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With the holidays looming, and pay day arriving last week, I’ve decided to do a bit of window shopping online.

Is it “window” shopping when there are no windows involved? Well, in any case, I have been doing some online shopping and not actually buying anything – yet.

Mostly, it has been books, I suppose. I think [...]

Plans are afoot to go abroad, to America, one weekend soon.

An extended weekend, of sorts: Friday through Monday, and we would probably stay in a hostel somewhere.

The thing that’s so tempted about it is that it will be right in the middle of American football season, and not only would we get to watch [...]

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One of my favourite writers, Neil Gaiman, the author of American Gods, Coraline, and all manner of other creations and wonders, has won the Carnegie medal – and I am overjoyed.

It is the UK’s most prestigious award for children’s literature, and it was scooped [...]

The iPhone 4 was released today, and there has been the inevitable buzz of interest and frenzied excitement from fans and eager buyers keen to get their hands on the product.

I think it should be dubbed iPhone Day.

However, you don’t need to be an Apple hater to take a step back and think: what is [...]

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So much for the group being easy for England, eh? It was supposed to be a breeze; and yet, the squad found a way to struggle, playing like strangers against Algeria, and letting in a tame goal against the USA.

There is not much longer [...]

Reports show that as much as 41% of parents deliberately lie when filling out car insurance policy applications – and that number is only set to rise. But are they going about tackling it in the right way?

In a process known as “fronting”, when the parents ring up or fill in forms for car insurance, [...]

Waiting for news on my broken laptop, I actually lost track of time. Days blurred into weeks, weeks into months. I think, now, it has been something like three months of annoyance: three months of waiting to hear something – and inevitably hearing nothing.

And now I have decided to never buy an HP laptop ever [...]