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)
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)
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)
A Government announcement last week (Thursday 29 September 2011) to consult on raising the UK's motorway speed limit from 70mph to 80mph had various people revving their metaphorical engines. Radio 5 Live coverage included car veteran Quentin ... (more)
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BanSpeeders/ This petition is against the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/scrapcam. Sounds good to me! Speed cameras are a necessity to deal with the hordes of selfish criminals at loose on the roads today ... (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)
The Cyclists Touring Club Donate to the Cyclists Defence Fund! The CTC is the UK's primary society for all levels of cyclist. It campaigns for cyclists' rights, and advocates responsible cycling for a better and healthier society. ... (more)
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Windows Vista Windows with a difference... but is it any better than XP? (more)
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)
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