Богородицаиконография It is that time of year again and I have constructed a new cart to race down hill in order to raise money for The Air Ambulance. My inspiration has come from a bird house that is being used to house a security camera….  Okay it is one that I designed and it sits [...]

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иконографиясвети илияWatching the screen and seeing something crawl across it is not unusual.  Normally you just brush it off.   Not this time!  The bug is in my computer, behind the screen and under the words! It is not something that you can squash so I have to hope that it manages to find its [...]

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икони I have been waiting for an opportunity to get a iMac for a while.  Having followed MacRumors for a while and being told not to buy one, the day arrived when the new kit was released… I have succumb to the temptation of  a really sleek, fast and powerful replacement for a laptop that [...]

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In a short 60 days since I posted the first forecast for 2011 the cost of unleaded fuel has jumped by 5% while Brent crude is up by 17% with no end to these rises in sight.  This has been impacted by the many events that are taking place in North Africa, coupled with a [...]

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As the minutes from the Bank of England’s policymakers latest meeting are released, it is becoming clear that there is a move towards raising interest rates. Mr Weale said that while inflation had been boosted in recent months by temporary factors, he was concerned that this could feed into people’s expectations about future inflation, making [...]

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One of the new “obstacles” on the Tough guy course was the addition of the torture chamber.  Having completed part of the killing fields, being submersed in freezing water you enter the torture chamber. This is a log cabin with no windows into which you have a crawl over a mixture of rocks, gravel, mud [...]

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I keep thinking that the interest rates in the UK are going to go up considerably and make life miserable for much of the population.  Every time I mention this to anyone, they all say “it can’t happen, it would be too awful”….  So why does this make it impossible? Since when is it possible [...]

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Having been playing with some numbers around the price of a litre of unleaded petrol, I was curious to see what the charts can tell us. This chart shows the average UK price of a litre of unleaded petrol (blue line) and the cost of a barrel of Brent crude oil (red line) between Jan [...]

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There are a number of interesting business /software trends that are being identified for 2011.  The list varies, mostly based on the bias of the author and their favourite topic.  Take for example ComputerWorld’s Regev Yativ who identifies: Mobile computing applications Extracting a return on EXISTING investment (ROEI) Enterprise software migrating to the cloud Better [...]

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While reading an interesting article by Porter Stansberry I came across this quote The central truth of economics is scarcity. There can never be enough of anything to satisfy everyone. The central truth of politics is patronage: promising to give everything to everyone. Paper money is the bridge between economics and politics. Which is very [...]

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