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With the Olympics fast approaching, and anti-Chinese voices rising to a deafening level amongst those in the media, the question has to be asked whether the Beijing 2008 Summer Games will be looked back on in a similar light to the pre-war Berlin Olympic Games of 1936, or are the dissenting voices simply clamouring for [...]

As we often seem to, we’ve been in the right place at the right time to hear about a forthcoming attraction that is set to take the world by storm - this time it is a big night out, which launches in Newcastle next month, and goes by the name of Crispy.
This time, however, we [...]

So yesterday I was playing squash and I in my shandy drinking way was chatting next to the bar after the game.
The subject of what I do for a living was brought up and skillfully avoided, but it did lead the conversation on to why the Leyburn Leisure Club (where I had been playing squash [...]

Great news! Its also news that you would have to be pretty unobservant not to notice for yourself: we’ve got a new look website.
After months of trying to put the finishing touches on a magazine style WordPress theme, I discovered one that pretty much does everything we wanted and needed.
Keep an eye on our other [...]

While I was heavily re-shaping our books portal this week, I decided to see what was the highest consumer rated book on Amazon UK. An interesting question, thought I, and one which was sure to turn up an interesting result.
Interesting, yes, but not for its variety, all of the top ten are Harry Potter books.
The [...]

Recently I’ve been discussing a few ideas regarding workplace stress, or, rather, stress caused by work which pervades every aspect of many people’s lives.
One of the main focuses of my unscientific study has been on all areas which cause frustration, anxiety and stress in my life. Pretty soon, it became clear that almost all of [...]

During the past few days, for various reasons, I have been researching and reading with interest some accounts of various forms of capital punishment which have taken place over the years since man became civilised…
As a result, below is an account of the Top Five Most Gruesome.
It must be noted, however, that some forms of [...]

For today’s what’s new page, I’m going to do a trial run of something similar to the method that I’m aiming for to display the latest posts from all of the 24HourTrading sites in one place.
It will work better when the new posts go in the correct order (i.e. as they are posted) but, as [...]

Tomorrow will see the horse race that makes Australia stop - the Melbourne Cup, which takes place at Flemington, Melbourne, Victoria at 3pm Eastern Daylight Saving Time (so half an hour earlier here in South Australia & UK time: 4am GMT).
It is a massive day, which sees holidays across Victoria, and everyone who is anyone [...]

I’ve been featured in another publication, again an obscure one from a country I have never even managed to set foot in! A few weeks ago I was asked a few questions by the LA Weekly and (the grapevine moves slowly) yesterday I was emailed a link to their article.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/brownout-is-the-new-black/17463/
Unfortunately, I could not pick this [...]