All you want to do is post a letter. So when did going to the Post Office become such a ridiculous ‘hard sell’ experience? I ask for 1st class postage. I just want my package weighed and the price. That’s it. Is it valuable? None of your business. I asked for 1st class postage, that’s [...]
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Yup, it’s true. The UK recession may actually be over. Are the newspaper headlines screaming out the good news though? Of course not – there’s lots of other far more depressing stories they can fill our day with instead… Economy Grows Two Months In a Row The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) [...]
Categories: Financial Ramblings · Personal Finance
This kind of thing drives me nuts. I don’t know why companies do it, because it screws their loyal customers who just happily renew their subscriptions. Here’s the deal. Save £27.53 On Your Kaspersky 3 User Renewal I got a new netbook and needed internet security software for it. I already had Kaspersky Internet Security [...]
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Has Google gone nuts today..? All my search results are showing the dreaded ‘This site may harm your computer’ message. So either Google is having a funny turn, or my laptop has been taken over by aliens, or worse! Even Google.co.uk and Google.com are reported as potential harmful… Aliens, Google or has Kaspersky let me [...]
Categories: Financial Ramblings
[Q] What’s the best thing you can do when everyone is losing their head and proclaiming the end of the world? [A] Shake your head sagely and find something more interesting to do. The newspapers are always full of doom and gloom. The TV news is right there with them. Is it the credit crunch [...]
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