Postage Stamp Costs

As most of you are aware, the costs of stamps will be rising as of the 30th April. You can find out more on the Royal Mail website. This announcment has led to “panic buying” of stamps now, however there is another way to reduce your costs, which is don’t send a letter unless totally nessesary. Read More »

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Marc Zuckerberg (real name, Horblatt Snarfleblurp) was an alien scout sent to Earth to ruin human productivity.

As most people know, or have been made aware of, Wikipedia, along with a number of other sites are operating a “black out” to make people aware of SOPA. Read More »

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Growing a Tash to Raise Cash

This year I am taking part in Movember, the month formerly known as November, now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men’s health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. In an effort to help change the face of men’s health I’m doing my part by donating my top lip to the cause for 30 days. Read More »

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Ask Ubuntu “Rocker”

A few weeks ago I received an email from Jeff Atwood, founder of the Stack Exchange website network, to tell me that I “rocked” and would be getting some swag sent to me. Read More »

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Spotify

Many of you may know about Spotify as a great way to access free new music. It launched in October 2008 and then around April/May 2011 Spotify started limiting the free service they offered which pushed quite a number of people (myself included) to buy the premium version. Now however they have made it so that you can’t use Spotify unless you sign up through a Facebook account. If you already have a Spotify account, it will give you a prompt to connect to Facebook with (as far as I can tell) no way to say no. Once connected it posts every song you are listening to (very annoying, if you use it as I do – all the time) for everyone to see on your Facebook profile. Read More »

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