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Sub-Optimal Methods Of Trans-Continental Travel

#1 Tandem Bicycle. My former neighbours received a tandem as their wedding present which allowed them to spend their honeymoon cycling across the Alps. Each to their own and so on, and I must admit that I do own a two-wheeled contraption that occasionally does more than 100 miles a week/tries to kill me. However, […]

For Everything Else, There’s Desperate Phonecalls

Flying to London - €48
Having your German mobile phone search the internet for about five hours on an “International Roaming” rate - I dread to think.
Not being able to upload anything to your own site - annoying.
Discovering it was because the contract on my server ran out on Feb 14th - not really priceless, the […]

Viral Marketing

I’m sure that Mr. Sparky could tell you a lot more about viral advertising than I could, although having received this advert from three different sources so far this morning, I reckon they’re doing a pretty good job.
“Brüller“, “sehr witzig” and so on the e-mails were titled. All I could think of was that the […]

The Apothekerin

Or “Utterly Useless Tips For The Pathetically Single #157”
In Germany, at the end of every single TV advertisement for a product that might be sold at a pharmacist, be it medicated shampoo, cough lotion or the latest opiate derivative a warning appears and is read out: “Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen lesen Sie die Packungsbeilage und […]