Tonight’s Money Programme (' ‘The world according To Google’) on BBC2 was about the history, the success and the possible future diversification of the popular search engine, Google. Now I use Google a lot and to me it is an excellent, fast, free service. I can hardly ever recall clicking on an ad that was presented alongside a search (even if I am actually looking to buy something). I use Google Groups for searching for technical information as someone, somewhere at sometime has probably encountered the same problem as me and better, someone, somewhere at sometime has probably, kindly, provided the solution. ...

The BBC have a program called ‘Pay off your mortgage in 2 years’. Tonight’s episode featured a couple from Cornwall with a mortgage of 90,000 GBP. The program is moderately interesting for the various ideas people come up with to earn extra income (not for the scrimping, living off baked beans and giving up alcohol). However, the program is spoiled by some very basic flaws. Firstly, any extra income seems to be tax-free. If they did raise 45,000 GBP in one year, the Inland Revenue would demand a significant element. It’s a shame but it’s the law, you see. ...

You spend 3 months watching your WordPress statistics bumbling along the horizontal axis close to zero. Some traffic dribbles in. The graph accelerates into 10’s of hits daily. You feel better. You will persist with this blogging experiment for a little longer. At this rate, it may soon be time to consider a proper blog using WordPress.org and Adsense to make the millions that eluded me during the dot com boom. ...

You can save lots of time and get even more things done by checking in online for your flight at www.britishairways.com. You can even change your allocated seat (sometimes) which is useful as BA will always allocate an aisle seat if your preference is window and vice-versa. Version 2.0 of the BA site (June 2006) will even include a brief description of your prospective neighbour in order to help you with this difficult choice. ...

I just think everyone’s out to get me. Search Term: +“Norman Brightside”+“Blog” Please, please don’t let it be the BAA security staff from T4.