Have you ever found yourself going to bed wishing you hadn’t eaten that last piece of chocolate cake, or had those extra glasses of wine? It’s usually in those guilt ridden moments as we fall asleep that we make a promise to start a diet.

The weight loss industry is a huge $£multi-billion success, launched on the back of our inability to lose weight. We’re surrounded by images showing the latest celebrity who’s lost weight and stories about the latest diet, guaranteed to shift those unwanted pounds. Continue reading »

I stumbled upon a cool tool today. It’s a Time Machine for emails. Sound weird? Whatever would a time machine for emails do?

The mini-app web page is very simply laid out. You fill out the details of the email address to send it to and the date you would like to be it to be sent. When that date arrives, it sends the email out. It doesn’t ask for too many details, like even who it’s from, so… How could it possibly be useful?

It’s advertised as something that could be used to remind you of an event in the future (I already use a schedule for that) or to send someone else a Happy Birthday message that you may forget later, that could be of some use, I guess.

So I gave it a few minutes of my time and thought about how it could really be useful. I came up with a few ideas, but here’s one that specifically relates to debt… Continue reading »