Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)
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)
Web Programming This section is all about web development, helping programmers to develop the best sites possible. The key elements of successful web development: Performance - Interface - Maintainability (more)
iRail - An index of all railway and model railway related websites in the UK and Ireland. (more)
Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)
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)
Impartiality in the heating oil domestic market can be as slippery to grasp as the heating oil itself. Last time you visited a heating oil website that offered oil quotes, did you know which company was actually quoting you? And when you ... (more)
We have become used to the idea of the group discounting service provided by BoilerJuice, which hunts for the lowest prices by aggregating consumer requests. Now, you can choose when you need your oil delivered. The typical lead time is ten ... (more)
Twitter has added a new string to its impressive API collection, and this one is aimed squarely at web publishers who republish tweets. With a bit of (very simple) HTML and a Javascript inclusion, we can create links that favorite, retweet ... (more)
The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)
The Brainard Family Name Links: Cecilia Brainard on Wikipedia, and her profile on PAHLBooks.com (Philippine American Literary House). (more)