It’s election time. and I’m confused. Back home (aside from local council elections which I confess I never really understood), it was always a fairly simple case of knowing if you were in the blue/red/yellow camp when it came round to general election time. Every time that I was able to vote since the age [...]

When was the last time you used a proper calculator? For the past few years, I’d got used to pressing Windows-R, typing ‘calc‘ and hitting a few quick numbers to do my quick and dirty calculation. So I’ve had no need for a calculator. There was a time a few years ago when I discovered [...]

The thing I will miss most about 2007? The sheer satisfaction, of being able to put a slash through two zero’s and one seven. Yes, I’m one of those types that like to put a diagonal line through a ’0′ and a horizontal line through a ’7′ to help distinguish them for the numbers that [...]