Exterior lighting technology…
When it comes to protecting your home or other property there has always been a bit of quandary between the various pros and cons. You want to protect what is yours but you don’t want to ruin the night sky for everyone else in the area. You don’t want to collectively punish all your neighbours with your exterior lighting just because some neer-do-wells might want to rob or damage your property. There are new technological developments that make exterior lighting far more effective and targeted. Efficiency in such an endeavour is both a benefit in terms of money and its effective on your neighbours.
Do you want a referendum?
Conservative Home has a piece detailing the efforts to start a grassroots effort online to force Prime Minster Gordon Brown to give Britons a referendum on the life changing document that is the latest treaty between member countries and the EU. He is resisting efforts, even thought many of this own party want one. Pressure helps…
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Need help with invitations?
Having just gotten married and having used a wedding planner I can assure you its so much easier if you get professional help when planning a wedding. Finding the invites for the big day can be a right pain in the arse; especially if you want to do something interesting. So something like Wedding Invitations by InvitationConsultants.com might just be what you are looking for; if you are stuck for what you want. The site is easy to use and navigate. There are lots of choices to choose from. Planning for a wedding is a fraught affair; anything that makes it easier is always welcome.
No commentsHardline takeover of British mosques
“Almost half of Britain’s mosques are under the control of a hardline Islamic sect whose leading preacher loathes Western values and has called on Muslims to “shed blood? for Allah, an investigation by The Times has found.”
Is anyone the slightest bit shocked to read this piece? Well obviously many in government will be shocked as they can’t seem to be able to do anything about it.
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What England means to John Redwood…
“England is a summer’s day by a river in a wooded valley, an afternoon on the cricket field, strawberries at Wimbledon, and well kept gardens in leafy suburbs. It is seeing Shakespeare enacted at the Globe, hearing William Byrd and Handel. It is a way of life and a way of thinking.”
I participated in this exercise and should see my piece end up on the site fairly soon.
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Your Halloween Project
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that the innumerable readers of this fine blog are of exceptional idleness and indolence, at least when we survey their ad-clicking activity.
So I have decided to give you lazy sods no excuse for not preparing this ghoulish decoration* in plenty of time for Halloween. If you start now, you should have quite an impressive pile of rotting orange-colored stuff to put out on the doorstep come Oct. 31.
(*No, I have no idea why it has a guitar. Consider it optional.)
1 commentConversion info
Nothing is more bloody annoying that getting something in a format you can either not use or that you can’t work with. Its amazing how many people still send out things in outdated or useless format expecting you to work with them. If you find yourself in this sort of position then 101 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More might be just the post you want to bookmark and refer to in times of need. It might be good to send this link to whomever is sending you the useless formats as well.
No matter what format you are sent there is bound to be a conversion tool and/or advice out there. The page above is a good place to start.
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