I advised my friend to use uppercase / lowercase / numbers / special-characters in her password to make it more secure. On hearing this my friends Bill and Andy errupted into a disputatious frenzy, arguing that password length is more important than the range of characters. I was shaken enough to try and …

I took a photo when they came to test for air pollution at my house. Thankfully no pollution was found.

A paper from the day I was born.

I was walking to pick up a package from a depot outside Bristol, and I came upon a horse.

A delicious meal …

Strange fits of passion have I known:
And I will dare to tell,
But in the Lover's ear alone,
What once to me befell.

I think this is where the title of the Anita Shreve book comes from. It's one of those books where you know what's going to happen …

I read an article and was moved to write the following email:

Dear Scientific Alliance,

I read with interest your news letter entitled Phasing Out Subsidies:

http://www.scientific-alliance.org/scientific-alliance-newsletter/phasing-out-subsidies

While I agree that subsidies for renewables should be phased out, surely subsidies for all sources of energy …

Opinion seems divided on whether it's a good thing that the UK Supreme Court has ruled that pensioners don't get priority if a company goes into liquidation. I like the idea of the stakeholder pension, which sidesteps this problem.

The door of the freezer compartment of my fridge has broken, and as it's quite old I've bought a new one. Have I made a good choice? Btw, I've been getting lots of comment spam recently so I've disabled anonymous comments :-o

You can now comment on a policy in Polifesto. Here's a policy with a couple of comments. This policy, 'Citizen's Income' is also the highest rated policy, with 300 points. One of the next things to do is a notification system where you can received email notifications for new versions …

Customer service is expensive. If you want good customer service then you pay a higher price. Most people (me included) want cheap stuff, so we put up with poor customer service.

Incidentally, with a citizen's allowance, labour costs would drop and so you'd get better customer service at the same …

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/27/this-mugs-got-my-name-on-it
Tony, hire does your vision of free markets deal with the actual reality?