purplerabbits

This Map of where no-one should live in the US has got me thinking about a long standing debating point with me - where to live when I win the lottery so as to assure a bearable old age. So for you Friday conversational topic, as set by Me - where is the world would you not live, and why? And is there, anywhere you'd suggest that is relatively free of/immune to inevitable natural disasters, global warming, oppressive regimes, killer creatures and diseases and violent rednecks?

[1] The latest threat to civilisation as we know it

I have made a list of films I can recall seeing on the big screen like ever in my entire life and it's still at under 70. So help me out, please and make me look less ad. If you can recall seeing a film with me please remind me about it. Any interesting memories you have of me relating to film would also be interesting - at least to me...

What sorts of food are really cheap? And are any of them healthy? I'm not a fan of baked beans, though I'd be interested in any way of making them edible, nor cabbage, but I'm trying to be open minded. I can't get to Asda unless I get offered a lift, but Tescos is perfectly possible. Recipes for using cheap ingredients would also be great...

www.ukpower.co.uk tells me that I can save up to £133 a year by doing joint gas and electric in an online account. What I would like to know is how hard is the online account bit, and does in work with Firefox (essential)? The top suppliers they recommend are London Energy Online and Seeboard Energy Online, neither of which I'm familiar with. would I be better going for a slightly smaller saving and chosing Scottish GAs, who already supply our gas and who do the boiler insurance (we don't have boiler insurance yet but I'm quite tempted by it.)

I want to cancel my Barclaycard since I never use it and I want to streamline my finances. But since I last contacted them the barclaycard phoneline has gone all automated and demands a security number which I do not have before it lets you in. Does anyone know how I can contact a human being and cancell my card for ever? I don't owe any money on it so they never write to me, and I tried emailing them from their web pages but didn't get any kind of reply...

Update: Success! Thank you Giles!

*opens purse, moth flies out*

I am rather sick and tired of having no money, even though I know that a) this is mostly All My Own Fault and b)I am not actually hard up compared to many people I know. I am, however you look at it, not quite living within my income, so I should like to throw the question as wide as I can and ask - what should I or anyone do to live within my income. Obvious ideas are welcome: even though I am usually the one giving this advice to other people, I seem not to be very good at it myself...

My computer has 256 MB NonECC 333MHz DDR Memory in one unit. It wants more. Which parts of that description do I need to match to get it and where can I get the most memory for it most cheaply?

Can you get a result for the Green Party out of who should you vote for? I have been trying for a while, and even cribbing from their document on What are the parties' actual policies I only managed to push my Green score up and my Lib-Dem score even higher. Me suspects a fix-up...

Gratuitous Icon Post

An invisible prize goes to the first person to identify it.

They will be going on my for sale pages but since it's Nightmare next week I thought I'd announce I'm selling my Demonia Transformer Boots. They fit a UK size 5 and have all the panels shown in the page I've linked to. They cost £80 so I'd like £55 if possible.

I won't be going to Nightmare, but if anyone wants anything from my Web pages in time for then I'm sure it can be arranged...