Lengoo Rants – views on Life and London

Life, Ideas, Moans and, of course, Rants!!

Entries for November, 2007

Shopping in rip off Britain

As you know, I just got back from a holiday in Hong Kong and did a years shopping, hopefully, I won’t have to buy any more things in the UK for a year or so or until I get back there. As a comparison, here are prices of things which I purchased Hong Kong                   UK [...]

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Hong Kong, more efficient than the UK

Hi All, Well I am back from my holiday and what a great time I had. The British pound is strong at 16 HKD (Hong Kong Dollars) to the Pound. You get some real bang for your buck!! There are so many things which I can talk about my trip and my observations but one [...]

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Holiday in Hong Kong

Hi all, I forgot to mention that currently I am in Hong Kong on holiday and back in London over the weekend. Apologies to the one regular reader that I have! I probably have lost that one reader now anyway.. oh well! I just found this site http://hktour.blogspot.com/ which I am going to have a look [...]

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Is there any point to alarms?

I am referring to fire alarms, car alarms etc. I remember when I first heard a car alarm go off in the middle of the night, I woke up instantly to have a peek out of the window to see if I could see whose car was being burgled. It was pretty obvious which car [...]

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Monetizing your blog – step by step basics

Afternoon all, They say that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.. well, if it’s not you that’s paying then it is indeed free (for you anyway). Not that it makes much difference to my readers, I don’t have much of a fan club as yet but one day, I hope that people will [...]

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Photoreading – my thoughts after the course

In this day and age we are constantly bombarded with material. There are so many  interesting things in papers, articles, blogs etc. We truly are living in the modern age of information overload. A few weeks back, I thought I would try and address this problem by going on a Photoreading course. The claims are [...]

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Ladies and Gents toilets.. what actually happens in them?

After a series of meetings back to back this morning starting first thing.. I finally got my chance to make a dash for the toilet. The gents and ladies toilets are adjacent to each other in a central corridor so you if are a toilet spotter, you could stand in between and count how many times [...]

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Suppliers and how to deal with them

I’ve been working on a deal at work to get in a whole new super duper computer storage system. It’s a big deal and we’re looking at spending over £100k. Anyway, I have an original supplier who we’ve worked with for over 5 years. They have done a great job each time and are our preferred [...]

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Looking for a new WordPress template – building my blog

Hi all, If you’re just passing through right now, you’re probably noticing a lot of deadlinks and white space around here. I’ve been looking around for a new template and I am now using this one that I found floating around on the web. It’s a bit more complicated that some of the rest so [...]

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The problem with making websites for friends/family

Hi All, Something which I do in my own spare time is making websites. Over the years, I have had a string of clients who I’ve built websites for. These have mainly been for their businesses and a few of them have had some amazing success. One client of mine is a cosmetic surgeon based [...]

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