Vodafone data charges

I was out of the office so used my mobile as a modem.

Its a scandal! For 32mb I was charged €82 exclusive of VAT. This gives a grand total €99.25.

New residential broadband packages up to 15mbps from Smart Telecom

Mobile data charges maybe excessive but I'm averaging down with my upgraded smart telecom package.

I now have 15mbps download, line rental, and voice package for €80 a month. All this with 1:1 contention, and no monthly download cap. Compare this to eircom's 12mbps business package: €169 per month exclusive of VAT (€205).

NB: Eircom's residential max is 4mbps at the moment.

Gulp - Data charges

Update: I got my origanal sums wrong! I used 0.05 instead of 0.005 for calculating the per kilobyte charge. Its still expensive though. Thanks to Eddy for pointing it out. I have updated accordingly.

Sometimes I keep my 3 year old occupied in the car by letting him watch spiderman cartoons on Youtube via the Nokia N95.

If my calculations are correct and the prices listed of 2c per kb (VAT inc) up to 512 kb / 0.5c per kb over 512kb I'm in trouble.

That would mean I have to pay €12.80 for every 1mb downloaded!

kilobytes	price per kb	price
512	€0.02	€10.24
512	€0.005	€2.56
		€12.80

Ruby Ireland Slideshows

I've added a sidebar to this blog which contains the Ruby Ireland presentations posted on slideshare. I'll try and keep adding the slideshows as they're given as long as the presenter is okay with it.

The latest one is SSH lightening presentation; which was given by David J Rice.

He also spoke about the start up he's involved with - Howcast. They launched last week and it looks fantastic.

XTech 2008 in Dublin

There's an increasing amount of technology meetup and conferences happening in Dublin - Community and Commercial.

XTech 2008 is another in the coming months that looks interesting.

An Post Customer Services Helpline

I just rang the number 1850 575859 to track a passport express application. Recorded message:

Welcome to An Post customer services. Our offices are now closed we will reopen on Tuesday the 10th of April.

Thats some christmas break :)

Block Facebook Beacon

Here's how http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beacon/