Slow It Down

As you get older, life seems to speed up. But do you ever wonder what you really do with your time?

www.wheredidthetimego.com attempts to answer this question. Simply type your details into this website and it’ll tell you exactly how much time you’ve wasted doing mundane yet essential tasks in your lifetime, like eating, sleeping and photocopying!

Speciality Foods

www.hardtofindfoods.co.uk offers a large range of speciality and gourmet foods that you probably won’t find on the shelves of your local supermarket.

The list of foods includes products from around the world, and you can fill your cupboards with speciality herbs and spices, oils, vinegars, pickles and preservatives. So whatever you’re looking for, let this website find it for you!

Crazy Hobbies

www.mycrazyhobby.com is about one man’s unusual penchant for street signs and traffic lights. His extensive collection has been acquired legally from online auctions, at antique stores and flea markets, and once in a while, a highway department offers him old and disused signs and lights. So if you’ve ever wanted to see a massive collection of old street signs and traffic lights, then this is the site for you!

Caffeine Curse

With subsections like Death by Caffeine and How Many of Your Favourite Caffeinated Drinks Would It Take To Kill You, you get the impression that the creators of www.energy fiend.com don’t sit around sipping frothy cappuccinos all day.

In fact, you might even be right to assume that they’re decidedly anti-caffeine. If you too believe that caffeinated drinks are evil, then check out this site for some like-minded information.

All Cures

If you’re a bit of a hypochondriac or just can’t be bothered going down the local chemist, log on to www.allcures.com, which is the UK’s first online pharmacy.

There are lots of big brands and a wide range of products available, as well as toiletries, beauty and alternative medicine. You can even arrange to have your prescription delivered to your door for no extra cost.

Turn Tricks

If you’re a bit strapped for cash and fancy doing something a bit unusual to raise some funds, www.youwhores.com is the site for you.

Don’t worry, you’re not expected to turn tricks, instead you can advertise what you are willing to do and the price you are willing to do it for. Sub-sections of things you can buy and sell include art, advice and the slightly more elusive category, anything. Everyone has their price – what’s yours?!

Death Becomes Her

www.mydeath.net is a slightly morbid website where you’re encouraged to think of your funeral as a celebration instead of a time for sorrow.

Here you can plan your ‘final party’ in as much detail as you want, and you can decide whether you want to be buried or cremated, at sea or inland, or at the crematorium up the road or even on a funeral pyre on the banks of the Ganges.

Professional Producer

If you’re ready to make the leap from bedroom music producer to a professional, then visit www.homestudiotips.com.

This site gives you a good opportunity to start recording like a professional and upgrade your skills.

You can join a network of musician and producers who will give you all the information you need, and may be able to answer all your production questions.

Maths Help

If you’re no whiz kid when it comes to maths, www.maths-help.co.uk is here to help. You can email your maths problems to the site and someone will email you back in a couple of days. You can also visit the knowledge bank to see past queries and answers. This basic site is updated every week and has even won an academic excellence award

Best Bars

Whether you’re going on a two-week jaunt or travelling around the world for a year, www.worldsbestbars.com is a site you should take a look at. Each time you go to a new place this site can lead you to the best place to grab a beer.

You can search places by alphabetical order, and many bars and pubs also have customer reviews. There are also features like Top 5 Cocktails and Bar of the Month, although as this could be anywhere in the world, the chances of you actually getting to it aren’t great!

Weighed Up

www.weirdconvertor.com is a great site if you’ve ever wondered how much you weigh in terms of potatoes. This site converts height and weight into completely unrelated items, so check it out to discover how many human eyeballs Jennifer Aniston weighs, or how many male polar bears would be heavier than a mid-size car.

More Radio stuff

Its been a busy week for me sorting out website reviews as well as putting some stuff together for my production library and making up a few demos as well as doing a bit of taxi driving. This blog seems to be attarcting the attention of lots of people who are interested in my website review of the day and just a reminder that this is also open to other radio stations. If you are a radio presenter and looking for a website review of the day then please feel free to use any that are posted on this blog.

As for other radio stuff, I have not been doing much in the way of presenting but have been involved in a bit of background work producing sweepers and idents for a few stations. The other thing I have been doing is trying to keep up with the live music scene so if you are a musicianm and yopu have a gig in Cumbria then please email me and let me know and we can get it promoted here for you. Best of all , its all FREE of charge and lots of people read this blog.

I still have some airchecks and snippets from my shows on various radio stations and will eventually get round to uploaidng them onto my youtube site.

If you want to see videos of guests in the studio with me then check out www.youtube.com/billclarkontheradio

Below is a short video demo I`ve done.

FinderMonkey

People-search services offer a quick and easy means of tracking someone down online. www.findermonkey.co.uk differs from most sites in several ways:

it’s UK-specific, it searches land registry documents to find details of property ownership and employs trained staff rather than algorithms to conduct each search.

FinderMonkey is straightforward to use, with the different search types (people, land, buildings and companies) presented in a clear manner.

However, this handy service comes at a price – it costs £4.50 to trace one person and £29.99 to conduct a property search

Funny Junk

If you’re the type of person that appreciates toilet humour and likes long lunch breaks, take a look at funnyjunk.com.

This website provides a whole archive of dark and silly pictures, videos and games to be played with. It’s fun and entertaining, and will definitely make a pleasant change from solitaire!

15 Minutes

Andy Warhol once said that one day, everyone would have their 15 minutes of fame. And if you’re dying to have yours, why not pay a visit to www.15minutesonline.com?

The site acts as a media agency for people that want to appear on talk shows, newspaper and magazine features, and as walk-ons for film and TV. For a small annual fee you get your own website to use as a promotional tool and put you in touch with different media.

Helen Of Troy

If you’re a fan of everyone from M.I.A to KT Tunstall, head over to countertopwritings.blogspot.com, and read up on the very best female music around.

This well-written bi-weekly blog offers reviews on new music releases and gigs, as well as opinions, comments and predictions on everything from feminist rockers to folksy singer-songwriters.

World Stats

If you’re a fan of up-to-date general knowledge and statistics, check out www.worldometers.info. This fascinating site has real-time world statistics, where you can watch as the global population increases by the second. You can also watch the numbers of people dying and being born each day increase, and also see how many tonnes of CO2 emissions are being pumped into the air on a daily basis.

Excuses, Excuses

Although you’ve probably just come back from your summer holiday, you’re sure to want some more time off soon.

But if you have no holiday allowance left, or you’ve run out of excuses for a day off work, head over to excuselist.com.

Here you can view an excuse for every occasion, ranging from days off work to getting out of an unanticipated date, very handy if you’re no good at saying ‘no’!

Celeb Shock

Gossip blog sites like Perez Hilton and Pop Bitch are well known the internet world over, with their bitchy take on the lives of celebrities. But there are lesser-known sites out there that offer even more salacious gossip and Hollywood news. Check www.breathoffreshink.com for shocking photos, online polls and all the stories about the lives of the A-listers.

Try Thai

If you fancy cooking up a storm for friends and family tonight, but aren’t sure what to make, take a look at www.easy-thaifood.com for inspiration.

From tasty Pad Thai to delicious green chicken curry, all the recipes are easy to create in your own kitchen and serve four. But be warned -although not all Thai dishes are hot, chillies are essential to Thai cuisine, so you may want to adapt them slightly if you prefer something milder!