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Used properly, the internet is a wonderful tool, but there are pitfalls, especially where kids are concerned. Here is a very common sense approach to the internet…Common Sense Internet Safety Guide…

How about a slightly different sort of tortilla recipe for a change? Here’s a recipe for a Potato and Roasted Bell Pepper Tortilla.

If you use Microsoft Word at home or for business, you can save yourself a lot of time, and potential heartache, by setting and using ’style’. This way, if you suddenly want to change something – make it bold for example – throughout a huge document, it is a simple procedure….Styles in Word…

Still on the subject of the Oscars, a very interesting view on the current state of the Oscars from the Daily Telegraph entitled Oscars 2010: What makes an Oscar winner these days?

A bit of college humour, or ‘humor’ as the Americans would have it, relating to the upcoming (yawn) Oscars…. Honest Movie Titles: Oscars 2010…

Do you work from home? Are you properly organised? Here are 11 Tips for Making Your Home Office Comfortable. The only addition I would make would be ’suitable’ music. For those who like to work with music going on, of course, not everyone’s cuppa.

Food blogs, of which there are many, are often very interesting, not just for new recipes but also on the ‘economy’ front. How about…1 Chicken, 17 Healthy Meals, 26 Bucks, No Mayo….

People have always liked to doodle and defacing money is a great pastime for some. Here is a collection of notes which have been artistically defaced…30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money…

The design and location of airports varies considerably so you’re bound to get a few odd or remarkable ones popping up. Here are The World’s 18 Strangest Airports…

We all type in a web address (URL) and voilá, up pops the website, but ever wondered how it all works, how you actually get there? Me neither, but here’s an explanation of What really happens when you navigate to a URL…

Ever wondered what it takes to be classified as a real ‘gentleman’? From the famous, and not so famous, here are… The Rules of a Gentleman…

OK, so you’ve got a Mac, laptop, desktop and mobile. often in different places, and you want to be able to access all of your files at any time. Or maybe your without a machine or phone and want to access those files online. Well, try the popular Drop Box or the new Live Mesh from Microsoft. Update a file on your mobile, for example, and it updates on all other devices as well as on the web…Drop Box…Mesh…

Google Buzz is the latest social media platform to be launched and given the captive audience of Gmail users, it has every chance of being a success. Here are some Google Buzz Tips.

Ever wondered what the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might have looked like if they had been created in the image of the artists they represented? No? Never mind, here they are anyway…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles As Their Artists Intended…

They could be classified as inventive architecture, eccentric or just plain weird, but they certainly are unique. My favourites would be Copenhagen followed by Prague…20 Weirdest Apartments of the World…

It is Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day – so here a a few recipes for quick and easy pancakes, complete with video…Pancake Day recipe: cinnamon, banana and chocolate crepes, Five Minute Food…

Yoghurts come from turkeys, eggs from sheep and the main ingredient of crisps are rabbit, plastic and sheep. This is a BBC report on how a large number of children in the UK are unable to identify the origins of everyday foods….Article…