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I have for some time been concerned about leaving valuables in the locker at my gym (DW Fitness) - not specifically because of any problems reported at the branches I use but because lockers in such locations are clearly vulnerable and there have been reports of gyms being targeted by thieving gangs. There are not many portable lock boxes with movement alarms around. Frankly, this is the only one I found that looked at all substantial in the UK. It is the Xitel mySAFE. I purchased two, one for myself and one for...
I am really glad to have tried out ByBoxUk and will be signing up for the annual plan (less than £1 per week) shortly as it solves a key home delivery problem for me. The likes of Home Delivery Network (now called Yodel) are very unreliable for home deliveries in my experience, delivering at strange times, being difficult to contact, hard to track, handling goods poorly at times, and certainly reporting delivery attempts that do not seem to fit with my observations. Like most people with busy working lives, I have...
I cannot begin to imagine the feelings one has to deal with when facing starting again at a university one year on from having started elsewhere only to have subsequently dropped out. When the first university was Keele, and the second is Imperial College, the feelings must be even more strange. There cannot be many students who have chosen to have gone to Keele in the first instance, dropped out and then manage to gain a seat in one of the top universities in the country.Zoë took the decision originally to go to...
There are times when photograph inspire, times when they just encourage you to give up with no hope of ever getting any good, and other times when you just sit back and enjoy. Fortunately, Trey Ratcliff's work often falls into the later camp and stuckincustomers.com is one of the best sites on the web for photographers.
I do find it amazing how many book reviews on Amazon claim that the book isn't for the average reader. To quote from my recent comment on this: I do wonder who this "average" reader is that anyone posting on these feedbacks seems to consider themselves to be above. My guess, and it is no more than that (I have no reliable information on "average" reading abilities in USA or UK) is that the vast majority of basically educated people in the developed world with some secular religious education who use a kindle...
All of my assignments since joining PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting over ten years ago (most of which have been with IBM of course since PwC sold their consulting business) has seen me living in hotels at least three nights most working weeks. Until my last assignment that is. For the last two and a bit years, I have been able to reside in a flat rented on the Marina in Swansea (the photograph shows my view from the patio doors of my flat). Now, whilst Swansea would not be my first choice of a second home, it is...
I recently came the end of a long term assignment that had me travelling to Swansea every week and living in a flat three, four and sometime five nights a week. The drive at the beginning and end of the week was somewhat draining as it took at least three hours, more usually four allowing for a break and sometimes, when very tired or weather bad, five or more. Typically I drove down on a Monday morning in time to get started at 10am and left on a Thursday around 4pm.I am not sorry to have come to the end of my commute...
Switched our broadband from BT Total Broadband option 3 (unlimited) just before Christmas to Plusnet (a BT subsidiary) as they offered a better deal and I had been using them happily in my flat in Swansea for the last couple of years. Same wires, but throughput has been higher on Plusnet, better traffic management overall I guess. The switch over was not handled that well, but it was a strange arrangement. Basically, I contacted them initially to give notice of cancellation of the service to my flat. Their representative...
I am an avid podcast listener, primarily following technology and photography shows plus a wide range of BBC offerings as well. For a long time, one of my favourite podcasts was Buzz Out Loud from CNET which helped me keep up with the tech news in an entertaining but informative way. I really liked the team on the show of Tom Merritt, Molly Wood and Jason Howell but Tom moved on to create a new show with TWiT called Tech News Today and after a while Jason joined him. Tom was replaced on BOL by Rafe Needleman who...
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