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No More Own Homes
| View Show | Create Your Own A quote from an article here discusses where we go now with the British obsession of owning your own home as repossessions rise and banks and mortgage lenders...
Freesat PVR Ghost Ship In The Night
It’s not been long since the official launch of Freesat and take up in this short period has been good, statistically outstripping any ongoing Freeview purchases though it could be argued that m...
Video Archive: Next Week On The Tube 1985
A little snippet previewing next weeks acts on The Tube from sometime in 1985.Shame I don’t have next weeks show eh....
Do The Juicing
Person Chris Baker Right click for SmartMenu shortcuts Much as I abhore the whoring of music in the name of pushing a commercial product I am partial to this little 30 second ditty used in the name...
Get Down To Cycle Town
Image by David_Reverchon via Flickr Forgive me if the announcement of Britain’s first 11 cycling towns leaves me a little nonplussed as I know that most of those towns picked will have got on t...
A Fool For Fuel?
Yesterday’s projected 40% rise in the cost of UK domestic gas and electricity is probably not as great a surprise considering the uncompetitive state of our privatised energy suppliers, the effe...
Allo John Got Fuel For Ya Motor?
Another succinct HYS comment summing up the growing shortage of fuel caused by a combination of the tanker drivers strike and media duelled panic buying that is probably producing a very predictable o...
iPlayer Unification Imminent
The BBC’s iPlayer is to soon incorporate its radio player content in a unification of its TV & radio catch up on-line services.In addition the ability to personalise the player to your own t...
Love Hearts And Whatevers
My other half really fancied a packet of love hearts (the confectionery with messages of love etched onto them) and asked me to look out for them when I popped to the local supermarket. The best I cou...
Washing Clothes Without Water
Image via Wikipedia As household budgets get squeezed and environmental concerns play a bigger part in our future purchases an increasing focus is being thrown on our daily carbon footprint and resou...
UK Broadband Internet Voluntary Code
Image via Wikipedia Ofcom have published a voluntary code that it hopes the UK broadband Internet providers will adopt. These include being transparent with prospective customers over the actual spee...
Scaring Stupid People
It would be nice to see the Daily Mail focus on something sensible rather than have a different horseman of the apocalypse charging across the front page each day…I really can’t be bothere...
BBC Has Open Mind On Eurovision Future
The BBC apparently has an ‘open mind’ on the possibility of reducing payments to the EBU if Britain decided to or was forcibly opted out of the automatic place in the Eurovision final. Su...
Eurovision Decisions
So last night the United Kingdom came last in Eurovision. A great shame but hardly unpredictable. I thought that Andy Abraham gave a brilliant performance but sadly, as Sir Terry Wogan said at the end...
Prescription For The Music Industry
Research claims that the music industry needs to rapidly change its business model to survive. It claims that the percentage of music buyers purchasing from legal sources has fallen though music fans ...
AOL Desktop For Mac Out Of Beta
AOL has finally released AOL Desktop for Mac after several months of betas. The dedicated software can be used by anyone independent of who their Internet ISP is and brings a lot of the ‘hand-ho...
Have Your Say Light In The Darkness
Dan of London . a tiny light in the darkness of comments that can sometimes be the BBC’s Have Your Say. You and me both, Dan....
Beach Hut Bucks Housing Trend
At a time when the highly inflated price of housing in the UK has finally started to fall it is interesting , if not mind bogglingly disturbing to find that the real property developer bonanza is clea...
BBC Vs ISPs=Failure Of Free Market?
Image via Wikipedia “Didn’t England just go through this with its rail privatization? Didn’t its rail infrastructure go to the dogs? Running pipes is never a good business model. Ba...
Down On Brown
Image via Wikipedia Long before Gordon Brown finally became British prime minister after Tony Blair retired from office, I and many others had already drawn potential parallels between Brown and James...
Freedom A Question Of Money
Well, it compensates high earners! Give low earners free access to the legal system so they can tackle the prejudice against them. Freedom can be just a question of money. If you have no money and hav...
Weaning Ourselves Off The Bottle?
The sales of bottled water/spring water fell by 9% in the year to March according to an independent retail analyst though it’s hard to know if this is down to out consciences being pricked by th...
Standing On The Side Of Love
“Historically churches have been major perpetrators of injustice for gay and lesbian people and as a church that welcomes people of all sexual orientation, as both members and clergy, we feel it...
Removing The Vices
The proposal to remove cigarettes from display in Britain’s shops reminds me of the shock my partner felt upon arriving from Australia in this country and finding that alcohol was to be found in...
UK ISP Trio To Farm Personal Data
There are faint rumblings in the UK techie-sphere concerning a handful of the larger UK Internet service provider’s (ISP’s) signing up to a service called Phorm which will sit between the ...
Eurovision Masochism
Last night we wallowed in the guilty voyeuristic pleasure (?) of watching Britain’s Eurovision song contest choosing. There were some admittedly dire performances vocally but thanks to Sir Terry...
Cloned Cards And The Return Of Cash
The rise of credit and debit card fraud, skimming and card cloning has increased the use of cash transactions after years of a slow move to the cashless society. In common with many places in the UK ...
1am UK Earth Tremor
Blimey.That’s a new life experience for me. We’ve just been hit by what seems to be Earth tremors circa 1am. The radio tells a similar tale across the south east of the UK including Bedfo...
The State Benefits Of Hindsight
More checks on benefit scroungers A call for independent medical boards to be established throughout the the country to examine workshy people who claimed they were unfit for work… “Fraud ...
Boxes Bins And Fortnightly Things
A man from the council has thrown a plastic box outside our door that says “Glass Only” on the side. Another recycling bin and this one’s for glass at last. No more clanking down the...