Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
Joy of joys! I now have broadband, and can waste time at a much faster speed than before. For the last six or seven months I’ve been making do with different wireless internet connections – all of which have been pretty flaky. With slow download speeds and dropped connections, its kind-of criminal that they sell
Continue readingThe farce continues with the NTL DVR installation. Following two failed installs on Monday and Tuesday this week, I was assured on Tuesday afternoon that a DVR would definitely be installed “first thing tomorrow morning” (Wednesday). Well it’s now Wednesday afternoon, and guess what? Yup, you got it. Nobody came, and the number of failed
Continue readingI find it interesting that our broadcast of Choral Evensong last Sunday has sparked off so much debate on the BBC Radio 3 Message Boards. It’s great that people feel so passionate about their church music (because it’s a passion I share), but I had no idea that folk would pour over every detail of
Continue readingI’m presently taking a break between work contracts, which fits in nicely with the busy run up to Christmas. It’s good that, when I’m so busy on the evenings and weekends, that I can chill out a bit on week days. However, my new-found gentleman of leisure status does afford me the opportunity to indulge
Continue readingYou wouldn’t believe the amount of grief I’ve been experiencing from NTL (also known as UPC) over the last week or so. I called them a couple of weeks ago, to get my digital TV subscription moved from to my new address. And as part of the deal, I wanted to also order Broadband internet
Continue readingAs I had a bit of spare time today, I decided to have a go at relaunching this blog, using the same design as my old UK blog at bloomfield.me.uk. It’s going to take a while to get everything working correctly, but I hope you’ll all bear with me in the interim.
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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.
