I discovered recently something truly revolutionary. Very simple. Probably very old. But very very useful. And unadvertised.

Remember all those times, as a kid, where your mum had to hold you down/ bribe you/ both to rip off your old plaster. She would tell complete lies like it wont hurt if you do it quickly.
Well, faced with starting to do the same with my daughter, I thought I'd ask the pharmacist if they had anything to help. I mean, perhaps nail varnish remover might...

I read today that the former flagship French aircraft carrier is sailing into Teeside to be dismantled having been turned away from other countries for being too toxic.
In Teeside it will join 4 US navy warships that were too toxic for other countries to want to dismantle.

All this reminded me of a trip I did as a kid to Sellafield. They were intending to set up a centre to take all the high grade nuclear waste that other countries didn't want.
Well, I don't know if...

What the ..?

I gave up reading these long ago. I mean its not like you have a choice. You either sign up and use the software, or try to return it for a refund.

But I had heard that I could downgrade vista on the same license, and I wondered if I could partition a 32bit vista along side the 64bit version if I could borrow the disk. So I started reading.

I have always been proud that our legal system protects people's rights and guards against corruption....

I have waited to get a new computer for quite a while now, and over christmas my existing laptop took a turn for the worse.
I could accept the fact that the case plastic was slowly cracking. I learnt to accept the fact that the DVD drive was unpredictable. But when my daughter managed to snap the headphone out socket (with 3 input/output jacks, I'd hoped that I could reroute the main sound to one of the others... but no); and when the left click on the mouse pad thing stopped working I decided...

I love my country, but there are some things that are out and out daft.

In my childhood, fizzypop used to be sold in glass 2l bottles that carried a redemption value when taken back to the shop. They were then reused.
We also had a milkman, who delivered to almost everybody, and milk was delivered in glass bottles that you had to rinse and return (although no financial incentive was given)

Now recycling of glass is to crush it up and make it into new glass. That...