22nd July 2006
Golf was invented in Scotland, and dates back to at least the 17th century, possibly even earlier – the name is believed to come from an Old German word, 'gowf', meaning a club or bat. The oldest golf course in the world is Musselburgh Links, but there ar...
22nd July 2006
The rules of golf are relatively simple once you know them, but they take a while to explain. If you're not even sure of the basics, read this: the object of the game is to hit your ball from the start (tee) of each of the 18 sections of the course (holes...
22nd July 2006
Sony was started in the aftermath of World War II, during the rapid reconstruction of Japan that gave birth to its world-leading electronics industry. The company originally had a Japanese name, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (TKT), but the founder changed this feel...
22nd July 2006
It used to be the case that Sony laptops were very much better than others – they had much better build quality, better components and so on. Lately, though, Sony has been cutting a few corners to try to maximise its profitability, believing that once the...
22nd July 2006
If you try to buy green tea in a supermarket – even in a very large one – the chances are that you'll only find one kind of green tea: the kind with 'green tea' written on the packet. The green tea that these packets contain tends to be of the absolute lo...
22nd July 2006
According to Chinese legend, green tea was invented by an emperor who was out in the forest, and had just boiled a kettle of water on his campfire. Suddenly, a freak gust of wind put out his fire and blew leaves from a nearby tree into the emperor's hot w...
22nd July 2006
Healthy eating is one of those things that everyone wants to do, but no-one is quite sure how to. Food companies all want you to believe that all you have to do to be healthy is buy whatever you're selling, and people will pay high prices for 'health in a...
22nd July 2006
If you're going to eat healthily, you don't just need to balance your diet: it's no good eating just the right proportion of carbohydrate, protein and fat if you're still eating far too much food! That's why food labels also tell you how many calories the...
22nd July 2006
Internet banking is becoming more popular with each passing day. Fewer and fewer people are ever going to their banks, preferring instead to use the Internet to manage their money, check how much they have and pay bills. You can even pay in cheques by pos...
22nd July 2006
The biggest concern that people have when they start using Internet banking is security. The media is full of scare stories about foreign hackers breaking into thousands of bank accounts and draining out all the money, leaving some poor old couple missing...
22nd July 2006
In any gym, you are going to find that the main features are two things: weights and weight machines. This is because weight training is such an important part of going to the gym: it is one of the most energy-burning kinds of exercise you can do, and it ...
22nd July 2006
Apart from the weight machines, some of the most effective machines in a gym are the walking, running and climbing machines. Walking and running machines include steppers and treadmills, while climbing machines have pedals that you push with your feet, ma...
17th July 2006
As our society becomes more and more technological, cold and urban, ever more people are starting to feel the urge to get away from it all, take a break from modern life and go back to the way things were for our ancestors. Perhaps this explains the risin...
16th July 2006
Calling cards are those cards you get handed to you on the street sometimes, or see advertised in corner shops. They're a cheap way to call internationally – much cheaper than a normal landline phone – and they're getting more and more popular as more peo...
16th July 2006
Whether it's in your bedroom, your bathroom or your kitchen, cabinets are a good place to store all sorts of things. Despite that, you tend to take them for granted – that is, until you need to replace them.
If you need to get new cabinets – whether it...
