Yeah yeah, I know, quite boring, but if you want to be a good eco-freak you need to think about the environmental impact of all your activities, especially daily ones. Something to remember is that everything we do has an environmental impact ... (more)
Audax: the home of long-distance cycling If you love recreational cycling, and enjoy the prospect of an all-day ride, then the audax may be just what you need. Audax technically means "daring" or "courage", but you usually won't need either ... (more)
Piano-Playing for the Amateur (more)
The Truly Comparative ADSL Guide The best broadband providers are hard to find, as everyone offers a vague 'up to x Mbits service'. Fortunately, thinkbroadband.com gives us the ability to rate our ISP according to speed, reliability and ... (more)
The Slater Family Many Thanks to Harold Slater, Doug Slater and Harriet (Slater) Brewster for supplying all of these pictures of Brainards and Slaters and their relations. Doug has a hobby family history site for our distant cousins. (more)
The iPhone and other Smartphones Do you own a phone that doesn't do much (except make calls), but would find sat-nav (GPS), social networking and email capabilities useful? If so then you should seriously consider getting an iPhone. Not necessarily ... (more)
Governments of recent years have fallen over themselves to "be seen" to encourage saving from a young age. Children's accounts have always paid interest without deducting tax, but in 2002 the Labour Government decided this wasn't enough; ... (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)
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)
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)
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)