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Book Publishing

Book Publishing Ask pretty much any writer how easy it is to get their works published, and they will sigh despairingly. Indeed, most successful authors will have gone through the agonising period of doubt, wondering if anybody will deign ... (more)

Choosing the Best iPhone Apps

What do you do when you acquire your first smart-phone and get confused about apps? How do you know which ones are any good and which ones are just a waste of money? Here is a summary of apps that people have found useful: TomTom ... (more)

The Best Funny Tweets

Here's my compilation of the best humorous tweets I've come across on the web, in descending date order: @ () on » Reply » Retweet » Favorite (more)

Comic Books for Kids age 5 - 12

From Julii These images all sourced from Flickr.com All kids love comic books, right? Well, not me as a kid; I didn't ever read comics. I tried but couldn't "get" it. I found the stories too hard to follow, I didn ... (more)

Letters to Miss Joan Swindells, 1935

A sample of correspondence. She had many letters from Norman (very hard to read),quite cheery & jolly. George's letters are mostly pestering her to study hard. Edie's letters are more general family gossip. She was bedbound and operated ... (more)

Support the Campaign for Broadband Honesty

A Virgin Media campaign is gaining momentum: broadband providers need to be more honest about their service speed. "You should be getting what you pay for. Whether it’s a full pint in the pub, forty miles to the gallon or your broadband speeds ... (more)

First Click for Internet Advice

You might imagine that everyone is online nowadays, at some point in their waking day. Well, it just isn't true, and for those people without internet access this can be a real problem. A great many services are online-only nowadays, or a ... (more)

Efficiently decode a short url

I am building a reference of short urls, and for each one need to record its final destination url, server software and page title. Curl almost makes this a very simple process, but lacks the ability to download a limited number of bytes from ... (more)

Ruf's Levels of Giftedness are Creepy

I don't mean to slag off Deboarah L. Ruf personally. I haven't even read her original research or book, and plenty of what she says is common sense. But the way her ideas have come to dominate thinking about intellectual giftedness, ... (more)

Why I Hate Tombolas

Apparently Tombola games are an Italian invention (some history). I never encountered them until I came to Britain, and it could even be that they are a European only custom. I struggled to understand them at all until I joined a preschool ... (more)

Same Product, New Look. Huh?

There was a little green label on a pack of tuna fishcakes I bought from Sainsbury's the other day. I only noticed it when I'd got home, and bothered to read what the label said. Now, usually a green label implies some sort of healthy attribute ... (more)

Top-selling BBC Titles

Here are the latest top 10 best sellers from BBC Shop: Radio 2 Janet & John Stories: Reloaded (Audiobookcd) In The Night Garden...Who's Here? (DVD) How We Built Britain (Book) In The Night Garden: Igglepiggle Mini Plush (Toy) In The ... (more)

Sub-£300 Digital Cameras

The features I'm looking for: Compact (light and slim) High quality optics Good at close-up shots (sub-10cm) Tough construction High number of shots per battery charge Fast to turn on (ie, low lag before it's ready to take a picture ... (more)