For those who haven’t come across Twitter but know of Facebook, it’s like everything stripped off of Facebook, just leaving the status function. Basically, you leave a sentence about what you’re up to and friends, relatives, whoever can view it. What’s interesting about Twitter is the level of integration that’s available. For example, the TwitterBar…

Don LaFontaine is the US voice-over artist that has put his talents to over 5000 movie trailers over the years. Sadly, on the 1st September he died aged 68. He had been performing voice-over work for over 25 years and was, according to his own website.. A voice actor famous for recording nearly 5,000 movie…

I thought the announcement yesterday about insulation incentives was great – free or discounted insulation for the old and poor. Throwing money at them to pay for fuel bills each year doesn’t make sense – long term insulation to reduce those bills does. So I find it more than a touch annoying when people don’t…

Let me start by telling you a story. Merck KGaA (EMD Chemicals in the United States and Canada) is a German-based chemical and pharmaceutical company. Merck was founded in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1668. Following World War I, Merck lost possession of its foreign sites, including the Merck & Co. subsidiary in the United States. Today,…

My manager has returned from a trip to the US. As is obligatory he’s brought something back for us – a couple of bags of Hershey’s chocolate. And one of these has their own version of KitKat in it (licensed from Nestle). If proof is ever needed that Americans don’t know how to make decent…