We had a bizarre situation recently where our internet access went highly unstable. It was very patchy, with some website access being fine and other access being impossible. Interestingly, video streaming would work - but only after many ... (more)
Ah, well, it's easy to answer, right? Boilerjuice, Butler, Bayford, Watson, or Scottish Fuels. Simple, eh? Or is it? Thanks to John Kelleher[1] who alerted us to the fact that many of the oil companies (that includes both domestic heating ... (more)
Be warned, if you purchase Whois Privacy (or domain privacy) from 123-Reg: they do not enable privacy automatically, so you need to go into the Whois Privacy section in your control panel and enable it there. I thought it was enabled when ... (more)
Our experiences of bike trailers. By Julii This info may be useful to someone else, really it's just the notes I used when trying to decide for ourselves. We had 3 children, age 5 yrs, 3 yrs & 8 months, when I was writing these notes up. This ... (more)
The nest has fallen out and two of the three baby blackbirds have died; here's the survivor a few days later, still being fed like crazy by his Dad. He couldn't really survive on the ground either, and died a day later. One thing we noticed ... (more)
Iceni Velo and VC Norwich had a fabulous time chasing around after the Aviva Women's Tour as the racers raced between Southwold and Norwich. Because of the wriggly nature of the route, we were able to see most of the teams at the start as ... (more)
Actually you can't really know if it's ever worth the hassle. Cost wise the only additional expense is interest lost on the capital outlay (£400 for our rims+tyres). Because the winters wear down no faster than usual summer tyres ... (more)
It should come as no surprise that the iPhone, master of location-sensitive applications, is recording its every move. There are privacy concerns in terms of what Apple might be doing with the collected data, but in the meantime let's have ... (more)
Once upon a time a 17" LCD monitor running at a resolution of 1024x768 would be state of the art, but not any more. The screen was also produced a couple of years before the widescreen format went mainstream, making it look very square compared ... (more)
Here is a table of the banks and other financial institutions that most people are complaining to the financial onbudsman about. Read their news article: ombudsman releases latest complaints data on individual financial businesses ... (more)
Here are some people's experiences of their broadband provision. Some are quite vocal about how good or bad it is, and others are more candid. Voice your opinion by completing the mini-survey on the right of the page! The responses: ... (more)