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I just helped my sister-in-law in her search for the right flatbed scanner for her home-based printing company. You might be interested in the places I use when I am shopping online for computer equipment.

1. Goldfish Guides is a fantastic comparison shopping service for home appliances, home entertainment and home computer equipment. [Goldfish are a Credit Card company that are building a bank and are part of the Centrica Group (which includes the AA, British Gas and One.Tel). They’re a really smart consumer-based company – I just hope they can keep being consistently good in all their companies.]

2. Jungle and DABS are the companies I would use for actually buying equipment. Of these two, DABS provides a really useful comparison service which probably gives them the edge in my view.

3. Although I haven’t typically gone direct to the manufacturers, I am starting to – take a look here for Dell’s direct site. It’s waaaaay cheaper generally, although you obviously don’t get the comparison benefits.

Today, my sister-in-law Natalie set up a website for her new company Duff Doodles. You can find it at www.duffdoodles.com. She does some pretty good postcards which we’re going to make available for sale.

Great article in the Times today about Jeremy Paxman’s interview with Tony Blair today. Here’s an excerpt –

“…As he squared up to Jeremy Paxman for a fifth-anniversary-in-office interview Tony Blair strained to sound firm, like Russell Crowe in Gladiator — (“My name is Maximus Blairus, Commander of the New Labour Armies, father of a maligned Cabinet, husband to a pilloried wife, and I will have my vengeance”)…”

The Times has just gone to a subscription model so unless you’re reading this today, this today you won’t be able to read the article for free at The Times Online. This move by the Times makes sense, but it’s still sad that the days of free web content from the major media companies are coming to a close 😦