Archive for the ‘Money’ Category
Friday, July 29th, 2011
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I've been re-jigging and polishing up some of the leftover code from spider.my and am now fairly happy with the way Shipping-Quote.net keeps its currency exchange rates up to date. I wanted to add another rates source just to fill ...
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
We needed to send a couple of small documents by post and realised - while we are in the 'No Fixed Abode' phase of our Keep-It-Simple-Stupid plan to move back to the UK - that another thing we don't have in our luggage is a printer. We're currently using a ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
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Just a quick note to myself really - many, many times online I'd replied to people saying "why doesn't Malaysia use wind power?" with my belief that it doesn't have any. I couldn't find a good source for that before today, ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer!
I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...
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