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Got Money to spare? Need Money? Zopa is for you (and you could win an interest free loan!)
I’ll get to the interest-free bit later. This post is about the great loans/investment service Zopa. For those who haven’t heard about it, Zopa let’s people with money lend money to people who want loans, and it’s all relatively low risk. I’ve been using Zopa for a couple of years now (I’m a lender). Initially […]
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HomepagesFriends to stop paying (official)
Back in February I wrote that the promising service Homepages Friends (formally MySearchFunds) had stopped paying out, (wel, they seemed to have stopped paying me anyway). Any members will have seen the emails they sent recently. The first one seemed to give you the option of paying your earnings to a charity instead and the […]
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There’s something seriously wrong with this computer
Sorry, this one’s going to get a little geeky. We rented a Blu-Ray last night in an attempt to have a nice Friday night in. Unfortunately the film (Be Kind Rewind) crashed the ATI video drivers on this computer. After a couple of attempts I decided to try upgrading the ATI drivers. I was a […]
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Another Night, Another Lullaby (and I bought a car)
It’s 3:40 am and I’m up again today rocking Izzy to sleep. It’s not too bad as he gave us over 4 hours before waking for a feed and a change. I think she got wind, but that seems to have cleared (with a few of her surprisingly loud burps) and she’s starting to settle. […]
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It’s Been a While
It’s just gone 3:00 in the morning, and I’m writing my first post in a long time, and I’m writing it one handed. It’s been nearly 2 months, a long way from the relative excitement of my post a day “experiment”. Anyone who reads this regularly (I’m still not sure there is anyone), or anyone […]
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Ten days, Eight posts
I’m up early (well early for me – especially for a weekend). I was wide awake (which is again unusual for me in the morning), so I thought I’d get up! I thought now was a good enough time to sum up my Post a Day experiment. In ten days I wrote eight posts. Nothing […]
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Is one hour enough?
I’ve just recieved an email from our colocaltion suppliers encouraging us to take part in WWF’s Earth Hour. Basically the idea is to turn off the lights for an hour tomorrow evening in an attmpt to halt climate change. Nice idea, but is one hour in 8760 going to make any difference? I know the […]
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A warning to webmasters: don’t rely on secret URLs
I’m sure I’m not alone in creating administration pages for websites that under development, and relying on the fact the URL is unknown to keep them private (until the site is launched of course). I currently have a large project under development, which has a number of administration functions that are executed by visting a […]
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Jade
This post isn’t so much about Jade Goody, or her recent passing, but about the over-coverage (in my opinion) of the story. Don’t get me wrong, it is tragic that Jade has died, but in my opinion no more tragic than any other young mother dying of any terrible disease. In life she was annoying […]
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Avoiding Crap eBay Photos
I’ve spent most of the afternoon today listing items on eBay. It’s a great idea getting a bit of cash for your unwanted junk (not that anything I sell is junk of course!), but it does take a surprisingly long time putting them up there (and then of course a long time packaging and posting […]