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Here’s a cool idea, if you are into tattoos. There are websites on the Internet where you can download any tattoo design you wish, pay and print out your design and stencil, take it to your local tattoo parlor and get it placed on any part of your body. I’ve never come across one of [...]

Found a surprise on my desk this morning, my Christmas present arrived! I blogged about it before but for those who hadn’t seen the post, I bought myself a 2Gb MP4 playing watch. And today it arrived! Here’s the unboxing:
The box shows what’s on the inside:

Opening the box, the watch is arranged in a nice [...]

Does anyone out there know what Neuropathy is? I didn’t so I looked it up and found this definition:
Neuropathy is defined as a disease or abnormality of the nervous system. These motor sensory and autonomic nerves connect the spinal cord to the skin, muscles, and internal organs. Neuropathy generally presents in the hands and feet [...]

Arthur is spending more and more time on my laptop. It’s great to see him learn and start picking up letters, but I must moan about the fact that he has a couple of toy laptops and still prefers mine. It’s probably because we get to play together on my laptop and he like the [...]

Have you ever found that you’re short on funds a few days before your pay cheque arrives? I don’t know if this is done here in the UK, but in the US you can get a Payday loan that will tide you over for a few days. It’s an interesting idea, you can borrow between [...]

I only have around 1 week left before my Project Management exam. I should be able to get a good grade, but I don’t think I know the material in enough detail to get an A. I’m working through past papers at the moment, but it’s taking time and I don’t seem to have enough [...]

Don’ you hate it when you have the heating on, but part of the house just doesn’t lose it’s chill? It must be a central heating thing, but sometimes the radiator coverage isn’t idea in some houses. Back in Malta we never had central heating. When I was a kid, my mum used to use [...]

Andy and I gave a talk last night to the local chapter of the BCS about the work we’re doing to provide businesses and citizens in the Isle of Man with a set of Online Services to facilitate interaction with Government. We had a great time talking about what we do and had quite a [...]

I came across an interesting article on how you can save money on property insurance on Property Today’s website. It talks about how insurance companies basically measure risk against property and and how you can reduce the cost of your insurance by taking a few simple measures. Get some decent locks, alarms etc and you [...]

Woohoo! I managed to find some skiing clothes my size, thanks to TKMaxx. I managed to get some ski pants that fit and a nice lime ski jacket. I now need a thermal body suit and I should be sorted. Not sure if we’ll get skiing or just messing around in the snow, but it [...]