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By John, on October 28th, 2010
Increasing eBay problem – users don’t rate transactions any more
As part of the preparation for moving to Spain in the not-to-distant future, we have been clearing out some of the things we have accumulated over the last 18 years in our present house, that we don’t actually use any more, and selling . . . → Read More: Poor manners on eBay
By John, on October 14th, 2010
Interesting facts about the Internet
Not only Africa is large (see the previous post), the internet is too. If you have 3-4 minutes, take a look at the slide show above (click on the screenshot to start it).
The first internet web browser to be created was Mosaic in 1993, which is . . . → Read More: The Internet is pretty big too…
By John, on October 14th, 2010
 A lot of the rest of the world could fit in Africa
If one thinks about it at all, then one tends to underestimate the size of Africa. In fact it is big enough to fit in most of Europe, the USA, Japan, India and China and then some.
Continue reading Africa is BIG
By John, on October 8th, 2010
The US clothing store Gap Inc. has a new logo.
Gap – old (left) and new (right) logos
Unfortunately it isn’t well received. In fact there is even a website called crap logo, where you can generate your own logo in Gap’s new style.
Perhaps I should give Keys Corner a . . . → Read More: Crap Logo
By John, on October 3rd, 2010
 Ruth in Valencia, killing time in the Cabecera Park until we could leave
We flew down to Valencia again on last Sunday to see Antonio, our architect, and sign the applications for the planning permission. We were surprised (almost horrified) at the amount of paperwork he had to prepare. I think he was a bit surprised too – the law has changed recently, and ours was his first project since the changes came into effect.
Continue reading Returned from Valencia – after some delay
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