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• Away for a bit...
  on Sep 22, 2009
  I know there are literally tens of people who rely on this blogsite for an insight into world events and cutting edge editorial comment on a daily basis. But, as I am going away for a bit, my loyal readership may have to either re-read this post or...
• More tax on beer? What about responsible drinkers?
  on Sep 21, 2009 in Binge Drinking Health Beer Alcohol Economy Devon CAMRA
  The CAMRA website expressed concern over a new report from the British Medical Association proposing further measure to discourage underage drinking.Alcohol abuse in the UK is worse than all countries worldwide, with the exception of Mexico and Turke...
• Any light at the end of the unemployment tunnel?
  on Sep 20, 2009 in New York Times UK The Telegraph Economy Unemployment The Future Credit Crunch
  Whilst millions of Americans seem content on objecting to a state-sponsored health-care system, one fact remains that has a succinctly sobering factor on anyone that cares to give it a moment's thought. The existing system relies pretty heavily on b...
• International talk like a pirate day!
  on Sep 19, 2009 in Fads Pirates Entertainment LA Times
  I am not one to keep up with trends, those fad-following days are long behind me now, but today, I am reliably informed is 'international-talk-like-a-pirate-day' and is something we should all be experiencing for the entire day.I was sent a quick tw...
• Volkwagen L1 Concept: sure it looks good, but where do I put the kids?
  on Sep 18, 2009 in Cars Volkswagen The Future
  The only similarity between the car I own right now and the Volkswagen L1 Concept featured above, is the colour. Since fuel prices continue to soar, the cost of running my antiquated Vauxhall Astra seems woefully expensive. Okay, I can fit in the k...
• Derren Brown's lottery trick - solved?
  on Sep 17, 2009 in Magic creativity UK Darren Brown Entertainment
  For anyone that hasn't taken an active interest in the British media over the last week or two, you may have missed a televised magic trick/crazy stunt by pseudo-physic Derren Brown who accurately predicted the live result of the National Lottery dra...
• British Farming: "future looking bleak"
  on Sep 16, 2009 in Farming The Telegraph The Future Credit Crunch
  I am not about to isolate the UK as the one country in the world with issues. However, the news comment yesterday from the Telegraph certainly made me stop and think.At one point, years ago I might add, I may have argued that British farmers had lit...
• Google Fast Flip: making news cool again
  on Sep 15, 2009 in New York Times first Iphone BBC news Google the internet The Future
  When I was a young lad, the news was boring. The news was watched by my father when something else more entertaining was almost certainly on the other side. To avoid going to bed, I would sit in the lounge with my parents, drinking my milk as slowl...
• Product placement coming to a TV near you!
  on Sep 14, 2009 in Advertising ITV Copyright Big Brother X-Factor Channel 4 Entertainment The Guardian The Future Credit Crunch
  The news of UK commercial channels making use of product placement within key programming was always inevitable. After all, you folks in the US have had it for years. I've been to the states many times and always considered that the explicit way TV...
• Why is my broadband so slow?
  on Sep 12, 2009 in UK The Telegraph the internet Broadband
  If you live in the UK, you may be (un)surprised to hear that Britain still has one of the slowest average broadband speeds in Europe. Whilst countries like Finland, Norway and Sweden are enjoying speeds in excess of 100 Mbps, most of Britons are luc...

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