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- December 31st, 2009
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Damn Irritating Family Award
My Award for the Most Irritating Family of the ‘Noughties’ goes to Richard, Verona and Rachelle Strauss of Langhope, Gloucestershire. Until yesterday I had never heard of them and probabl…
- December 29th, 2009
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Saving over Christmas
I think its probably fair to say that saving money is pretty hard. Over Christmas is a time for Spending money it seems and not really worrying about how much money you will have at the end of the mon…
- December 23rd, 2009
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Gadget of the Week
Often I come across a product where I think ‘Cool, that definitely has its uses..’ I guess in many ways I’m (like most people) fairly selective about which products I choose to use o…
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Sifting Through Weathered Photo Albums
Looking back through Old Photographs, digital obviously, led me to a few pictures of a holiday my family went on a few years ago in Southern Ireland. Which has to be remembered as the type of holiday…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Making furniture look good again
This Christmas I have un-upholstered furniture to look forward to when I return home to the nest for the festive season. Everything else will be nice: the younger brother is home from playing war game…
- December 21st, 2009
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Album of the Week – Buck 65
♫ I’d visit father Bob and he would show me his train set, tell me a story, offer me a glass of milk send me on my way with a question to ask myself the rain didn’t bother me, the se…
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Twitter infiltrating everyones lives
In the last couple of weeks its become more and more obvious as to how much of a ‘necessity’ Twitter has become for some. With the Mother who ‘Tweeted’ as her son lay dying in…
- December 18th, 2009
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Where to Go next Year?
Life in the last couple of weeks has taken a a funny turn. It’s been pretty interesting and fair to say that I’m definitely looking forward to the opportunities that could be be around the…
- December 17th, 2009
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Moving House with a Big Van…
Moving house is an inevitability which most people will have to endure perhaps at the very least 3 times during their entire life. I’m currently on 3 and I have not yet hit the mid 20’s so…
- December 16th, 2009
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Low Interest Rates eh?
David Prosser at the Independent has written this interesting article on how people with savings are constantly being let down by interest rates Back in the good old days, before the credit crunch an…
- December 14th, 2009
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C’mon Man!
There is something I simply love about this picture of a man and Pikachu and the horrible feeling it evokes of childhoods gone by and wasting money on the incredible “investment” of Pokemo…
- December 9th, 2009
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Suing The King
How often do you receive a spammy text message to your phone? I perhaps receive one every few months and simply ignore them and they generally never send the same message again. However, is there some…
- December 8th, 2009
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Album of the Week
This weeks “Album of the Week” comes from Yeasayer a band I heard on the radio a few month ago at the time I hated the band/song and thought it was pretty lame. Whilst my band was away on…
- December 7th, 2009
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A Word of Warning.
An interesting article popped up on the Independent today on the problem gig goers are facing in terms of having their phones stolen whilst bands are playing. Music-lovers watching their favorite acts…
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The Advantages of PAYG
In many ways I struggle to understand why people use contract deals on telecoms goods if only for the free ’stuff’ they get for signing away up to two years of their life. Its understanda…
- November 30th, 2009
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Fake Products?
There is something I love about the fake products which you receive at Christmas from your rich Auntie/Uncle who take it upon themselves to visit far eastern exotic locations around the world just bef…
- November 27th, 2009
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Bands you need in your life
Another week another pointless post with me trying desperately to force some ‘great’ music down your throats. I get a small kick everytime, so i’m going to keep going. Please feel fr…
- November 25th, 2009
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Things for Cheap
It’s nearly Christmas and for me Christmas shopping is but one of my yearly fears, a sense of inevitability haunts the air around me as I move from shop to shop looking for that perfect gift whi…
- November 24th, 2009
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Great News for the Housing Market
Good news for the housing market. News just in courtesy of the Independent. Apparently the number of mortgages approved for house purchase rose to the highest level in around 2 years during October, a…
- November 23rd, 2009
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Spending over Christmas
I’m definitely of the opinion that in every situation that ‘Two birds should be killed with One Stone’. I know that is the exact phrasing but I reckon it works pretty well. After me…
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Bit Unfair
David Walliams is a comedian or one half ‘Little Britain’ a TV series which, I have had the pleasure of watching a few times now, he also is a bit of a ladies man, who seems to ‘blag…
- November 20th, 2009
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Another Bail Out Goes Sour
Earning $75,000 a week would be pretty nice for most of us, and at the very least you would hope you could get by quiet happily. Unfortunately for Newcastle United footballer Obafemi Martins $75,000 a…
- November 19th, 2009
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Them free Sim card offers…
It struck me earlier… There are so many great deals around should one be prepared to actually look around. Many times I get ‘confronted’ whilst surfing the net by a plethora of adver…
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A Philosophical Question
OK so the question today is : Do dogs regard man as a god, or just a bigger smarter dog? Answers on a post card please
- November 18th, 2009
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The Mobile Era
Its probably fair to say that the internet allows people to create for themselves a special online ‘identity’, be that in any form. Sites like Facebook/Myspace have been allowing people to…
- November 17th, 2009
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Going to Fly Away?
Its fair to say (minus the irritating Amy Lee from Evanescence(sic?)) singing that this video does really show what Dubai looks like. I would quite like to go there and have a good little look around…
- November 16th, 2009
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Bit of Luck
Its fair to say that there are seemingly a few ‘very’ lucky people on this earth. People like this tend to infuriate me and make me wonder: Would I have the same luck as they do if put in…
- November 13th, 2009
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Getting a good telling off!
I like it a lot when companies get a real slap on the wrist for either ‘breaking the rules’ or just treating their customers like a piece of dirt… Mortgages firm GMAC where fined $2.…
- November 12th, 2009
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Fuel Efficient Cars
The fuel crunches and overall awareness with the whole ‘green issue’ have forced many airlines into a kind of ‘cost cutting mode’ in order to boost results by lowering fuel con…
- November 11th, 2009
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My Bank
I was going to take out a loan the other day, my bank had ‘Pre-Approved’ that I could have X amount of money within 3 hours, damn tempting it was. I honestly thought the niceness would be…
- November 9th, 2009
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Being Connected
I watched a BBC Iplayer program about The Noughties on the veritable BBC3 , I didn’t make it very far through the program as roughly 5 and a half minutes in I was greeted by Chloe Madeley who i…
- November 6th, 2009
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No Hope In Spain
An Interesting Article from Gill Charlton : Matt from Oxford wrote in with this interesting question. I booked a four-day car rental from Malaga through CarJet and took out its top-up insurance for an…
- November 4th, 2009
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Not Using the Net
When looking for a bargain before going on holiday words like Best Deal and Savings instantly come to mind. Personally I hate the idea of going on holiday with a all inclusive deal on the table, I can…
- November 3rd, 2009
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Excellent Mobile Broadband Video
I don’t know why I love Indian TV shows so much, especially ones regarding gadgets and gizmos and frankly I think they have the right approach; a strange almost comedy like way of explaining pro…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Anti Wi Fi Paint
Are you sick of some ‘orrible airwaves pikey nicking your WI FI signal? Most people have a password set up to protect their account from these airway thieves. It does suprise me as to how many o…
- October 30th, 2009
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Album of the Week
For a while now I have been wanting to write some kind of feature about what I’m presently listening to, the worst thing being that im listening to so much right now that It’s hard to get…
- October 29th, 2009
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EU Blanket Coverage of Mobile Broadband
Interesting news just in regarding the EU’s plans to enable and standardise Mobile signal/reception. From the Silicon Republic one of Ireland’s leading technology news resource comes this…
- October 28th, 2009
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Stop Eating Meat! Maybe they have a point…
OK, so how many people do you know who are vegetarians? Are you generally frustrated when it comes to hosting say some people over for tea and one of the buggers is a veggie, and simply cannot touch m…
- October 15th, 2009
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Spawning and Yawning
I was very excited a few years ago when the brochure for my old mobile phone told me I could use it as a portable modem type device. This was something that I was sure would be the best thing since sl…
- October 13th, 2009
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Non- Digitised! You are Missing Out!
The first piece of research produced for her by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the average family would miss out on savings totalling $560 a year if they did not use the internet to shop around for…
- October 9th, 2009
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Fleeting and Bleating
According to Carphone Warehouse… Mobile Broadband is a fad which we will all be over with by next week After Carphone Warehouse restructed its business a few years ago (ongoing),pushing its Mobi…
- October 7th, 2009
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Dongles are putting Strain on already over used data networks
According to latest predictions around a billion people around the world will be accessing the internet through mobile broadband by they year 2012. Perhaps the most worrying fact is that in Europe esp…
- October 5th, 2009
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My Thoughts on Downloading Music…
There has been a lot of debate recently regarding how music in general should combat the issue of Illegal downloads as apparently it harms the artist and doesn’t allow the shareholders and owner…
- September 30th, 2009
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Energy firm Purchases Electric Vans
Dutch Energy company Eneco has signed contracts with Smith Ampere an electric commercial vans company which is providing Electric Versions of the famous Ford Transit. The Vehicles will be introduced i…
- September 22nd, 2009
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‘Jungle camp’ residents moved on
It seems to be that there is no real simple answer to the huge question posed by immigration
- September 10th, 2009
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The Upcoming Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
I'm Definitely going to be tuning in for this! especially as Im a fan of any form of day-night crossover sports
- September 1st, 2009
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Perhaps We Have A Case?
I wonder how many car rental firm or even the traders favourite van hire are effected by this problem this recent article on the brilliant ‘What we Are” site The Article is here Definately…
- August 25th, 2009
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- August 14th, 2009
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tibtib has posted a new entry on: The Whole Truth
The Best Deal on Mobile Broadband
Perhaps one of the fastest growing 'next big things' in this country right now is Mobile Broadband. TV adverts are full of deals comprising of unlimited GB allowance and free Netbooks. Perhaps some of…
- August 13th, 2009
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Thursday Humour
OK so some Thursday Humour Before the Penis Pump Took Effect ಠ_ಠ Before the Penis Pump Took Effect /`\ After the Penis Pump ಠ_ಠ /|\
