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  • Tax avoidance – scum?

    Recently companies that are taking measures to avoid tax (legally) have been big news. The newspapers in particular, keen to take recent heat away from themselves, are making big issues about it. And it’s seen a rise in people rallying together and taking things into their own hands – in this case by often refusing…

  • I wonder why I still use Facebook

    Sometimes you don’t always want to know everything about your friends. Going out for a drink, have a laugh, etc, is all great but I suspect you don’t necessarily want to know their prejudices and the various other character skeletons that they may be hiding. None-the-less, this is what Facebook does.

  • Why I’m moving away from Samsung

    I’ll admit, I’ve been a bit of Samsung fan. My TV, my wife’s and daughter’s laptops and my phone are all made by this electronics giant. However, when a few months ago I declared to friends that my next phone wouldn’t be a Samsung they were surprised. Samsung Android phones are generally seen as the…

  • How much DOES Google track you?

    Google Now is Android’s own personal assistant. But upon first using it I was surprised to find out just how much it already knew about me. But how and should I be worried?

  • Sainsbury’s doesn’t want my money

    All I wanted was to use £50 worth of Sainsbury’s vouchers to buy a Nexus 7. Did Sainsbury’s sell them and, if so, where? Surely this wouldn’t be a difficult task, would it?