Standing room only?

By the year 2060, according to a survey published yesterday, the population of Britain will have risen by 25%, to 77 million. Britain’s area is 93,000 square miles, according to the Downing Street website, which yields 837 people per square mile – and bear in mind that much of Britain is unsuitable for building upon, [...]

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I’m 85 you know!!

Tesco have proposed a pensioner-friendly supermarket for Newcastle. If it actually happens, the store would feature extra-wide aisles, anti-slip flooring and trolleys with locking wheels, magnifying glasses and built-in seats.
Think about that for a moment – in Tesco-land, only pensioners merit anti-slip flooring. What about the rest of us, then? I walk with a crutch [...]

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Email – how fast do YOU reply?

According to Dr Karen Renaud, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow, who has carried out research into how fast people respond to emails (can’t she get a proper job?), and why, those of us who reply promptly to email are either driven (28%) or stressed (34%). To which there is only one appropriate [...]

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Trying to like Opera…

Sadly, there are downsides to Opera, which I’ve been using for a few days (not least its memory usage being almost 25% higher than Firefox 2.x).
You can install a spell-checking plug-in, but it has no option for checking as I type, which is what I prefer. It also turns off that function here, in WordPress [...]

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How long is a piece of string?

According to an article, in the Guardian, on alternative power solutions for cars and other vehicles, this is where that expensive petrol goes:-
27% is converted into forward motion
33% is spent cooling the engine
4% is lost as friction
36% is lost as exhaust heat
That’s 100% There’s a tiny snag, though – it leaves nothing for powering ancillary [...]

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More dietary drivel?

Eating two eggs a day could help to reduce cholesterol levels and promote weight loss, British scientists claim
I wonder if these are the same scientists who got eggs banned from the diets of many people, including me, because they raised cholesterol levels?
Anyway, it’s been accepted for a while that dietary cholesterol does far less harm [...]

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Even more photography stuff…

My favourite digital photography group is somewhat exercised and the moment by the problems of a person who takes “blurry pics”. Sadly, the post is a tad incomprehensible, which makes it hard for anyone to offer anything useful, but in general, the most common cause of blurred photos is the photographer, so don’t be too [...]

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Death by Sausage, part 2…

More dietary advice nonsense:-
“People who tuck into a fry-up every day could have a 63% higher chance of developing bowel cancer, a charity warned.
Eating processed meats like sausages and bacon increases the risk while extra calories can lead to obesity, which is linked to many types of cancer, the charity World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) [...]

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Firefox 3 sucks follow-up…

Please note that Firefox is now up to v3.5.2, and the problems here and on other posts relating v3.x are now largely irrelevant except for those who have failed up upgrade.
Firefox flashed an update alert when I turned it on this morning. When I clicked on it, it turned out to be offering FF3. Three [...]

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Spam, Spam, Spam…

No, not Monty Python, the egregious crap that pollutes your Inbox (though, really, you should take steps to prevent it ever getting that far – I favour Mailwasher).
Anyway, I mentioned, yesterday, that my email had vanished, and I wasn’t even getting Spam. Well, it’s back, and I noticed that quite a bit of it links [...]

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