Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

Vodafone topup, html character entity problem, proxy error

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 ...

Compare cheap car insurance quotes at Google. Save money!

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 ...

Foreign Exchange data from Central Bank of Russia

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 ...

Having your own printer is so last century: online printing services

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 ...

Wind power in Malaysia – the missing map

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, ...