Got my hands on these, scans a patient (88 and fought in WW2) of my dads gave to him, uploaded the PDF for all to enjoy! My German sucks, but I’m pretty sure what they’re saying is sinister!
Note this full quality scan is 53MB! If you want to view a lesser quality version, click here
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BAM! It was only a matter of time before google stuck its hand in the phone markets and now, prepare to gawk! Google Voice is giving free calls to the USA and Canada at the moment, got relatives or friends over there? You’re sorted!
But what about everywhere else? Well you have to pay a tiny-weeny amount to call there, which varies on country and if its a mobile or landline. Heres a list of the rates: https://www.google.com/voice/rates
Now because Google loves Ireland (boy does it), here are the Irish rates:
| Ireland | $0.02 (0.0157435 EUR) |
|---|---|
| Ireland – Mobile | $0.19 (0.149530 EUR) |
| Ireland – Universal Access | $0.17 (0.133790 EUR) |
its a mere freakin’ 2 cent to call a landline in Ireland! Even better, it seems Google give you a full free $0.10 to play with when you sign up or start using voice!
Now how do you use Google Voice and avail of this awesomeness? Hop over to gmail.com, login or sign up, once you’re logged in, on the left hand sidebar, there’ll be a section entitled “Chat”, click that mofo, a it will dropdown to reveal the voice option, you’ll have to install a plugin first and restart your browser, after that go back to the Chat option in gmail, click it again, click the Voice button and on the right hand side of the window the dial pad will pad will appear and HEY PRESTO, you’re prank calling businesses in the states for free! I tested it out and rang a GameStop in Torronto, froze and hung up when they actually picked up! So yeah it works! Also if you upgrade, you also get all neat features like sending texts or SMS’s to phones, a voicemail, a custom number so people can ring you and more!
This kind of technology is called VOIP or ‘Voice over Internet Protocol’, its for transferring voice or audio over the internet, through a gateway and to a phone. For a long time Skype and other companies were doing this, so really its nothing new, but free calls to the USA and Canada is BIG!
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Meet up in the Flying Enterprise Bar, Barrick Street for a few pints and a bit of chat. Afterwards we can go for a walk around Cork City, and pick up a few of the city caches (If you wish!)
Meeting from 8:30pm
Parking is available on the street outside the pub, and along the riverside. Taxis etc are also available.
More info to follow in due course.
Can finally find that freakin’ St.Finbarrs cache….
So the pasta and Italian food company, Roma, sent me their new Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour to try out. Roma pretty much did an anti-St.Patrick and brought pasta to the masses in Ireland in the 1950′s under the name Dublin Macaroni Company. Right history lesson over, lets get to the flour!
So I’m sitting here with a bag of flour infront of me. Doesn’t look special, kinda heavy, if I throw a stick it doesn’t fetch it, so whats the big deal? Imagine your kitchen as a blackboard and the Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour as the chalk, you can create so much with the flour within the kitchen! I decided to make pizza, doesn’t sound too adventurous does it? Im the guy who two weeks ago tried to bake a rasher for an hour, so yeah, making pizza was kinda a big deal!
Looking for Inspiration and the ingredients
The packaging fairly idiot proof, theres instructions on how to make pizza dough and pasta on the back and all…. I’ve just been informed the correct term is recipe, who knew? They also have a handy collection of these “recipes” on their website!
| So I start off following the recipe for pizza dough on the back of the packaging. Now the recipe was really easy to follow, nothing major. When I was making it, it was just, simple. When I had made the dough, it was the right mixture of strong and yet easy to shape, not breaking apart. kneading it and rolling it was like beating up a cloud, so soft and easy to shift. After it finished rising for around an hour, a little confusing to what knocking it back was, I lay it on a baking tray, rolled it around, BAM, added some Puree, BAM, added some cheese, BAM, added some ham, I felt pretty badass. I shoved my first ever homemade pizza into the oven preheated at 200°C and kicked backed. |  Suffice to say I had no idea what I was doing |
15-20 minutes later I came back and took out, probably the greatest thing I’ve made since pancakes, outta the oven. Despite my novice chef ‘skillz’, and that my pizza looked more like something out of a Salvador Dali painting, it tasted pretty epic, like eating candy floss, dreams and magic…. so basically like eating a unicorn or something.
You can cook the dough to a soft or crispy base, with varying levels of thickness dependent on how you like your pizza. The base stays strong and won’t fall apart on you. The Roma Flour based base really amplifies all the toppings that sit atop it. In addition to smelling nice (sounds weird), it is also really filling.
Before and after the oven…
Pizza is just one of the many things you can create with flour! You can find Roma Pizza and Pasta Flour in all good supermarkets, if not, send an angry letter to the manager of that supermarket demanding it or he’ll never see his dog again.
Epic weekend, played with DIT and Northern Conquest, will update this post later when I’m not falling asleep….
Hav’nt written a blog post on the team before so heres the time to enlighten ye all! The Cork Mayhem is a paintball team Colm, Darren and myself started. The early stages of it are another post’s story. Loads of interest from different age groups, With sponsorship from a major uk shop and in final talks with a paintball site, Ill update ye in due time!
Look at what I got to play with!
An expression of pure awe on my face right?
saw a few of these “meanwhile in…” pics on digg, thought Id add my own…
Check out meanwhile in russia…
So its been something I’ve always wanted to do, take skimboarding from the sea to the streets, tho I need had an opportunity to. On Thursday the 19th of November, the Dam in Cork released water at approximately 6pm, unfortunalty that was also high tide and then again that was increased with the massive rainfall we had. So ultimately Cork become flooded.
I had woken up at 7am per usual for school, within 10 minutes we recieved a text saying school was canceled due to flooding, after ringing Ian, we decided to head into town to photograph the damage and also maybe skimboard. I did’nt expect there to be so much water, my first encouter was seeing or rather not being able to see the restaurant in the UCC Glucksman simply because water had covered it!
I spent a portion of the motion helping people with various things, like moving stuff around, it helped as I was wearing my wetsuit (felt like an idiot walking into town in it). After a while we decided to give skimboarding a lash, heres the video of it:
After uploading the vid to YouTube, within 24 hours it had been viewed over 10,000 times! It started spreading across the net, to even a point where my cousins friend who lives in England, who only met me one saw it and emailed me about it! I was also mentioned in the news paper as a “Young student attempting to surf the streets”, as I flew past the chief excutive of the Mercy Hospital during an interview.
I’ll post more as it comes, meanwhile:
So if you’re like me, your a cheap student, not wanting to pay and go through the hassle of a credit card and whatnot, but yet you wanna buy a Zippo, a phone case or even a pair of DC Shoes on Ebay, you’re in-between a rock and a hard place, you want to buy online, but you dont want credit card hassle… I introduce you to 3V
The whole ideaolgy and whatnot of 3V is simple, its some sorta (magic)disposable credit card! First you need a 3V card, which you can register and get for free at http://www.3v.ie (This has a number on it, that is used when buying 3V vouchers, like a account number). Nowthink of a 3V voucher like phone call credit or top up, you buy a 3v voucher with a certain amount on it, lets say €20, you get a credit card number, a CCV2 (pin) number and an expiry date is sent to your phone, like everything thing a real credit card has! You can use these details when adding a credit card to Paypal or when paying by credit card method online!
So you see it works in a kinda credity-debity card way, sweet, epic, waynes world, rock on! So its pretty self-explanatory. The 3V website (http://3v.ie) is pretty god damn good in a sense it lists all the shops in Ireland supply 3V vouchers, you can check balance of vouchers online and its good a nice picture of a lemming or a meerkat or something cute, for those of you with Bright Shiny Object Disorder 
Check it out, well worth it, 5/5, 110% and all that:
http://www.3v.ie/
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