As far as the costs of the transaction are concerned at least, which was surprising to me given the £15,000 in various B.S. fees we had to pay to get our new house last year.
This information is part of a recent OECD report
Today Google launches a new version of Google Goggles that’s faster and smarter than ever before. The new Goggles 1.3 client for Android can scan barcodes almost instantly. All versions of Goggles can now recognize print ads in popular magazines and newspapers. Finally, Goggles has also learned a fun new trick for Sudoku fans.
Google Goggles 1.3 with improved barcode scanning is available for download in Android Market. Recognition of print ads and Sudoku solver is now enabled for the Google Goggles app on Android, as well as the Goggles component of the Google Mobile App on iPhone.
What a mad weekend so far, from a lovely friday off, out together in central London where me and natasa to getting home to find the boiler misbehaving again, it seems to have fallen out with the thermostat, took ages to get it heating the house again, and -5 outside was no joke.
Then this morning we speed off to IKEA in wembley, quickest journey there ever and the place was almost empty not the packed stress it usually is, however.. we get out to almost not find the car it was so snowed in then I think how the f*ck we are gonna get home the same day.. totally ungritted roads were hell to drive, the news said the whole of brent cross shopping centre was shut down for the day due to the dangerous conditions, we saw 4x4s doing 360s on roundabouts and HGVs that just couldn’t make it up slight inclines on the north circular, driving along in a soup of black ice at dead slow all the way hoping to get home without a bang, then couldn’t get the car on the drive without clearing the 6 inches of snow out the way first, certainly one of my toughest driving experiences ever along with the singletrack offroad in March thanks to tomtom, that was strictly for horses and motorbikes, fingers crossed the boiler does it’s magic and the snow disappears soon. It’s just madness…
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I don’t really know anything much about Abraham Lincoln much as many Americans know nothing about anything outside of America, however this morning I came across this post on 7 Must Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln which shows he had some great principles on life the ones that caught me the most were..
Prepare for Success
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”
Hustle
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Make the Years Count
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
See the Brighter Side of Things
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
Constantly Improve
“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can…”
