And I’m the mug. Boyle Sports had a “we’ll match your deposit” offer a while back, so I decided to fire in a tenner and play the geegees with tips from the Horse Racing forum on Boards.ie as my sole point of reference, as a sort of experiment.
Long story short, I blew my last €7.36 today on a long shot, and the experiment is a resounding failure. Fun though.
According to Snopes, more collect phone calls are made in the US on Father’s Day than on any other day of the year. What horrible people. Be interesting to see relevant figures for Europe or Ireland though.
Kerry this weekend. Lots of photos to come, but this is one of my favourites.
Photo taken at the beach in Garryvoe a couple weeks ago, just found it. Sorry about the quality, all I had with me was my phone. The sign says Toilets. Note the direction.
…for maintenance according to Google, since the 13th according to Wikipedia, forever according to Digg (apparently they stopped taking payments two days ago, but this wouldn’t be the first time). Interesting. I don’t use it very much, but I’d miss it if it went. And I’m constantly surprised at it’s continued existence…
In case you missed it, from USA TODAY:
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
$12m! Might as well just slap them on the wrist. From The Boston Globe:
Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, settled a payola investigation with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for $12 million and agreed to stop bribing radio stations to secure airplay for its artists.
Read my comments on this post on Michele Neylon’s blog if you want to know why.
If agencies hype the importance of branding campaigns for public companies to enhance their image among investors, why is it that Interpublic, Omnicom, Publicis and WPP don’t support their brand images on Wall Street?
According to Nielsen Monitor-Plus, the four holding companies spent a total of $3.7 million to promote themselves in the U.S. in 2005, down 15% from the $4.4 million they spent in 2004.
Considering that agencies recommend their clients spend 10% of their revenues on marketing, the big four are spending .01% of their combined $29.3 billion in global revenue. Mull that for a second or two.
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