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If you’ve ever gone through the rigmarole of trying to explain your email address to someone (”it’s an underscore-no, like a dash but at the bottom”) then this new service from Red Inbox may be of interest to you.
Very simply, you sign up for free, and once verified your mobile number becomes your email address, [...]

You may (or may not) have noticed that the Blogcatalog widget has made a re-appearance on this blog. I took it off because anytime it decided to have a slow down or not appear at all, it took my blog with it.
Some of this is down to the way my blog template is designed, but [...]

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

I post this segment up from the more modern (i.e. colour) Twilight Zone movie, as my wife has never seen it, and describing the gremlin on the wing segment gave her the chills!
You can see the first 10 minute part here, to see the setup and the gremlin tearing bits off the engine, but if [...]

Even though it’s the school holidays here, we’re stuck firmly at home, and our July vacation seems a hundred years ago. With Christmas (and 2008!) fast approaching, what better time to check out this interesting travel blog and start planning your next trip?
Whatever your tastes are, for warm locales, ski trips, family holidays or romantic [...]

Whoops, where has the time gone? Can’t believe it’s been 6 days since I was last here.
It’s half-term in Scotland, meaning I have the boys at home for 18 days…… oh, joy! So this week, Steph’s taken a few days off and we’ve been eating walking our way around the autumnal landscapes of Aberdeenshire.
I’ll put [...]

I’m not the worlds biggest gambler (although we did win £25 on a scratchcard this week, which makes a pleasant change!) but I can review a website when asked to, and that’s what OnlineCasinoBluebook.com have asked me to do with this ReviewMe review.
It’s not the most stunningly beautiful website you will have seen (not since [...]

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

I don’t think I can
My old Motorola V600 has recently shuffled off it’s mortal coil, so I’m very much interested in a new phone, and it’s definitely not going to be one of those ‘iPoseur’ things from Apple, but it may just be the rather stylish Samsung G600:

This rather sleek little mobile is [...]

File this under ‘I want one’:

This is one of the winning entries in a design competition, and would be such a cool thing (or hot) to have on the breakfast table. It’s ceramic, and the elements are contained within the slot at the end. Small rubber wheels are belt driven to push the toast through, [...]