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  • Amazon “fall short” once again with their customer service

    So, on Tuesday, the 9-disc Blu-Ray set of the first 6 Star Wars films dropped in price to just £40 on Amazon. I’d been waiting a while for this so immediately ordered it – I rarely upgrade my DVDs to Blu-Ray but, in the case of Star Wars, I’m happy to make an exception. On…

  • Living with Sensory Overload

    For the last few years I occasionally suffer from something called “sensory overload”. Symptoms in those that experience it vary. In my case, sometimes, when I get to much sensory information coming in (lots of movement, lots of sounds) it causes me to be agitated and feel sick.

  • Charity Shaming – Please, don’t do it

    According to Urban Dictionary charity shaming is, “To coerce, force, pressure or intimidate another person to donate to a cause that one has personally deemed worthy”. Because, well, that wouldn’t be right, would it? To try and bully or shame somebody into either donating to or taking part in a charity event. But, sadly, it’s…

  • Pulling the rug from under your free users is NOT the way to get them to upgrade to premium!

    Isn’t that right TickTick? The time management company have recently, unannounced, decided to restrict their free users to just a handful of lists, whilst adding constant nags to upgrade to their premium service, and filling screen real-estate with options that don’t work for free users. Oh, and top it all off – they’ve raised the…

  • Boots Fragrance Offer

    Looks legit.