I want to be a writer for The Onion. The Onion is so cool. Who wants to read boring old news? It’s all bad, so you may as well make it funny as well.
The Onion is a spoof news site from the US. It has all the things you’d expect in an online service: sports, [...]
Do you long for one of the flash new smarty-pants phones? But are loath to abandon the multi-hundred pound investment you made in your existing phone?
Despair not. You can get cash for your old phone. You just need to find a mobile phone buyer that will give you cash for your existing phone. The better [...]
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Number 5: King’s Ransom (2005)
Starring: Anthony Anderson, Jay Mohr, Regina Hall, Loretta Devine
Synposis: Successful but boorish business man Malcolm King and his mistress plan his own kidnap after his wife threatens a costly divorce. He will be ransomed for a substantial part of his fortune, which will be kicked back to him. [...]
The best option for lines to and from your ISP depends on what your requirements are.
The cheapest is asymmetric digital subscriber line, or ADSL. This has good download capacity, but very small upstream capacity. It is most often used for residential purpose, for users who like to browse the internet but don’t need to send [...]
In six weeks or so New Zealand will be holding a citizens’ initiated referendum. The question is: “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
The question is causing considerable consternation. Leaders of the two major parties, John Key (Prime Minister) and Phil Goff, have both said [...]
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A 22% increase in people not renewing or cancelling home insurance has insurance brokers worried.
Graeme Trudgill, corporate affairs executive at the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA), has commented that it is extremely risky for people to scrimp home insurance to try and save money. “Of all the insurances that you do choose, the household [...]
Passion has the power to move mountains, to change a culture, or just to change a life. Sometimes it’s the hots for a sexy chick or hunk, or maybe a flaming desire for the latest stereo gear. Is it simply an emotional state, and an unstable and undesirable one at that?
We can ask the Irish [...]
I find it unbelievable that in this day and age there are people who don’t have a mobile phone. In the West, of course, I’m not including people who don’t have clean water to drink. Got to get your priorities right – food, water, shelter, arms, then mobile phones and laptops.
A few years ago my [...]
My pre-teen daughter, who is approaching those years when hormonal changes wreak havoc with the loveliest of children, and the mildest expression thereof is facial pimples, informs me that toothpaste is a treatment for said eruptions.
I was quite amazed. Foremostly that she knew something that I didn’t. But also that there is a cheap treatment [...]
Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) connections, which have been around for a number of years, are gaining popularity. SDSL is a halfway house between ADSL (suitable for residential use), and frame-relay or leased line connections (for large corporate users – high data transfer rates but also very expensive). SDSL internet connections do cost more than [...]