I've just finished a rather epic 30 minute long phone call to Job Centre Plus to establish I'm eligible for contributions based JSA which given my advancing years is a not too shabby* £60.50 a week. I have an interview at the job centre on Thursday which should …

Well it took long enough to get there but finally iTunes is bowing to the inevitable. Of course I'm not the world biggest Apple fan so I don't see this as altruism on their part. When their market share is threatened they will act to maintain it and iTunes still …

I attempted to sort out my JSA claim today. Unfortunately everything has been centralised behind a single 0800 number. I can call it on my mobile but I don't really want to spend my first week of dole money paying for the call while I wait in the queue. Of …

Yesterday was the first "proper" day of unemployment. Despite the snow on the ground I still cycled in the long way round to pick up my redundancy papers. I then tracked into town to pick up a rabbit for the evening meal before finally relaxing with a bath. With all …

One of the games we got for the PS3 was the wonderfully cute physics platformer Little Big Planet. It could prove to be a very funky distraction. One of the things it does have is some very cute music. Previously if you were looking for individual tracks your options were …