As with my favourite pieces of music, I like any books that can successfully pull off a cross-genre story. Although my roots lie in science fiction and war stories, the books I have read over the last year have often mixed these with alternative history, fantasy and the odd touch of romance. One book I [...]

I was speaking to a friend recently, and discovered one of their relatives had just reached the official pensioner age. The relative has chosen to continue working in their current job. Not that most people have a lot of choice… The MONTHLY pension here is just 11,000 tenge! That equates to around $85, or if [...]

Whilst I am against the punishing of Peer To Peer users in general, it is interesting to see that France has tried a (slightly) different route in persuading people to stay legal when it comes to music, movies, games and applications. Check out the BBC’s article on it here. Monsieur Sarkozy has announced a scheme [...]

Nope, I’m not referring to my recent installation of the Facebook app (scrabulous I think they call it, but its basically Scrabble). Instead the tiles refer to one option for tidying up your existing garage floors, and the do over to the possibility of simply laying fresh concrete down for a fresh clean look.
Hmm, now [...]

Anyone who has used the underground system in London will be familiar with a voice that comes over the tannoy and informs passengers to be careful of the gaps between the platform and the tube trains. Well the lady behind the voice has lost her job with London Underground! She recorded some joke recordings, and [...]

The last couple of days our PC has had problems whenever anything involving video or non-basic graphics were involved. I tried all the obvious things, rebooting first, re-installing the nVidia drivers, then upgrading them to a more recent version when that did nothing to help.
I finally tried cleaning the registry with a couple of different [...]

Prior to a company releasing a new or revised product to the general public, they normally carry out some market research to ensure they have estimated the marketplace’s wants and needs, as well as discovering what sort of price range they should release the product with. Although I do not know much about the situation [...]

To get a bit of background information for this post, head on over to this BBC News article. For those unwilling, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) are broadly anti-EU, and favour Britain isolating itself from the European Union more. In the past they have never shied away from playing on people’s fears, and blowing things [...]

With the excesses of Christmas Day meals now less than a month away, people are starting to think about post-New Year strategies to deal with the excess weight they will inevitably put on. Some prefer to eat healthily and/or excercise, whilst others hold hope that diet pills may solve their problem. Eight years ago I [...]