| Mike Pound: Pick a remote, bang it on your hand
I tried to turn the up the volume on one of our TVs the other day and instead I either opened our garage door or launched a nuclear missile. Mike Pound: Pick a remote, bang it on your hand I tried to turn the up the volume on one of our TVs the other day and instead I either opened our garage door or launched a nuclear missile. We have a lot of remotes in our house. Some of those remotes are from TVs that we used to own but have long since died. Some of the remotes are from CD players that we used to own but also have long since died. By the way, for some reason, my wife and I have had bad luck with CD players. Normally what happens when we buy a CD player is that it will work for a few months and then it will stop working. We don't know why that is, but it is. Right now we have four CD players in our house and only one of them works.
Speaker on brink over expenses
It can be used for mortgages, rent, utility bills and maintenance. A spokesman for Martin said he used it for his Glasgow home.Martin also claims £7,595 as Incidental Expenses Provision (IEP), which can be used to meet the cost of running an office. As Martin's house is his office, this too pays for his home.Martin bought his luxury detached home in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, in 1998 for £173,000. Local property records suggest it has now easily doubled in value. Land Registry documents suggest he did not take out a mortgage on the property. Although Martin has not broken the rules, critics are now demanding to know why, if there is no mortgage, he requires such large sums of expenses to help pay for it.Earlier this month, the multi-millionaire Conservative MP Michael Ancram was criticised after he used the ACA to clear moss from his mortgage-free home.Former independent MP Martin Bell said last night: "Of course this is in the rules – the House of Commons sets the rules.
Online Scrabulous craze stuns game sellers
Scrabulous, which most players use on the Facebook social-networking site, has a board that looks just like Scrabble, and the same number of letter tiles with the same point values. Players can send invitations to others on Facebook or search for strangers to play with by posting a message. There is no time limit for moves or games. Scrabulous keeps track of player statistics, and it does not allow fake words. It cannot, however, prevent players from cheating. One method is an online "helper" program, which generates a list of possible words based on the letters a user has. Fans threaten boycottTwo digital game companies, RealNetworks of Seattle and Electronic Arts of Redwood City, Calif., say they have signed deals with Hasbro to create online versions of the company's games.
Internet Explorer 8 beta testing begins
No date has been set for the public release of IE8, but according to reports Microsoft will show Internet Explorer 8 at MIX in March. Following some criticism of IE7, version 8 is expected to more fully comply with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards. W3C attempts to ensure cross-browser and -platform interoperability. Rival browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox comply with W3C standards more the IE. Latest Microsoft news - click here See also: Safari 3.0 for Windows review Internet Explorer 7.0 review Firefox 3.0 review Get the latest internet news, reviews, tips and tricks from Broadband Advisor .
Mike Luckovich
Even if we drilled it still wouldn't affect our oil prices unless more refineries were built. It's time for the US to get off of its oil addiction. We shouldn't ask for lower oil prices, we should ask for new technology. Asking for lower oil prices is only prolonging the inevitable, which is little oil reserves left and extremely high oil prices. You're only denying the ability for the US to be the leaders in world technology if we do not give manufactures reasons to create new energy sources, new cars, or the ability to create new jobs for the future. Why are we letting something from the 19th century drive the technology and economy of the 21st century? It's time we moved on to bigger and better things or one day China and India will have that breakthrough, while we're left in the dust beholden to yet another country for our energy needs.
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