IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
Dummy text for dummies This much I know – it’s much harder to write an article of 250 words than one of 2,500. The word count of articles I’ve written…
IT Tips #7: use PureText to strip off unwanted formatting
Yet another copy-and-paste trick this: if you copy and paste text from a website, the likelihood is that it’s got all kinds of fancy text decoration, tables round it, different…
30 days without supermarkets #28-30: wrapping up
The last 5 days of the no-supermarket challenge were scuppered by spending them in Prague where at least for the first couple of days, I defaulted to Tesco because I…
30 days without supermarkets #27: My new briki
I finally threw away the džezva that I bought in a department store in Belgrade in 1979 last year. My recent discovery of Lebanese coffee at Daily Fresh in Tooting…
30 days without supermarkets #26: defeat in Prague and glory of kitchen departments
Much as I feared, I had to abandon the challenge today as the prospect of quickly finding a suitable independent food retailer in central Prague was as likely as finding…
30 days without supermarkets #25: Selling sugar, salt and fat cheap
It doesn’t matter how much you push the idea of healthy eating, low-fat options, fresh ingredients, 5-a-day fruit and vegetables and a well-balanced diet, if in the end you offer…