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Women’s No Pay Day

 
Today is Women’s No Pay Day. Its a day to make people aware that (as you see above) on average 17% of women are paid £4000 less than their male counterparts, thats the same as working for free from October 30th till the end of the year.
So please join in Fawcett and Unison’s campaign to [...]

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Birthday Times

I didn’t really mention this but it was my birthday a few weeks ago. I turned the big old age of 24. Nothing special right? So I decided to treat this birthday as a quiet one. I went to Norwich to see my folks, my sister and my cute nephew, and of course get presents. [...]

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iPhone Launch Day ideas

So I’ve booked off the 9th November to go get my iPhone. Rumour has it that it will be available at 6pm, like the US release. And what I’m wondering is what to do during the day. I’ll have my laptop there (and power cable, very important) and I was wondering about live blogging my [...]

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Book Review: Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins

I first heard of Confessions of an Economic Hitman from John C Dvorak on TWiT one week during the Audible Book Recommendation. In preparation of my holiday in sunny…nay rainy week in Scotland and I decided to pick up this to read while away.
The basic premise of this book is the true life story of [...]

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I Want to work at an Apple Store!!

Yes its true. I feel the mothership calling me. But the big questions is…what does working at the Apple Store pay? I’m trying to get a rough idea cos I don’t wanna go for a job to find out it won’t pay the bills.
So can anyone help, or give a rough idea? What is the [...]

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Clean House!

Well tonight I’ve spent a few hours trying to make things a bit neater at home.
We’ve been in this house for about a month now and its getting closer and closer to being straight. We still need a bed frame, and to get rid of some large boxes (waiting to offload them to someone at [...]

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Fort Augustus - HOLIDAY!

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Originally uploaded by domster83.

Here’s just one of the 131 photos I took during the first real holiday this year. I had a week off and went up to Fort Augustus with my girlfriend. It was really nice up there in Scotland. Plenty of gorgeous scenery. [...]

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Do I want too much? Or too little?

Well its my birthday next week. Grand old age of 24. Not really an anything age. Of course people are asking me about presents. And I don’t know what to say. At this very point in time, I can’t think of anything I want. The only thing I want is an iPhone and thats being [...]

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iPhone, Edge, and Fort Augustus

I managed to enjoy a week off last week as I spent the time in a lovely log cabin in Fort Augustus, Scotland [see Flickr]. While there, I managed to miss most of the excitement around the Apple event in London on tuesday. And the big news was the iPhone is coming to O2.
Now I’ve [...]

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New Home, Old Router

So I’ve moved house. Last weekend was the big day and we got a whole house moved in one day, that included picking up keys and going to Ikea.
Now the biggest problem is connectivity. And it explains why I’m in Starbucks doing this. We got out BT line connected last tuesday. Then I called Virgin [...]

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