As a long-time Internet user, the first question in my mind when considering moving house isn’t access to public transport, shops, crime rates, parks, it’s: “What’s the broadband access like there?” For our new address, BT quoted June the following year for fibre. By the time we moved this was put back to ‘July to […]
To Infinity and beyond. The joys of changing Internet providers Read More »
Here’s a few sobering facts to think about when you wonder about the future. Population : When I was born there were 3.1 billion people on the planet. As I write this (in 2015) there are now nearly 7.3 billion and that number is accelerating. At what point do we start to run out of
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Black Friday descends once more on the UK and the world. Frenzied crowds pushing and shoving, fights in the ailses as literally millions of people pile into Asda, Tesco and other stores promising slashed price bargains for the first few through the door. Riots ensue, store are closed within minutes, police called out, ambulances called
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This post isn’t mine for a change, it’s something I read in one of Michael Heppell’s emailed newsletters that struck a chord with me, so I wrote to him and his team and asking if I could "steal" the newsletter and share it here. They kindly allowed me to reproduce it below. If you don’t
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In a recent article by Ars Technica entitled After moving money around, Google paid tiny amount in European taxes Basically the company created a shells company in Ireland to be its “European headquarters” and then set up a series of other shell company around the world – notably in Bermuda – and then charges its
Google 'cheats' UK and Europe out of billions in tax. Same old, same old! Read More »
The irony of cold callers I’ve just spent 6 minutes on the phone arguing about irony! (They called me). The first couple of minutes to the initial telesales contact, the rest to her manager, who was quibbling pedantically and accusing me of being hostile. It goes like this: Them: “Can I speak to …” Me:
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Introduction Horseplay (©1987, 1989, 2011) Horseplay is a board game I developed in the 80’s with the intention of turning it into magazine puzzles, computer games and even a television game show. It is a blend of Scrabble®, chess, draughts and even far older games like Chaturanga, an Indian version of chess for four players.
In making this as authoritative as possible I’ve ‘farmed’ every possible recipe and legendary crafting materials including a frustrating few like the Gimmering Gemstone that I’ll never need (having preciously made the Staff of Herding). As such this guide is from a genuine players point of view – as opposed to a few pages of
Farming legendary plans and materials in Diablo RoS Read More »