Archive for the ‘Money’ Category
Monday, November 19th, 2012
What do you do when you can't communicate with a web-based organisation using their own 'Contact Us' method? It's frustrating, so I'm going to copy this here. I've just topped up my prepaid mobile phone using a debit card on Vodafone's website. I got a confirmation text saying
Thank you for ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
Just renewed my motor insurance. I got a renewal quote from my current insurer (AutoNet) for £480 pounds. Typed "car insurance" into Google and spotted a funny little 'sponsored' box at the top of the results:
I don't usually click on the sponsored ads, expecting prices from sponsoring companies to include ...
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Friday, July 29th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1302" align="alignright" width="128" caption="The Central Bank of the Russian Federation"][/caption]
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 ...
Posted in eCommerce, Money, Shipping, Useful | No Comments »
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
[caption id="attachment_1252" align="alignright" width="150" caption="TNB's wind power in Malaysia map"][/caption]
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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