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Every now and then, you read something or hear a story that, for whatever reason, makes you think "Wow, isn’t t’Internet a fab thing?" Today was my day.
Backtrack to 1998, when Manda and I went to Prague for our first trip away together (this was before Prague transformed into the stag do capital of Europe!). [...]

Little more than an excuse to test out a WordPress YouTube plugin, folks. So, does it work?
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A bit of an odd one here … When I was making my way around Aus, I kept noticing a car rental company whose logo appeared to consist of a key and the phrase ‘No Birds’. I never did get what it meant – I just assumed it was some Aussie reference that I hadn’t [...]

Well, it’s been almost two weeks since a little bundle of jaws, fangs joy came into the Lloyd household. She’s settling in quite nicely and hasn’t yet drawn blood with her wayward little needle-sharp puppy teeth. So, say hello to Fraggle!

She was puppy of the day over at dailypuppy.com yesterday which got all the [...]

Apparently it’s not the done thing to talk about Google and something that rhymes with ‘Rage Bank’ or ‘Age Prank’ and has initials of ‘PR’. So I won’t. But you all know what I’m saying …
Anyways, what’s a PR9 – whatever that means, I wouldn’t know – worth these days? In terms of advertising, [...]

I believe I have found it. And it is this:
Geeks + drink + a few hours of said alcohol marinading geeks + The Weathergirls’ “It’s Raining Men” = instant photographic gold. I mean, just look at this little monkey:

Stuart ‘Lug Radio’ Langridge likes nothing better than singing his heart out to a big gay anthem:
These [...]

What would ITV do for drama if Robson Green were to fall victim to some nasty head-on collission with a bus type accident?
How many versions of the Confused.com advert are there at the moment? They got rid of the really irritating one from days of old, thankfully, but appear to be trialling untold numbers [...]

You know, I wouldn’t say that I am. I don’t go out of my way to get myself seen, but I always seem to ‘do stuff’ rather than let it happen (I wish that were true of my activities on the web, too, in which I’ve been distinctly passive of late – if you excuse [...]

An interesting question. How about ‘may you go boil yer own head you bunch of frickin’ morons‘.

I dunno, it was all looking so promising when they actually appeared to be asking permission before whacking a whole bunch of spam pharmacy links in the comments field. Jeez, this stuff just never ends

In the vague chance that someone other than a family member might be reading this post, I wanted to share a little gem with you …
When I did the round the world trip, a quite significant part of that trip was spent in Australia. A quite significant part of that significant part was spent [...]