Ian Gent's Blog

Here's a business model to die for.   A newish mail client for macs that you have to pay money for, called Postbox . It's based on...

SPOILER ALERT.   This post contains the solution to this week's   Car Talk puzzler . The puzzle is construct the number 55 using th...

I flew on British Airways to Lisbon and back this last week.     In a vestigial remnant of providing us with food service, they gave us sand...

Rang up Sky to cancel the sports package, since the cricket season is over.    The voice asked me to enter my phone number "including S...

Hubert Gent married Margaret Luke on July 5th, 1948, the very day the NHS was started.  Though I believe there were no calamities on the da...

I suppose that makes three things now .   The third one is that the displayed MPG calculation is always an overestimate.   It seems to be s...