manuraivio.co.uk

Go to www.manuraivio.co.uk to see the blog I am currently not updating, as opposed to this one, that I wasn't previously updating. :D

The end is near

This Blog...lived once, and now we have reached the end.

There is something I don't like about Blogger. There is some element of pure control that I am lacking. Something, that just doesn't make it feel like it is actually manuraivio.co.uk ...

So I have paid money to a woman to set me up a webspace. And it is online now. My current Blog ha sbeen set up over there...

And I am going to go WP on your asses.

See developments as they happen at manuraivio.co.uk.

The end.

A Little Infrequency

Well now, as you may have noticed, there has been "a slight drop" in post frequency since late April...which seems to quite well coincide with the time when I really had stop all the nonsense and concentrate on my Undergraduate Dissertation and subsequently all my exams.


What has happened since finishing all that stuff?

I went to see the Foo Fighters at Wembley. They were monumental.

I moved to Birmingham and live happily with Vilkku in an apartment in the Jewellery Quarter.

I also participated in the Warwick Shootout competition. We were no good according to the judges, but had loads of fun while making the movie.
The film is on Youtube.

Then I graduated, see picture. Yippee. And now, I am unemployed. :D So I will have all the time in the world to post funny stuff.

Subscribe to the RSS I say !

One glass of wine is just fine. Twentyfive will make you shoot your wife (or lawn-mower).

When a machine refuses to work, whether it be high-tech or a simple coffee mill, most people will feel hate, distress, anxiety and desperation. Over a quarter of those will end up drinking or smoking to escape that sense of helplessness.

Personally, I think that a glass of wine (or a gin and tonic) is helpful in taking off that edge of your tech-rage. A second glass should help to just forget about it and do something different. A third glass most definitely will make you nonchalent to the issue at hand. The twenty-fifth glass, however, will make you get out your shotgun and take justice to your own hands.

The most stubborn machine

I believe this is the future of Parental Controls on computers.

That's all I can say now.

Ultimate Machine - the LeaveMeAloneBox

New Apple Product !

Design beyond function. I am so thrilled about this new apple "i".


The Apple "i"


Watch and witness as the new revolution begins !

"Lose the gumdrop buttons", says Tax Official to Gingerbread man

There is something about UK tax, which has for a while now mystified me. By 'something', I imply everything. But just when I thought to myself "Right, screw this, they're just weird and I don't care", I read this article on the BBC:

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Teacake set to cost taxman £3.5m

Well now.

The case seems to be that different kinds of biscuit and have different types of VAT on them. Which makes of course sense, because not all biscuits are baked equal ... (???)

Pheww...call me crazy, but...

for example, in order to avoid having to pay VAT on the little gingerbread men you bake for your kids' school's Christmas fair, you must refrain from decorating your creations with chocolate "unless this amounts to no more than a couple of dots for eyes". But if you use the the couple of dots for example to define the freshly baked little fella's endowment, you'll probably be liable to pay tax.

FREE TAX ADVICE: DO NOT PIMP UP YOUR GINGERBREAD !