For those of you who follow me on twitter it might soon look like I’m talking like a pirate.
The reason? I’ve recently purchased a short url format to use as a custom URL redirect.
For the moment it only works with my blog posts and the BBC News website, and it’s only available to me (although if you do a RT nothing will break).
Anyway I welcome argh.tc to the collection of domain names I now own.
Random Parliamenty Question of the Day
Posted by Ryan Cullen | Posted in Politics | Posted on 13th October 2009
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Just picked this at random:
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61 Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect (a) whistleblowers and (b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by (i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and (ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.
Donut Flavoured Skips?
Posted by Ryan Cullen | Posted in Other | Posted on 6th October 2009
Tags: crisps, donut, doughnut, kp
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An argument in our office this week broke out. Simon claimed that he once had Doughnut Flavoured Skips. The whole team really didn’t believe him. Google searches found a couple of people claiming to remember them but nothing concrete. So I emailed United Biscuits (owners of KP) and got back this reply:
Hi Ryan,
Thank you for contacting us concerning Donut flavoured KP Skips. We can confirm that we did produce these and that they were discontinued quite a few years ago and are unlikely to be manufactured again.
Before any product reaches the shelves, extensive and costly product development and research is undertaken. Only a small percentage of new product concepts reach the retail outlet and even then, products may easily fail to gain the necessary appeal. Sadly, therefore, some products are removed from sale after only a seemingly short time.
However, a longer manufactured product may also be discontinued due to a falling off of popularity, resulting in it no longer being a viable product to produce.
Kind regards,
Sue,
Consumer Services Co-ordinator.
But this wasn’t enough for us, so I asked if they had any images and they came back with this photocopy found in the cupboard.
Which meant that Simon was right all along.