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Expand your vocabulary

The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and write an appropriate new definition.

Here are the winners.

1. Intaxication : Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 2. [...]

Obituary

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

Knowing when to [...]

Hoorah! Jazz FM returns as digital radio brand

Evernote Web: Jazz FM returns as digital radio brand

I used to love listening to Jazz FM. It was one of the few really positive things about living in central London. 102.2FM – Jazz FM. Then their parent company decided that it was too restrictive and rebranded as Smooth FM, which doesn’t play the same [...]

Mac laptop trackpads

If you, or indeed anyone you know, owns a Mac laptop from the iBook to the Macbook (and Pro) then you NEED to read this article.

Some of you may know most or all of these tips, but I didn’t know any and they have revolutionised my laptop use. Now I’m wondering why my [...]

Fair Trade Music

The traditional music industry are struggling to get their collective heads around the internet and what it means to their profit margins. The model of business that they have used over the years to generate profit is very much superseded by the ability of artists to get on the web, build up a following and [...]

Top Gear Boat

Our local school laid on a dads and children evening the other day and I went along with MiniG-T. It was quite good fun with plenty of arts and crafts stuff to do. MiniG-T loves that kind of thing, although his dad isn’t fantastic at it.

There was a cool story time too, and everything [...]