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Computing

Amiga nostalgia – »

If you used to have an Amiga then you’ll probably remember Silica who produced regular mail order catalogues that could [...]

Japan

Three hotels on Okinawa (Naha »

Here are some photos of the three hotels we recently stayed at when we visited Naha and Ishigaki (both [...]

Driving around Ishigaki »

Ishigaki, Okinawa is reachable from Naha Airport via a one hour flight. The island is small and very [...]

Tokashiki Island Okinawa »

Tokashiki Island is one of the Kerama Islands off the coast of Naha, Okinawa. If you are visiting Naha [...]

Programming

DOS: Get the directory name from a »

If you need to write a DOS batch file that takes a file path as an input parameter and needs to do something to other files in the same directory as the [Read More]

Money

2010-2011 UK Tax »

Straight after putting up the tax graphs for 2009-2010, I’m putting up the tax graphs [...]

2009 – 2010 UK »

Here are some graphs showing income tax, national insurance, total tax and percentage of [...]

What does one »

If you’ve ever wondered what a million pounds (£1,000,000) looks like this post may [...]

If you earn money from Google’s AdSense or from some other affiliate or internet related source do you declare it? Do you pay tax on your income? I’m betting a lot of people don’t treat this kind of income as real income and don’t pay any tax on it. If you have a [Read More]

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Life

Air France VLML vegetarian in flight meals

After booking a long haul flight with Air France I used my booking code on the ‘Manage your reservation’ section of their website to try to select vegetarian VLML meals for my flights. Their website allowed me to select a vegetarian meal for one of the flights, but not the other. I therefore called up their customer services centre, and [...]

Stopping political junk mail

Junk mail is always annoying, there are many different types, and different steps are required to stop each type. Stopping junk mail is something I’ve previously written about, but if you want to stop political junk mail, or canvassing phone calls my previous advice won’t help you. If you are on the unedited electoral roll then the [...]

Wrist and arm pain when using a computer

Like many people who have to use a computer all day, every day, as part of their job, I find that I regularly get a painful or numb feeling in my wrists and arms. This is my story of what I’ve done to try to make that numbness and pain go away. I’ll add a usual disclaimer, pointing out that I’m not a medical expert, this is just personal [...]