The UE Boom 2 speakers are great speakers – you can connect a bunch of them together. With the 3rd edition coming out in the next few months, it seems that Amazon is trying to sell their remaining inventory of 2nd edition speakers at the lowest prices I’ve seen, down to £69 now available here. The larger, Megaboom, speaker (which is better, because it’s louder!) … Continue reading UE Boom 2 Speakers Now at Lowest Price on Amazon
If you see any of my home or office-cooked meals on Facebook or Instagram, you’d know that I’m a huge fan of cooking using sous vide. In essence, this is about cooking things (especially meat!) at a very low temperature, for a very long period of time. Amazon UK are currently (as of 21 November 2018) running some truly excellent sales on their leading sous vide … Continue reading Sous Vide Sales on Amazon
Here are ten simple things you can easily fix next time you apply for a job. They’re from the perspective of a hiring manager who has to filter through a bunch of CVs and resumes. When you save your filename, give it a clear and unique file name. The hiring manager is going to receive many applications. Many applicants will submit documents with the filename … Continue reading 10 Simple Things to Fix in your CV/Resume
Note: I have tried as much as possible to minimise the use of poker jargon throughout. If needed, an excellent glossary covering poker terms is available online at http://www.conjelco.com/pokglossary.html Once upon a time, “poker players were lumped together with petty thieves, drunks, prostitutes, and other degenerates.”[1] Further, the “presumed association of gambling with criminality is a common viewpoint.”[2] Today, many poker players are famous TV … Continue reading An Introduction to Ethics in Poker
I recently took the “Life in the Islands” knowledge test as part of my path to Manx citizenship. This is the booklet that prospective Manx citizens are expected to learn: Life in the Isle of Man Continue reading Life in the Isle of Man Booklet
It is normal for online services to send you an emailed notification when certain things happen on your account. For example, when you check-in to a flight with British Airways, they send you an email notification of this. When I last changed my password on PayPal, I got the email notification below: Included in this email notification is a request for the user (in this … Continue reading Improving Online Account Security: Instant Account Freezes
There is no point re-inventing the wheel. If you want to know where to eat pizza in London, follow the advice of Daniel Young who literally wrote the book, “Where to Eat Pizza” His guide on Where to Eat Pizza in London is online here. Continue reading Where to Eat Pizza in London
I think Sonny Bunch is the world’s best movie critic (for various reasons). His annual “Best movies of the year” rankings make for an outstanding group of movies to choose from. Continue reading “Movies I want to see”
The world’s three largest publicly listed online gambling companies right now: 1) PaddyPower Betfair – valued at GBP 6.861 billion 2) GVC Holdings – valued at GBP 6.232 billion 3) The Stars Group – valued at USD 6.113 billion (GBP 4.6 billion) Continue reading World’s Biggest Online Gambling Companies
A quick guide to a small number of burgers in these Isles.
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