We’re officially in our final days, guys. The Mayans are coming! This, my friends, is apparently what the Mayan Calendar looks like. Just showing my naive, British youth there. I’m a bit lazy with my research, but from what I can gather it’s officially a year until this thing runs out. Bummer. I’m sure you’ve [...]
Tag Archive > December
Gender inequality and insurance
In case you missed the story because you were too busy doing something useful with your life, a European ruling has made gender discrimination in insurance policies illegal come the end of 2012. Now if you’ve never tried applying for car insurance at least, I’ll tell you now that currently guys – especially the young [...]
Raconteur in Retrospect: July – December
Huzzah! You’re back! So you read yesterday’s post about the review of the year from the first half, but what about the second? Granted it happened more recently so it won’t be as interesting (nor probably as long as I’m sure you’re glad to hear). But what did happen in the second half of the [...]
Raconteur in Retrospect: January – June
Well would you believe it it’s the end of the year already. It’s been a whole 365 days since you were (totally not, you bastards) reading last year’s recap. But hey, if you’re new this year, this is the recap of the year. Bit like the Big Fat Quiz of the Year, just with less [...]
The day I cancelled Xbox Live
Don’t get me wrong, I love Xbox Live. I’m sure there’s plenty of people out there who love it and would gladly pay more for the service. But there’s physically no way I can connect to it in my new house at uni. Sure, I could just run a wire down to the router thing, [...]
