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I had some money in Ratesetter for a while and my brother commented that the return wasn’t high enough to justify the risk – I was making about 3-5%. I’m no expert, I’ve done no research, but my feeling is that the ones that go wrong get more publicity than the ones that go well […]
I’ve just signed up with Bulb for home energy and will change our business over to them when our existing contract runs out. I chose Bulb because they’re a modern energy company. Disclaimer: This post contains referral links and thoughts on energy companies.
Although it might not be in the news as much, the Syrian refugee crisis is still ongoing and thousands of people still need help. I have a friend who decided to do something about it and recently went to the Greek island of Samos to help. He asked for donations before he left and managed […]
I started meditating for 10 minutes a day a couple of months ago, after reading The Monk That Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma. It described meditation in a new way, which made me want to try it. The suggestion was to take a rose and look at it for 5-10 minutes a day while […]
I’ve set myself a target this year to buy no more than 10 material possessions. I’m not sure how easy this will be, but the plan is to make me think more about consuming physical possessions, and hopefully encourage me to repair, re-use or just make do without. My main aim is to reduce the […]
Had some troubles with eBay recently that came to an interesting conclusion. The Situation I bought something that didn’t work, contacted the seller which opened a case, returned the product and wasn’t refunded within 30 days of contacting the seller. Unknown to me, the fact that it had been 30 days since I first contacted […]
I had a folder with all my photos and videos in it – some 50,000 files in 560 folders. I decided to move all the videos to a new folder, but wanted to maintain the same folder structure for the videos as for the photos. Obviously they weren’t all in a single folder, they were […]
I have a ReadyNas Duo and for a long time have been getting very slow transfer speeds when connected to my desktop computer via ethernet. It transfers much faster via WiFi to my laptop, and even to my desktop when I disable LAN and enable the WiFi card. This puzzled me for a very long […]
One of my motorbikes was stolen last week – a Triumph 675 Daytona. It was covered with the steering lock on, locked to my other bike via an Oxford Hardcore XL chain, and both bikes were in a secure underground car park. When I heard it had been stolen, I had assumed they had a […]
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