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I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

Looking for the cheapest places to live? Assuming that you still earn a normal UK wage, you will want to compare Cost of Living Surveys and Quality of Living Surveys. Mercer, the Economist and some large governmental organisations compile these. We have picked out some titbits of relevant information and put all of the useful [...]

Is it just me or is it not slightly distressing to see a photo of two young men about to be hanged? In a piece about Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who has mercifully won his asylum case, the BBC juxtaposed a photograph of two men due to be hanged. Whilst I am grateful [...]

When we spent our year in Australia - until December 2007 - we ended our trip with a gentle enough spell living in the idyllic Adelaide Hills region which, as is only human, we really loved. During that time, we were fortunate to live with and meet some real characters in the wine growing and producing [...]

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Wow - I posted this using the new “Post” button on the latest version of ShareThis - it really does produce a pretty short and sweet post - just a link to the page, and a link to the sharethis site!
What’s cool, though, is that we’ve managed to be successful with [...]

Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and technology. Last year, Phorm made a loss of $11.6 million -yet somehow they have raised [...]

Just ask google - that’s us, we are making the internet finer. Its official. Google knows. Do you?

We’ve gone a bit mental about books and reading recently.
Not content with writing a ridiculous amount of information for people to read all day long while they’re on the internet, and writing books for those moments when they’re not, we’ve also added a few ways for people all over the world to get hold of [...]

Here are some ideas for those of you planning a prank before midday tomorrow. Beware though -several April Fools‘ Day pranksters have been jailed for causing public nuisances and devaluing major companies! The safest way to prank is to use a name or series of words that are anagrams or pnuemonics of APRIL FOOLS or [...]

Yet again, the decision to live and work from our new idyllic rural base has come back and bitten us on the arse as our laughably sporadic broadband supply has cut out for the second time in a week.As the providers, updaters and general managers of a number of database driven sites, we kind of [...]