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Welcome back Paul, long time no hear! Beginning to think we'd upset you

That was bit of a bump, bit worthy one.

Seems we're not that quick to recommend someone else, or is it we just don't experience good service anymore?

Recently signed up with Heart Internet for a dedicated server, and was very slick and efficient. Very impressed, and I'm not easily impressed when it comes to servers

Mind you, ask me again in 6 months....

hmmm, good old site reference! They don't to leave their content up for too long

Linked In grows ever bigger and bigger!
The LinkedIn Blog Blog Archive 100 million members and counting?

Apparently I made it under the first million members: number 925699

Any really early members? Your member number is the number embedded in your LinkedIn profile URL (after "id=")

lol listen young Padowan, no need to SEO my keywords But thanks anyway.

I wonder how it is in other countries? I know Japan has (or had!) an amazing comms infrastructure, but what about other places?

The US has had a decent cable infrastructure for years, but the country is huge. How do people fare outside the larger towns and cities? I wonder if they have the same problem as the UK?

What about the rest of Europe? There must be someone we can analyse, identify with and learn from?

Are France, Germany etc really ahead of us, if so why? Is it huge central govt funding, or opening up the sector to more competition than we have?

It really is frustrating. All that 1990's hype about the information super highway is coming. More like a single lane farm track with road works

Tescos got the hump after customers have been comparing prices on promotion with supermarket rivals, and then claiming their Price Check double refund

"A very small number of people have used Price Check just to seek out products which a competitor has on promotion and to make some money out of our guarantee.
"We commend their ingenuity, but this isn't why we set up the guarantee."

BBC News - Tesco caps Price Check offer after paying refunds

lol, looks like they should have worked on the small print

lol maybe I'll get a free holiday? Got a great shopping centre, but the humidity is out of this world

You've got two yardsticks really, minimum wage and your concious

Although self employed peeps aren't entitled to the National Min Wage, they would be mad to take any less and it's border line exploitation if they do.

The other side is the worth and value of the job they are doing. If it's fairly basic admin work with no specific skill sets and can be taught in a couple of hours, then minimum wage is probably a good guideline, or just above so they can declare and still get the same take home.

But if they are bringing a real value to the business, and there is the potential to upskill or you want to keep them for a while, then as much as you can afford

So putting in the keyword of Singapore House Rental at the bottom of your post, doesn't that mean that this post is now competing against the site you are trying to optimise?