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…

I thought I’d check out my site stats to see how Google Chrome is doing (now that I know Google Analytics can track it separately) since it was launched on the 2nd. The least techy of my sites is BMTG, which garners just 1.67% of users from Chrome. Next up, Copy+ is 3.55%. This site…

These days I try and keep my toe out of politics – particularly if it’s the politics of another country. However, when that country is the US and anybody voted into a position of power will therefore have a big influence on the rest of the world, then I’m interested. Sarah Palin I worry about.…