Why, when you search on an author at Amazon, do you get another three authors turning up in the search, not because both contributed to the same anthology, but because they wrote the same type of books? If I wanted to read a book by Author 2, I'd search under their name, you digitised binary twat-waffle.

I suppose I could get up and turn the light on, but that really seems like too much effort at the moment (* a bit like updates*, the crowd responds ( Read more... )

A TV advert which showed pop singer Duffy cycling through a supermarket has been cleared by an advertising watchdog after health and safety complaints ( Read more... )

How will you be defined in the dictionary?

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How will you be defined in the dictionary?

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I just got tickets to see Brandi Carlile when she's in London in August. I google intermittently on the off-chance she's coming to Europe again, and this time, one little line on her tour schedule said London.

*goes to bed happy*

But the cute, it burns


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From this guy's flickr page.

He has two new basset hounds. One was washed in new ColourFast Basset-Safe, the other in ordinary washing powder.

Look what happened.


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Last year I saved £200 off my £500 insurance bill by swapping providers. In hte runup to renewal, all the companies I got quotes from have been sending me information in the post, and they are all around about the £300 mark again. Today, Tesco sent me their new "improved", with discount price. £490 ( Read more... )

It's half eight in the morning on a bank holiday and I'm at my computer working. Oh the joy. But we're in the middle of a giant clusterfuck at work, and I need to think things through in peace and quiet. Plus, sods law dictates that having done nothing for weeks, all work arrives on my desk together ( Read more... )