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Using Google as your virtual English teacher
Google is your friend in many ways when you are learning English (or any other language). I am sure I won’t think of half the reasons it can help you but here are some of them: 1. Google translate – a...
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A Word A Day
You know how when you shop online, you end up automatically subscribed to newsletters, specials, updates etc? It is actually becoming harder to find the little checkbox to opt out to the mails...
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Massdrop
Massdrop is a site where people band together online to buy popular niche items in bulk. This means that the more people that buy an item, the lower the price. As MassDrop itself says: Members...
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Mac vs. PC
Bottom to top: 13″ HP PC, 17″ MacBook Pro (2009), 15″ Macbook Pro (2011), 13″ Retina MacBook Pro (2015), iPad (2012), iPad Mini (2013). And of course a furry backside, because my cats never leave me...
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Badly designed websites REALLY annoy me!
I just cannot stand companies who want to be on the internet and social media but don’t understand how it works. They want to have a social media presence because ‘everyone else has one’ but they...
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Autocorrect
I really really REALLY detest autocorrect. I turn it off wherever possible but sometimes you just cannot avoid it.
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Another update on DNA results
As regular readers will know from my previous article, my Ancestry DNA results came back and I was very interested by the results. They were no great surprise (basically I am half German, half...
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The Coriolis Effect Myth
Were you ever told (or even taught) that water spirals down a drain in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres due to the Coriolis effect? Weird how those things stick in your...
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Paypal fee calculator
One thing that often catches me out when I sell things is the Paypal fees. I always use Paypal goods and services so that both myself as the seller and the buyer are protected if something goes wrong....
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Passwords
I am sure I am not alone in hating all the passwords one has to remember these days. Every single site you use regularly seems to require registration. And then there is the dilemma – same password...
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I love YouTube accounts like Data is Beautiful and Data Doggo You can watch the best selling music artists from 1969 to 2019 or the most popular websites from 1996 to 2019. It is almost hypnotic to...
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Do any of my readers do these challenges?
I have a client who is usually pretty active, completing several fun-runs, themed runs, and women’s runs. She does yoga, Zumba, Pound etc. She is not a superfit athlete. She is in her mid-sixties and...
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