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September 13th, 2007
Well it seems An Post located my package eventually, I guess that was just a case of sloooooowww delivery on their part, which we’re well used to here. Have to say Amazon were excellent in this case, they almost immediately offered to send out a new copy free of charge.
But I’m still waiting on the UPS/Pixmania mess to be sorted. It’s not like a box of 25 dvds is critical to me but their handling of the matter between the two of them is pretty awful and I think that’s more on the UPS side than the Pixmania side.
September 12th, 2007
How hard can it be to deliver a package from one location to another? UPS here in Ireland have somehow “lost” a small package, of 25 dvds, that I ordered from Pixmania and now An Post have somehow mislaid a book from Amazon.
The An Post one I’m hopeful still might turn up, it’s probably sitting in a collection centre somewhere and An Post are notoriously slow at times with deliveries, but the UPS one really bugs me. I missed the delivery one day and when I got hold of the guy he said he was on the way back to the distribution centre and I’d get a call the next day when they were going to deliver again. However the next morning I have an email in my inbox ( I signed up for notifications) telling me that the package was damaged and the contents were gone! No one rang me to let me know what was going on so when I eventually got in touch with them they basically said that all they had was empty packaging and that it was gone and I’d have to contact Pixmania to re-order the DVDs. What’s the most likely scenario here - to me it’s obvious, someone ripped open the package and stole the DVDs and this while it was in the UPS distibution centre overnight. Hmmm.
I got back onto Pixmania eventually and they said they’d have to check with UPS - but they can see the status from UPS’s tracking service so it’s obvious what happened. I’ve now been waiting 2 weeks for Pixmania to get back to me.
August 2nd, 2007
I’m finishing up in Interactive Services on friday and starting a new job in the College of Surgeons later in August. I’ve had a great time in Interactive and learned loads but after 7 years it’s time to move on to new challenges.
June 3rd, 2007
Building on from that last post of the street cameras in Dublin city centre, I went ahead and plotted them on yahoo maps. You can see the location of each one and when you roll your mouse over the flag it will display the latest image from that camera. Not quite google street maps but it’s a start 
It’s at www.larrymahony.com/traffic/.
April 30th, 2007
Just back from 2 weeks holidays on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Lovely spot. Click here to see a lot of photos we took.
The only flights to Madeira from Ireland are the travel agents charters on a Sunday. Club Travel or Panorama.
There are plenty of direct flights from the UK if you wanted to try make your own way there.
To read more about the island try this link http://www.madeira-web.com/
UPDATE: I’ve noticed quite a few people hitting this link searching for Madeira holiday information so I figured I’d add a bit more to it. This is back in May 07 we went. We stayed there for 2 weeks - which gave us enough time to do all the sights and tours including a trip to the lovely beach on the sister island of Porto Santo. I think in one week it would have been a bit rushed. We stayed in the Tivoli Ocean Park resort, an absolutely lovely hotel. The vast majority of the visitors are older people, many of them seemed to be return visitors so they obviously really like it. It’s definitely not the kind of island for the younger brigade (18-30) because there’s no sandy beaches on the island (that one I mentioned is a 2 hour ferry trip away) and not much in the way of late night partying. The pace of life is pretty relaxed, the temperature never gets too hot and the main source of interest on the island seems to be the flowers and plant life! The main town of Funchal, around which most of the hotels are situated, has loads of good places to eat. There’s some lovely food there including their specialities the espada fish (or black scabbard), espetada (chunks of beef on a skewer), and of course their famous Madeiran wine. Check out the photos for some sights.
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