The Blog Roll

Take a Holiday in the Sun to Beat Winter Blues

When it’s the height of summer you will have no way of knowing what is coming for you around the corner, only a few months away. You will wish for some cold weather, and a little respite from the terrible heatwaves that we are becoming increasingly prone to as global warming becomes global weirding. It’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever want to see the sun again, when you’re forced to turn the expensive air conditioner on for days on More

Changing Enery Suppliers Could Save You Money

Saving money on energy bills is possible if homeowners take a few minutes to look over the bills and see how much they are paying for the gas or electric. Competitors who provide the same service may offer gas at a lower rate, which will in turn save families money on the yearly cost. Changing your energy supplier could save you money, but the only way to know what savings are available is to do some research.

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The History of Whiskey

Whiskey has been produced in Scotland and Ireland for almost a thousand years. Before that the art of distillation was happening in modern-day Iraq way back in the 2nd century BC. It was first distilled in the Gaelic regions somewhere between the 11th century and the 13th. The word derives for the Gaelic language and is roughly translated to mean “water of life,"something that you might recognize more commonly in its latin form: aqua vitae.
It initially was indeed a More

The Great Hoover Event

When I was a mere lad, me and my mum used to go into town on Saturday’s and have a look around. This was before I realized that shopping was a horrible thing to do, and that having your mum buy you shoes was seriously un-cool and traumatic, especially in regard to your “streetcred”.
One of the places we used to walk past every week was the place that sold cheap gas cookers. It sold cheap hoovers too, and everything More

How To Be Good

I am not a salesman. I was not put on Earth, if there is indeed a reason why we are, to sell things. This was demonstrated several years ago, painfully, when I went for an induction at a call centre. They told us that we were to sell products in a “clandestine” way. What they meant was that we should try and charm the customers and then, slowly but surely, drop subtle hints which would get THEM to ask US More

PHS

Why is David Cameron so keen are introducing private and for profit business into the National Health Service. He has just announced plans to sell off the state owned NHS Professionals which supplies agency staff and NHS Locum jobs to hospitals. Its always been big business providing temporary workers. In the old days there used to be pools of workers who would be able to cover sick days and vacation days for the regular workers. Then, agencies took over the More

UKs unpredictable Summer

The Enigin blog mentions burnt skin and red faces in the office. I must say that I can relate to that! It was so hot on Sunday and Monday, the indoor fan only helped to blow the wind around it seemed. Absolutely useless. I recall wishing for the rain. Even outdoor it was muggy hot with no breeze at all.

At first its so nice to finally have the sun, no more taking along a brolly in case it rains More

No Excuses!

Are you the kind of person (make that nerd) who beams with excitement whenever the word RAM or hard-drive is mentioned within fifty feet? If you are then the following post should be right up your geek street. If you’re not then you should read it anyway, because you just might learn something amazing. The post is about energy saving computers and is really quite fascinating, even if I do say so myself.

Me, I’m practically a technophobe. I wouldn’t More

Guardian

Some of the biggest mysteries of the world are the little things: why do only people who look up tend to get pooed on by birds? Why do the hinges on pedal bins rarely last longer than one month? But one of the most pressing questions concerns babies, of course. And that question is: why do their heads look so big in relation to their bodies?

I was pondering this moments before the door opened, my hands full of baby More

The Catastrophic Consequences of Offshore Drilling

It is impossible to overlook the recent environmental disaster caused by human negligence and greed. I am talking about the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, of course. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig might be cited as the primary reason for the spill but to my mind, the main reason for such potential damage to the world, is the absence of human foresight and even basic intelligence.

Will we never learn? This is not the More