Something you will discover about India is that there is a huge patriotic streak that runs through every citizen, but it only surfaces when they feel threatened, or as I believe, insecure about something – I have sat through frequent rants about how India is so much more enlightened and a better country than the West will ever be, usually after having made an innocuous statement like “India...

Part of being a grumpy young man is the ability to find something to annoy you in every conceivable situation. The situation that has been getting on my nerves recently is people’s Neanderthal like behaviour the moment they step on to an aircraft. It first really came to my attention when I took low cost airlines around India (which, if you were to compare them to the no-frills crap we have in...

There is a great scam in England that goes by the name of budget airlines. They tempt you in with great prices like London to Rome for a penny. Except it’s not London, it’s Luton and it’s not Rome it’s some provincial town 30 miles away. Upon further investigation you discover that the actual flight that is a penny is at 5am. On a Wednesday morning. In November. 2012. My ire...

So here I am, back home. Back in England and back to Western culture. India is wonderful of course, but there’s only so long you can go before you start craving the Western vices (like friends). Last year I managed 12 months, this year I didn’t do so well and had to come back after just 10 months. Well, I say had to come back, the words of my father are still echoing in my ears “son,...

Today has been a very frustrating day. The God of Karma has been saving up all my bad luck from the 14th August and rained it down on me all day. They say things come in threes, and I wouldn’t want to disapoint an old cliche with my own series of three unfortunate events. (I do find it a little odd that both this post and my previous one talk about bad luck, but hey ho, that’s the way the...

OK, this is a completely non-relevant post, infact, you can ignore it because it’s a rant at the insane stupidity of the excuse for professional business, otherwise known as the Student Loans Company. If anyone working abroad will testify, you have to let the SLC know that you are working abroad. This is all fine and dandy, they send you a form asking you how much you earn in your local currency...

This is a broadside shot at MeWebHost.com who have just deleted my PayPal directory from their servers. It provided a directory of thousands of merchants that accepted PayPal in virtually every category available. There was no warning sign, just an email landed in my inbox saying “your site is using too many resources and has been deleted under our terms and conditions”. And nothing else,...

The question I want to know the answer for is, is it just me, or is there no ready made off the shelf software that does exactly what you want? The reason for asking it is because when ever I start to build a new site I find that I become frustrated and worked up by not being able to find the perfect bit of software (free or paid) to do exactly what I need. Take for example a new website I’m...

There are plenty of awful adverts on TV, I’m sure people can reel off about a dozen ads that do their nut in too. I’ve got a couple of ads that really annoy me, not because they are bad ads (they are actually mildly amusing) but because the marketers that made the ads are so far off base and out of touch with the consumer market they might aswell be trying to sell AK-47’s to the Peace...

A few weeks ago I posted about how bad I though GoDaddy were and how bad the website interface was. Well, I was doing a bit of reading the other day and it turns out that I’m not the only one who has issues with GoDaddy (we should probably all sign up to therapy and get a group discount). While the whole RegisterFly saga was unfolding, there was one site that everyone went to called RegisterFlies.com. They...