From today’s BBC news business pages today: Surprise hike in consumer prices The rising price of imported goods – particularly fruit, vegetables and toys – has caused an unexpected rise in one measure of UK inflation. The Consumer Prices Index…
Author: John Curd
Stop Press (RIP)
Here I am on the latest incarnation of Windows Live Writer. It may have one or two idiosyncrasies but it seems to me to be many miles ahead of any other off line blog writer. By way of a test…
Watery Whipsnade
We’ve been enjoying an uncharacteristically sunny interlude for about the last week and, even though it was a weekend and was likely to be swarming with rugrats, our friends at Whipsnade Zoo beckoned. This was in part encouraged by the…
Infidelity Pays
Last year when our Mazda’s insurance was up for renewal, I leapt onto one or two of the plethora of price comparison web sites to see if I could better my car insurance price. I was very pleased to see…
DNA Testing
We started doing some genealogical rummaging through our family skeletons about a year ago. Using sites like Genes Reunited, one soon starts bumping into other potentially related folks sorting through similar closets. My surname, Curd, is relatively unusual; one doesn’t…
Phone Tales, the Sequel
So, my bargain basement new Nokia 2630 phone/camera/radio device now seems to be fully functional. This satisfying minor success followed a considerable amount of judicious debugging (it’s good to know I haven’t switched off completely since retiring) in which my…
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Hammers and Nails
The original text of a particularly useful quote, attributed to Maslow’s Psychology of Science, is apparently: I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. …
Phone Tales
I’m not a great one for mobile phones. I think it’s partly because I neither needed one nor was provided one at work, so I never got into the habit of spending hours printing money for mobile phone companies. Doubtless,…
comparethemeerkat.mom
[First of all, a couple of apologies. Apology #1 goes to any English readers for the Americanization of "mom" in the title caused by my needing a little URL poetic license. Apology #2 goes to non-British TV viewers who will…
Marching On
The process of mind expansion marches on. What better way to begin the new month of March than with another new word to add to one’s vocabulary? The splendid Mr. V. M. Yeates has done it again. Writing as an…
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