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Not to mention the fact that you still have to train your dog in public. If you want your dog to behave when it meets a new person, or to not pull on it's lead, or to sit when you're waiting to cross the road, or to come back if you let it off you need to give it treats when it does what you...

Youtube advertising revenue is driven by the six million subscriber contingent. The majority of views are going towards the vloggers and videogaming channels who are making Youtube millions. It's all teenagers watching five minute videos on the bus home from school. I subscribe to a couple of...

Did it actually attack you aggressively, and what kind of breed was it? My dog is completely docile, and has never bit anyone aside from the normal couple of accidental nips when he got overexcited as a puppy and hadn't learnt not to yet. It's always in the back of my head, though, that he...

There's an issue here in that Youtube has one monetisation model for all videos. In the past, you'd go and find DVDs or books on whatever niche interest you had, pay money for it and learn. I believe that once you reach a million views YouTube pays $180 for every 150,000 views you get. That's...

On a related note I bought a set of drill bits from Lidl and while the ones for drilling metal and concrete (granted they don't get a huge amount of use) seem fine, three of the wood ones snapped in half mid way through drilling pilot holes. Lidl and Aldi tools seem entirely hit and miss. I've...

A friend had some done on what I believe is a fairly old house. It's the injected type and it has been a nightmare for them. I believe they've got the cold spots that Mike talks about and they're getting damp all over the place. My mum had the polystyrene beads pumped in to a late 19th century...

As obsessed as people in this country are with race, unfortunately 'English' isn't one.

I think the satisfaction of growing my own vegetables will probably be worth it, even for the fresh herbs alone. I get through a ridiculous amount of coriander and basil and I think that home-grown tomatoes will far outstrip the canned ones I'm currently using for my pizza sauce. I've been...

Hi, I have a few packets of vegetable seeds that need planting in the next few weeks. I hate gardening, but I cook a meal from scratch every day so I thought I'd cut down on some spending by growing some of my own ingredients. I've somehow managed to not kill my onions over winter, so I'm ready...

I have an ABUS one that kept my shed from being broken in to a couple of years ago. I bought a few cheap ones from The Range which all ended up at various levels of rusted and I had to break in to a few of my own doors at one point. The ABUS one is in the loft at the moment so I couldn't tell...

They didn't. Clinton got more individual votes, but the electoral college system means that the person with the most votes doesn't necessarily win. That said, historically there have been more than a few occasions where large groups of people have happily voted for someone 'odious'. I think...

I completely agree with David that losing weight is a simple case of calories in vs calories out. Having been on the keto diet successfully, however, I can tell you that it works like nothing else. I was doing it strictly, calculating my portions every day, and I found it incredibly difficult to...

I did keto for a year or so. I lost a stone in the first week as it drains your excess water weight almost instantly. I wasn't in bad shape, but I was a bit doughy so I just wanted to get the excess weight off. The way it works is that you reduce your carbohydrate levels to the point that your...

Let me know if you find anything. I'm 26 and I've found that apprenticeships for adults are almost non-existent. Much cheaper for employers to hire a 16 year old who still lives at home and who they can hammer in to shape than an adult.

I like angostura bitters in a cocktail. A gin sour with a dash of bitters is great.

Not having a shed after moving a while ago I've been doing a fair bit of baking. Works out cheaper than butchering wood. Made some muffins at the weekend, they didn't last very long. Also made a few disasters. It's amazing how much difference little things make, like letting your butter warm up...

If it's one of the Ice Bear ones like my 1000/8000, the reddish brown side is the coarser one. The cream side is the finer.

Wow, that's a lot of languages. I had a quick look and it's between C, Python and Java if I want to have a dabble. C will probably fall my the wayside as there doesn't seem to be as many good resources or a community like Python and Java have.

What did you end up doing?

I did try to teach myself Python about five years ago. Not sure what prompted me to learn that one and I was always unclear as to what the difference between each language was and what I could actually do with it. I got as far as programming a basic calculator then I think I had a busy few weeks...