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Taste testing is a tough job

I'm still stuffed as I sit in work. We had a taste testing session for Sam&Dan's last night while watching a shocking Irish performance in the rugby World Cup. (Thank God I'm from New Zealand, go on the All Blacks!!)

Any way, we had about 8 different brands of hot dogs to try. I know it sounds like such a tough job, but hey, someone’s got to do it.

I made up the hot dogs for everyone, which was a Bun, dog, cooked onions, ketchup and mustard, there should also have been cheese as well, but Keith forgot it. ;-)

I cut up the dogs into small bits so we could all manage to get through the 8 brands. I thought there might be a big argument as to what is the best but in the end there was a clear favourite. Everyone preferred the same brand.

Next on our list is to decided on different types of hot dogs that we will be looking to make. We are looking at chill Dogs at the moment, but we would all like to have a few more options as well.

If there is any Dogs that people have had before or flavours that people think would be nice, please drop me an email.

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New Blackberry for me!

Last Wednesday I decided to treat myself to a new gadget. So one quick trip to the Vodafone shop and I walked away with the new Blackberry Curve.
I have to say it's savage, I love it. The phone I just replaced was the old Blackberry brick, the 7310v. The Curve is a lot lighter, and even though it has a full QWERTY keyboard its much smaller in the pocket. It also has a microSD card, so I can increase memory, plus a 2.0 megapixel digital camera. I sadly missed the camera option on my last phone. I remember when phones started putting camera's in them. I thought what a pointless thing to have on a phone, but I'm glad I have it back. Plus this camera is actually good and the flash is great as wellThe other cool extra feature the Curve has is the built in GPS. I gave it a go on Washington Street and it picked me up no problem, and as I walked along it was spot on, as I crossed the road and headed down Northmain St I could follow my progress on the phone. The GPS works with the onboard Blackberry Maps which is handy.

The other great app I downloaded the other day was Viigo. It's a RSS reader. So I signed up to all the RSS feeds I like. Now when ever I'm waiting for a meeting or just killing time having coffee I can check up on all thats going on. It's proving really handy as I used to waste so much time when I turned on the laptop, and instead of working away I would be checking all the feed and before I knew it 1 hour would have passed. RSS is almost as bad as digg another site which eats time.

The Curve comes with all the other stuff, that if you have had a Blackerry that you would be used to, like IM messagers Email all that sort of stuff.

The best thing is that you get a CD in the box that has software to upgrade Blackberrys. So if you have a Blackberry and you get a new one it transfers over everthing. It was simple and fantastic, took about 10mins and I was back up and running. If your looking at a new phone and something to help run your life or maybe just a cool gadget go for the Blackberry Curve you won't be disappointed.

You can check out all the features of the phone here.

Tags: Blackberry | Gadets

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The new Logo

Here is the logo that we have decided to go with for the new shop.

We wanted to go with something fun and bright, plus the whole USA Red, white and Blue hotdog thing has been done to death. I would be interested in seeing what people think of this one.

Tags: Business | Cork | ideas | SamandDan's | Venture

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