Ian Winter » News http://ianwinter.co.uk Have you found the instructions yet? Thu, 13 May 2010 21:03:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 April Fools Day ’09 http://ianwinter.co.uk/2009/04/01/april-fools-day-09/ http://ianwinter.co.uk/2009/04/01/april-fools-day-09/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:25:54 +0000 Ian http://ianwinter.co.uk/?p=997 Quick round up of April Fools day ’09 pranks so far.

BMW always come up trumps and today is no exception with their excellent BMW Magnetic Tow Technology, also featured on the home page. We have the Guardian paper announcing Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink and Google announcing CADIE an artificial intelligence break through.

Chris Moyles on Radio 1 also announced “April Fuel Day” where by ringing up you could get a password and get half price fuel at selected garages. This made more amusing by the fact even after they’d announced it was a prank people still called in!

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]]> http://ianwinter.co.uk/2007/01/25/follow-bbc-news-via-twitter/feed/ 0 UK Road Tax http://ianwinter.co.uk/2007/01/15/uk-road-tax/ http://ianwinter.co.uk/2007/01/15/uk-road-tax/#comments Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:00:00 +0000 Ian Not a habit to post email chain style letters, but, this one is actually important and will stop the government charging us the British tax payer even more to drive on the roads!

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THIS IS REAL AND IT IS A PROPER GOVERNMENT SITE!

The government’s proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it.

The tracking device will cost about £200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was £28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver.

A non working Mum who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit* you can expect and additional fine with your monthly bill.

If you care about our freedoms and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10′s new website

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin killed

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We shall see.

]]> http://ianwinter.co.uk/2006/05/31/microsoft-debuts-security-package/feed/ 0 America Online to rebrand as AOL http://ianwinter.co.uk/2006/04/04/america-online-to-rebrand-as-aol/ http://ianwinter.co.uk/2006/04/04/america-online-to-rebrand-as-aol/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 22:48:00 +0000 Ian Taken from BBC News the announcement that America Online to rebrand as AOL, I suppose Time Warner have loads of money, why not do something daft!

I’m sure major corp’s have their reasons, like Intel recently, but I’m still not sure on major re-brands when they’re household names. I guess it does generate publicity and refresh the image, but still, is it worth it? I’m sure marketing folk (eek I said folk when I’m not American!) will argue otherwise.

Still won’t make AOL a company I’d recommend, sorry!

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]]> http://ianwinter.co.uk/2006/04/03/april-1-2006/feed/ 0 Light Saber workout http://ianwinter.co.uk/2005/10/26/light-saber-workout/ http://ianwinter.co.uk/2005/10/26/light-saber-workout/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:32:00 +0000 Ian Yes, you read that correctly. Use the force to navigate to the Fitness First site and become a fit young Jedi!

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Full Story: BBC – Yahoo! News

]]> http://ianwinter.co.uk/2005/10/07/bush-claimed-god-told-him-to-invade-iraq-afghanistan/feed/ 0 Transplant cures man of diabetes http://ianwinter.co.uk/2005/03/09/transplant-cures-man-of-diabetes/ http://ianwinter.co.uk/2005/03/09/transplant-cures-man-of-diabetes/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:19:00 +0000 Ian This is of personal interest to me as I’ve had Insulin dependant diabetes since 1996. Hopefully this will progress and become available to all.

BBC NEWS | Health | Transplant cures man of diabetes

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