone should tell Nokia Ireland about the new N97

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Somebody should tell Nokia Ireland about the N97 because a search of their website for ‘n97′ reveals no results despite the internet being awash with coverage of the major Nokia release.

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