Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
I moved my mobile phone service to Vodafone Ireland in November last year, onto one of their SIM only bill pay contracts. The mobile service worked fine, but for the last six months I didn’t receive a single invoice! The sign-up process for the bill pay contract seemed to go quite smoothly. A new SIM
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About a month ago we switched our current account between banks, as we were being charged really high maintenance fees, but the whole process of moving between banks hasn’t been without its problems. All the Irish banks offer a switching service that is meant to make the process of changing between banks seamless. The idea
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It’s been 9 weeks since I last sang with my choir, and I miss it dreadfully. I just wish we could get back together and make music again. All across the world, choirs have stopped singing. Cathedrals that have a tradition of daily singing stretching back centuries have fallen quiet. Chamber choirs preparing for concerts
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Following yesterday’s announcements from the Irish government about a phased reopening of society and business, it re-enforced the reality that I’m going to continue working from home for at least another three months! I really didn’t like the prospect of working from the kitchen table for that amount of time, so I decided it was
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Estimates are that around a third of the Irish workforce are currently working remotely from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The widespread use of laptops, together with corporate VPN connections and video-conference tools, has enabled entire companies to close their doors during the lockdown and have pretty-much their entire workforce continue working remotely. The technology
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Being stuck at home instead of singing in church on Good Friday, I’ve turned to my trusted Passiontide playlist on Spotify:
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This blog is written by Richard Bloomfield who lives in Dublin, Ireland. I write about stuff that interests me - technology, singing, cycling, and a myriad of other topics.
