Should the British celebrate Thanksgiving?

Should people in Britain celebrate Thanksgiving? After all, when those Pilgrims left our shores to set up their own colony and celebrated the first Thanksgiving nearly 390 years ago, we were rid of a...

MyLot Tasks Scam

According to a recent Alert, there have been Tasks posted which require a person to send money to the Task owner (I believe with the promise of a payment of double or more the amount paid). The...

Dangerous Email!

I just now received an email which read as follows:Hey contactnn,Because of the measures taken to provide safety to our clients, your password has been changed. You can find your new...

Have you ever worn your knickers back to front?

I have once or twice in my life (I think) been so otherwise engaged in the morning that I have put my underpants on back to front. Depending on the symmetry of the tailoring, one doesn't (as a...

Annoying adverts in MyLot

Have you noticed the new advertising ploy in MyLot? For the last couple of days certain words in discussions come up highlighted in blue and double underlined. If you hover your mouse over them, you...

A Right Royal Screw Up! MyLot has Halloween Gremlins!

Since yesterday, I find that I have been completely unable to respond to certain discussions or to send an abuse report. I noticed that one person and then many were posting duplicate discussions...

Would you give a knife as a gift?

My mother used to say that giving a knife as a gift was bad luck unless the recipient "bought" the knife from the giver with a small coin. If you didn't do this, the knife would cut off the...

If you could change your body ...

I was listening to a science fiction radio play last night (I think it was an episode of Dr Who) in which people were able to relocate their minds, personality and awareness into a new body if their...

"If it is to be, it is up to me!"

Do you like this little saying?It means that if you want something to happen - and if it's right for it to happen (that is quite important!) - then it is YOU that's going to make it...

Do you use IE and Google Search?

I received this notification from ZoneAlarm today:"Gumblar is named after the Gumblar.cn exploit, which so far targets users of Internet Explorer and Google search, delivering malware through...