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Totally random thought on free markets and big companies

Ok, so I’ve been thinking a bit about ecomonics lately.  I’m by no means an expert, but it certainly is an interesting area.  Part of this is that I have been exposed to quite a lot of Libertarian thinking from my involvement in NO2ID. So I’ve read quite a lot of stuff written by people [...]

Marmalade

We interrupt our usual broadcast to ask a question:
Is there something intrinsic to the making of dark, bitter marmalade that requires it to be thick cut?
I’m a fan of these darker marmalades, like Hartley’s Olde English. I like the bitter taste, but I’m less keen on the chunks of peel. They make it [...]

Another child protection panic

You (the 2 people who read this blog) may remember I posted a question a few months back. I wanted to know why people seem to be so uptight about taking photos of children when we live in a country where every city centre street has a CCTV camera on it. This was motivated [...]

What is wrong with our MPs?

I’m sure it is just a few idiots who are giving our democratically elected representatives a bad name, but for crying out loud! Not content with deciding that they are above the laws that they enact on the rest of us, some of them have decided to spend time and effort trying to get [...]

Can anyone explain to me…

… why this is the case? I live in a country so stuffed full of surveillance cameras that you can’t scratch your arse in a city centre without it being filmed from 3 different angles. But yet if I want to take a photo of my kids taking part in a craft activity [...]

Where’s the instruction booklet?

One blindingly obvious use of the ‘net, to me at least, is as a place to put instruction booklets. So that when you inevitably lose the instructions for something you bought you can at least get a copy as a PDF from the manufacturer’s website. I’ve done this in the past when I [...]

Sorry – No web access on Sundays

My employer is a big user of the details stored at companies house. This information is very useful for proving that companies really are who they say they are. When I recently saw that we get charged £1 everytime we look at the details of directors of a company and that these searches have to [...]