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On 17 and 19 May we visited London for work. Unfortunately we weren’t aware of the details of the London Congestion Charge scheme and have been issued with a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN). What is the Congestion Charge If you travel into central London (link to page with map of region) a charge is levied [...]

AQA exam board announced that they are dropping C, C# and PHP from their approved list of computer programming languages in the upcoming syllabus. Here are example exam papers from 2009. Example exam papers from AQA AQA Computing 2009 The following are AQA Computing exam papers from 2009 for units 1 and 2 of the [...]

26 Feb, 2010

Mystery 1600yo glass slab, incredible

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Came across this on a blog called futilitycloset, it’s full of quirky goodness but this just needed more investigation. The Mystery Slab of Beth She’Arim Huge glass slab made circa 400AD Making large sheets of glass is hard. Making a 2m by 3½m by 45cm slab of glass is awesomely hard to make. Even now [...]

20 Jan, 2010

Swine flu vaccine, is it safe?

Posted by: admin In: hints & tips|life & family

Informational pages on swine flu vaccination in the UK

Addressing whether it is fair to say that Haitians made a “deal with the devil” when they initiated the bloody revolution against their French oppressors.

13 Oct, 2009

Fear of Pickled Onions

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What is the name for a “fear of pickled onions”?




  • Anne: I recently came across a great product designed to solve the missing sock issue. It is a company called tucker'd (http://www.etsy.com/shop/tuckerd).
  • Dr Récupération données: Hi, I am surprised you don't mention DDrescue which is very powerfull tool and free. Maybe a bit complex for normal users? There is a script (drhe
  • Todd Smitts: Thanks! This helped! I always hated the squished look on some of my uploaded vids. They look much better now.

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