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What a wonderful idea. You can now enable a feature in Google Mail (Gmail) that autoactivates late on weekend nights to stop you sending drunken emails – basically, it asks you to solve a few math questions before allowing you to send the email. If you can’t solve the problems, it won’t send the email. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html
Mojacar is full of lovely old Chiringuitos or beach bars. Some have been in the same hands for 30 years. There used to be more, but the “authorities” don’t like them, saying that they’re untidy, ugly and within 150m of the sea. Of course they are, they’re Chiringuitos. But, of course, the “authorities” can’t distinguish between inoffensive family owned beach bars and huge multinational hotels, so the whole lot has to go. Fortunantly, Mari Rosa Continue reading 21st century chiringuitos being built in Roquetas
After a comment by “South of Watford” Graham about people finding his blog while searching for mine, I went back to the log files and spent a happy hour perusing it. Must do this more often as I do enjoy seeing how many mad people are out there. Believe it or not…. somebody came to my site after entering into a search engine the phrase: “i want to run a bar in spain but got Continue reading i want to run a bar in spain but got no money how do i do it
Having finally realised that yes, 89.8fm is a silly name for a magazine, the Valle Radio team have relaunched the magazine as Valle Radio Times. Continuing with the silly name bit, as “Valle” is “Valley” in Spanish, but as it’s continued by “Radio Times” in English, it just looks as if they forgot to add the y. It seemed a tad thin when I first picked it up. It’s the new standard format for magazines Continue reading Valle Radio Times (the old 89.8fm)