Thomil's Random Ramblings

So, it’s been what, four months since Transport for Ireland began to transition the regional bike sharing schemes from the old and worn-out Coca Cola Zero Bikes branding to TFI Bikes? Well, as I’m typing up this blog post in the waning days of January 2022, this transition is still not complete which, given the governance and management of the scheme up to this point, should really come as no surprise. But just how sluggish is the rollout and how much has the system improved in those four months, if at all? Well, ever since the transition started back in October 2021 , the new TFI Bikes branding has been rolled out to the touch screens on the docking stations as well as on the website. More importantly, the mobile apps for iOS and Android, which had basically remained unchanged since 2015, were given a complete makeover and no longer look like a relic on newer iPhones. The TFI Bikes brand also began showing up on new and refurbished bikes that have started coming online in the interven...

How the hell am I even supposed to start? I didn’t even have VR on my tech radar for the foreseeable future, despite the insistence of a VR-converted friend of mine. It had simply not been on my private tech roadmap due to budgetary restrictions. I also don’t have the necessary high performance gaming PC to use it with, and none of the standalone headsets really piqued my interest. But, as things so often go, an opportunity to dip my toes into that topic almost literally dropped into my lap. You see, my current employer usually sends out a gift package containing a few goodies in the run-up to our worldwide kick-off event in January. Normally, it’s just a bit of swag but this time, among company branded socks and a t-shirt, came something else. I found out about it when my Instagram stories suddenly lit up with pictures of VR headsets. My own package took a bit longer because UPS has become mostly useless over the last couple of years but finally, on the Monday before Christmas, the pa...