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Mother Nature Attacks

Forget the raging debate over gas oil controversy in the middle east, there’s a bigger problem: natural disasters. For the last few days New Zealand has felt the brute of this full-force, with death and destruction all too commonplace, ending in terrible events for many humans. You can read more about the horrific toll the earthquake has taken on so many lives over at the following address:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12576808

I have to admit it: this scares me. Not just the fact More

Teacher’s Revenge

The unthinkable happened to me on the bus the other day: I got on to pay my money, pulled my hand out of my pocket, and all my change – pound coins included – came flying out and went STRAIGHT DOWN THE DRAIN. The bus driver then smiled at me menacingly, rubbed his hands together and said “That’ll be three pounds fifty, please sir.”

I felt like crying but stopped myself, and it was then that I realised that my More

The Beard Wonder Life

If you’re a man who feels more comfortable with a full beard, you’ll know that beard abuse varies widely and manifests itself in a number of often alarming ways. You have three main types of beard abuse, and they are as follows:

1) The outright rude person who says they don’t like beards.

2) The glaring secretly beard-hating person who never makes his or her feelings known but you KNOW they are there.

3) The conspiracy beard-hater who incites others More

Was Special, Now Ruined

The other evening was special. To begin with it was special, for a while it was one of my favourite evenings that week. Every evening when Halcyon River Diaries is on is – what isn’t special is that despite loving the programme I’ve been mistakenly calling it Halcyon Days for the last three months. Anyway, my evening was good and life was great until I made the mistake of trying to watch TV while simultaneously download a book from Waterstones.com. More

Take Me Out?

Up until recently, if I ever heard the expression “Take me out” I considered it to be the same as any other combination of three words. Not so now, things are very much different and there is no returnd. Now I just grunt and shake my head with disapproval. It’s all the fault of ITVs new show, Take Me Out, of course: the biggest waste of space in the entire terrestrial world.

Similar to that old Cilla Black show Blind More

Aries Tattoos: What’s In A Sign

I was doing a broadband comparison when my next-door neighbor suggested I get a tattoo. Immediately I thought of an Aries tattoo, since I am an Aries. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/>

Now Aries is the foremost of the Zodiac signs. This sign depicts the form of a ram or the symbol ‘Y’ to represent the horns of the ram and is perceived to be a representation of a warrior. It is supposed to be the start of More

How To Stay In Touch

A friend recently told me this: “when you move away from somewhere, I think it’s up to you to stay in touch”. I could see his point immediately of course, but it was what came after that confused me. He said, “because for them nothing has changed, so why should they have to stay in touch?”

See what I mean? It’s an interesting debate.

Personally, I think we are all equal when it comes to staying in touch, after all, More

Top 5 Dating Mistakes We Geeks Make

We Geeks are special people; we are human beings, although some look at us as if of different species. We have social interactions and language aspects that are different, but we can date and show our true selves and our nerdy habits. If we go dating, there are top five mistakes we geeks should avoid. These mistakes are as follows:< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"/>

Doing the talking most of the time, as if we are very knowledgeable and More

Email Advice

I don’t know loads of stuff. I’m not into history that much, I don’t know what Pantone Mugs are (I was given these for Christmas and have a sneaking suspicion they have something to do with arts and crafts), but I do know a thing or two about technology. Specifically internet-based stuff. And one specific thing I know about, seeing as I have so many of them, are email addresses. It may seem like a boring thing to read about, More

Stand Out Negativity

One of my most favourite things about the internet is the way you can read about people’s life stories. Buying things online is great, of course, but it costs money, whereas reading blogs is free, and often a much more productive way to spend your time (rather than window shopping for things you don’t need and can’t afford…).

One recent story I stumbled across online was about Holiday villas in Portugal . It was, quite simply, the blog of one More