Online business

June 17th, 2010

After much thought and deliberation my wife has decided to follow her dream and try to make a profit out of her painting hobby. She paints a wide range of subjects and a wider range of styles, and currently our home is both her studio and gallery.  We have reached carrying capacity and simply don’t [...]

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Getting too involved in a game

May 30th, 2010

Facebook, twitter and myspace, all ways of supposedly making new friends over the Internet, but are they really friends.  I was forced into making an account for facebook, my friends had pictures from my wedding on facebook that they wouldn’t email me, and they said I had to make an account.
I have never used the [...]

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End of Sky contract

October 11th, 2009

It’s that time of the year when my contracts with companies are coming to an end. My sky subscription end this month and I am trying to find something cheaper. I like to shop around and I am going to see if the comparison companies can help me find something just as good [...]

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Shopping with my Grandma

September 6th, 2009

I have recently been spending a little bit more time with my Grandma than I usually do.  This is mainly because she is getting very confused about things at the moment, and as she is living with my parents it is tiring them out a lot.  She is very easy to entertain, most of the [...]

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Changing the way we get TV

August 30th, 2009

If I think of a house I always think of a two storey building with a chimney pot with an aerial attached to it.  But it looks like the years of the aerial on every house is numbered with the advancements in IPTV.  Instead of getting the television signal through an aerial or dish soon [...]

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High definition and free TV

August 29th, 2009

I spent the afternoon in a caravan with a load of people from Whitby folk week, it s a tradition that my wife has been brought up with.  For the past 20 years my wife and parents in law have been to a party in their friends caravan on the Saturday after folk week.  The [...]

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Importance of the Internet

July 16th, 2009

How important is access to the Internet.  I am part of the generation that can just remember what life was like before the Internet.  When I was around 7 my Dad brought home our first Microsoft computer complete with a Pentium 75 processor.  At the time it seemed fantastic, but looking back it is nothing [...]

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Technology and specialist status

July 12th, 2009

Education seems like the Governments toy.  When they get board they like to play with it, add extra things teachers have to do, put a few more hoops in place.  There next idea is teacher MOTs, every five years teachers are going to be reviewed to see if they are good enough to teach.  At [...]

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