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No win, no fee injury claims in the UK
2008-04-09 21:58:00 The arrival of no win, no fee agreements in the UK is transforming the landscape of legal claims. No longer do you need to dread going to a solicitor to make a claim against your employer for fear that the cost would bankrupt you and that’s a major, major plus. Injury claims are the typical application of the ... More About: Claims
Privacy online
2008-04-09 21:45:00 You might think that you can keep business and private life separate but online that’s pretty much impossible. Anyone who has ever used the Internet to any extent will find that when they search for themselves online there’s a massive number of sites that turn up. All those posts you’ve made to forums are there to ... More About: Privacy , Online
Thinking of going to Las Vegas?
2008-04-09 21:38:00 If you’re thinking of heading for Vegas , then the sheer range of accommodation options and Las Vegas deals is often quite daunting. One of the best is one of the survivors: the Sahara, which is celebrating 55 years in Vegas this year. For any hotel to be still around in Vegas after that length of time ... More About: America , Holidays , Thinking
Just how do you change your hosting service?
2008-04-09 21:24:00 Unfortunately, we’re rapidly becoming experts at this but for those that think they’re locked in to their current hosting service no matter what, think again because you definitely aren’t locked in. Essentially, it’s fairly simple and has only seven steps: Sign up with a new hosting service. There’s lots (thousands actually) around though, as we’ve found, not all ... More About: Internet , Commentary , Hosting , Change , Service
Thinking about saving?
2008-04-09 20:35:00 If you’re considering putting a little money aside, then the range of organisations around that offer savings and the range of products that each offer can be bewildering. Where do you start? Although the names may differ, savings accounts are fundamentally a fairly simple product once you strip away all the marketing speak. Your first choice is whether ... More About: America , Finance , Saving , Thinking
The websites are on the move AGAIN!
2008-04-09 20:06:00 It’s only been two weeks since we moved the websites on the America n hosts from Powweb who couldn’t even manage to get the basic hosting account set up first time which says something about the poor quality of their support as they only offer one hosting plan so it should be a click and it’s ... More About: Internet , Commentary , Websites , Move
Live TV on your PC? in one place
2008-04-08 21:51:00 There are hundreds of TV channels being broadcast over the Internet , if only you could find them. Internet TV isn’t an overlly easy thing to track down as it’s generally buried in the midst of the normal websites for people like the BBC, CNN and, of course, a whole host of shopping channels. However, Freedom TV have ... More About: Immigration , Live , Place
Getting Umbuntu operational
2008-04-08 21:22:00 Or rather not. The basic system is working very well on the computer but I’ve two problems that are stopping me from abandoning Vista at the moment. The first is the wifi card. I’ve spent ages trying out the various “solutions” that I can find and, so far, none of them work. My guess is that I’ll ... More About: Commentary
Choosing a new web hosting service?
2008-04-08 12:39:00 You’d think that choosing a new hosting service for your sites would be a fairly easy affair but the choice available these days makes it something of a chore. In fact, there are two separate things that you’re doing which complicates life a little more. First of all you need somewhere to register your domain name ... More About: America , Internet , Hosting , Web Development , Web Hosting
Fancy a custom t-shirt?
2008-04-04 22:11:00 Sometimes it seems like all t-shirt shops have exactly the same t-shirts as all the rest of the shops, doesn’t it? It doesn’t need to be that way as custom T shirts are almost as available as the shops are these days. As well as the usual selection of standard decals, you can design your own t-shirts by ... More About: America , Shopping , Shirt , T-Shirt , Custom
How can you keep the quality of your blog up?
2008-04-04 21:51:00 One of the problems that you find when you’re blogging quite a lot is in keeping the quality of the posts up. Many bloggers seem not to bother with quality and end up producing a steady stream of short posts that are barely in English and often total drivel. OK, I’ll admit that the “drivel” comment ... More About: Blog , Quality
Rent to own: an alternative to buying on credit
2008-04-04 21:39:00 Although normally quite low key, the rent to own industry is a very substantial business amounting to almost $7 billion. What is it though? Essentially, it’s a means of purchasing a product (typically furniture) by effectively making rental payments but with an agreement with the store that you’ll own the product after a set number of payments ... More About: America , Buying , Finance , Credit , Alternative
There?s never just one bus, is there?
2008-04-04 20:31:00 Just as there never seems to be a single bus around, so too it seems to be with house buyers. With the market having slowed down considerably in the UK, selling in markets that are dependent on that market is also pretty slow. However, that seems to be changing as we’ve now had three quite serious ... More About: Marketing , France
How will we do the move this time?
2008-04-02 21:03:00 Last time around, we hired a truck and did the move ourselves. I thought it was a bit of an adventure, Wendy said “never again” so it looks like this time it’ll be professional movers that’ll be doing the work. In practice, there’s a whole range between letting the movers do it all and doing it ... More About: America , Time , Move
A possible sale?
2008-04-02 20:51:00 We’ve had our place listed with several estate agents for a while now and had sort-of settled into the thinking that it would sell “sometime” but probably not that soon. These days, you get a lot of “window shoppers” when you’re trying to get a decent price for your place and we’ve had our share of ... More About: France , Sale , Home Improvements
The tunnel out of Microsoft is nearly dug?
2008-04-02 20:34:00 It took five and a half hours to download yesterday but finally I’ve got a DVD with Ubuntu (Linux) on it. Setting up the computer to run both Vista and Ubuntu turned out to be surprisingly simple. All that I needed to do was to shrink the partition that contains Vista to make some room to ... More About: Commentary , Microsoft , Web Development , Tunnel
Looking for a car loan?
2008-04-02 20:09:00 Looking for a car loan used to be a thankless task involving running to your bank to beg for some cash but these days car loans are a good deal easier to get. Car finance is one of those areas of your financial life when it’s usually reasonably easy to get the money that you want ... More About: Finance , Loan
What?s with all the Vista updates?
2008-03-31 21:28:00 Is it just me, or does everyone out there think that Vista is rubbish? I’ve a nice new Vista ready computer that came with Vista Business installed yet it will only run for about two hours before it hangs up. Not only does it hang up, but it stops working in a very peculiar way: when ... More About: Commentary , Technology , Updates
Have you more month left than you have money?
2008-03-31 21:07:00 If that sounds like you then one option that you could consider is a payday loan. The online payday loan market is massive, but what’s a payday loan anyway? Basically, it’s a short term loan that’s given to you with the intention that it’s repaid out of your next paycheck. In practice, that means that it can ... More About: Money , Left , Month
Will our little American adventure be worth all the hassle?
2008-03-31 20:49:00 Ah, now, that’s the question, isn’t it? The original idea for the plan was hatched when google started offering to let you label sites as being targeted at specific countries. As a trial, we popped the twins of some sites on either side of the Atlantic and monitored them to see how things went. Naturally, the profile ... More About: America , Internet , Commentary , Web Development , Adventure
A car insurance site with a difference: it?s actually useful!
2008-03-31 20:22:00 When you’re shopping around for car insurance, after a while it starts to sink in that all the sites are pretty much the same. Most of them are but one car insurance site that is that little bit different is Car Insurance Rates. Sure, it’s got the standard quote engine that all sites seem to sport ... More About: Shopping , Car Insurance , Site , Difference
A busy weekend of shuffling websites
2008-03-31 20:06:00 We had quite a busy weekend pretty much filled with shuffling the websites around which is always a depressing thing to be doing as you spend hours moving things and at the end you’re hoping that it all looks the same as it did to begin with. First off was the establishment of our foothold in ... More About: America , Commentary , Websites , Weekend , Busy
Have you ever been left wondering what insurance you REALLY need?
2008-03-27 22:04:00 If you’ve ever been left wondering if you really needed the specific insurance that you were sold, then FinanceGenius could be the site that you’ve always thought should be somewhere. Basically what they do is collect together a series of short guides as to what the various insurance contracts actually mean in reasonably clear terms (it ... More About: America , Shopping , Insurance , Left
What course next?
2008-03-27 21:56:00 Somehow or other I seem to be about to run off the end of my modern languages degree and have started to think about what I’ll do next. I’m not quite sure how I got to this point as all I really wanted to do was to be able to speak French better and six years ... More About: Commentary
Looking for a vacation rental?
2008-03-27 21:33:00 If you’re looking for a hotel in Orlando for your next vacation, why not consider a Orlando Vacation Home instead? Going down the vacation home option doesn’t mean that you need to cook all your own meals as you can easily dine out in the many local restaurants. What it does mean is that you’ll have an ... More About: America , Holidays , Rental
How reliable are hosting review sites?
2008-03-27 21:26:00 There seem to be as many sites reviewing hosting sites as there are hosting sites to be reviewed so perhaps it’s no surprise that just about any hosting service can find itself at the top 10 of the listings somewhere. The sheer number of hosting services available is just amazing too. Whilst I was looking for ... More About: America , Technology , Hosting , Web Development , Review
A dress for that special occasion
2008-03-25 10:15:00 All parents will know that the Prom is the highlight of a young girls year and most young ladies start planning their dress several months ahead of the big night. There is no need though for parents to worry about about needing spend a fortune in order to make their daughter look like a princess ... More About: America , Shopping , Dress , Special
Powweb finally gets back to me
2008-03-25 09:45:00 It’s taken three days and in the end I had to send an e-mail to their sales department saying that I wanted to cancel the hosting account to get any action. Now they’re saying that they are expediting the work on it. It’s still not working though and, supposedly, they’ve now been working on it for ... More About: America , Commentary , Web Development , Customer Service , Back
Thinking of running an intern programme?
2008-03-24 21:16:00 Intern programmes are something that sounds like a whole lot of trouble for very little return to many employers. That’s far from the case in reality. Sure there’s the hassle factor of bringing someone into the company for a short period but there’s also the major plus point that they’ll bring with them the very latest ... More About: America , Running , Thinking , Intern , Programme
American hassles on the powweb hosting
More articles from this author:2008-03-24 20:59:00 I thought that I’d run with powweb as our main hosting platform in America on the basis that Brooke uses it and she always seems to know what she’s doing computer-wise. Not a good move as it turned out. Uploading the databases and HTML was very easy and much faster than expected. But nothing worked… it took ... More About: Commentary , Hosting , Web Development , American 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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