Winners and losers

My sister has just won a holiday to New York. I believe that etiquette in these matters is to quietly disappear for the relevant three days and come back in a good mood. NOT to phone everyone you know in rainy Scotland and tell them about it.

Personally, I have only ever won two competitions. I won four cans of Tennents lager when I was about eight (my Dad looked after them). Slightly more recently, I won second prize in a Vox magazine competition. I won a Terminator 2 Laserdisc. Unfortunately, I didn't win first prize which was a Laserdisc player to play the bloody thing on. Still in a cupboard if anyone wants to bid on it.....

Choosing a domain name

Are there any real domain names left ?? Having thought of hundreds of possible domain names, I now believe that someone has gone through the dictionary registering every word in the English language. That is why this is called diametrically. No other reason.

Apart from the lack of real names, there is also the danger that you accidentally choose a word that associates you with some odd sexual practice or foreign political grouping....

Possible examples of this lack of research include the fine people at www.bjservices.com/, or PowerGen in Italy (www.powergenitalia.com) and as a last warning to the terminally dumb - the antiques exchange in London at www.antiquesexchange.com.