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Display your honeymoon registry in more than one language

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:54 +0100

Display your honeymoon registry in more than one language:

Our honeymoon registry service is uniquely suited to helping couples with international families. Because your wedding list is available online, any of your guests with an internet…

Wedding post boxes and honeymoon albums

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:32:24 +0100

Wedding post boxes and honeymoon albums:

We’ve always been big fans of the design work of Zoe Rusga, better known as Bunny Delicious. Her playful, handmade, and meticulously detailed wedding stationery is quite unlike anything else we’ve…

Perfect Wedding Hot Topic

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:47:01 +0100

Perfect Wedding Hot Topic:

The September 2010 issue of Perfect Wedding magazine has just hit the shelves, featuring Shelley’s expert opinion on the hot topic of whether it’s OK to ask your guests for money instead of a…

The Honeymoon Testers

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:54:47 +0100

The Honeymoon Testers:

Earlier this year, we were thrilled to learn that Mark and Denise Duffield-Thomas, who’d used our service for their wedding gift list, had won the Ultimate Job In The World competition. Organised…

Alternatives to PayPal

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:08:21 +0100

Alternatives to PayPal:

With Buy Our Honeymoon, your guests pay the value of their gifts to you directly. We don’t collect payment from your guests, and we don’t charge a commission on the gifts you’re given….

PayPal gift transactions

Fri, 21 May 2010 18:12:50 +0100

PayPal gift transactions:

At Buy Our Honeymoon, we don’t ever touch a penny of the gifts made to you by your friends and family, but your guests can nonetheless use a credit or debit card to make a simple online…

A quick note on the volcano

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:03:08 +0100

A quick note on the volcano:

Mercifully, it looks like flights are starting to resume in and out of Europe — but we know of many of our customers whose honeymoons are likely to have been seriously affected by the…

Buy Our Honeymoon turns 3

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:04:47 +0100

Buy Our Honeymoon turns 3:

It’s our third birthday! Back in 2007, we launched a new honeymoon gift list service in the UK, with what was then a completely unique approach — instead of taking a commission out of…

The Bride’s Book

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:10:49 +0000

The Bride’s Book:

We were delighted to learn that The Bride’s Book, an award-winning wedding magazine based in the Carolinas and serving the southwestern United States, had chosen to feature us in their new…

Refinements to big-ticket items

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:16:47 +0000

Refinements to big-ticket items:

One of the great things about your Buy Our Honeymoon gift registry is the flexibility you have in how to divide up and present the items on your list. As well as single items, which become…

10 more fantastic theme customisations

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:09:44 +0000

10 more fantastic theme customisations:

Back in July, we showcased some of the most exciting ways you’d all customised your wedding list pages using our design themes. We’re so proud to have such creative and talented customers, we…

The Stars Look Down

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:57:31 +0000

The Stars Look Down:

Sometimes, the comments on a blog post become something quite wonderful in themselves.

New theme – Vintage

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:24:32 +0000

New theme – Vintage:

We’ve now released a brand-new design theme for Buy Our Honeymoon — Vintage. Evoking the roaring forties or the glamourous fifties, it features a beautiful floral patterned background, a…

So You’re EnGAYged

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:26:36 +0000

So You’re EnGAYged:

We’re completely thrilled to have been approved as a pro-gay wedding vendor on So You’re EnGAYged, an excellent wedding resource for same-sex and allied couples.

So You’re…

Gift notifications for guests

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:42 +0100

Gift notifications for guests:

Here at Buy Our Honeymoon, we’re endlessly searching for ways to make sure the experience of reserving gifts from your wedding list is as smooth and enjoyable for your guests as possible….

"The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out..."

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:24:56 +0100

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The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) basically figures out who deserves treatment by using a cost-utility analysis based on the “quality adjusted life year.”

One year in perfect health gets you one point. Deductions are taken for blindness, for being in a wheelchair and so on.

The more points you have, the more your life is considered worth saving, and the likelier you are to get care.
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

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- Batshittistan — a land where Hawking is probably Kenyan or something.

South-east London as seen on Pathé newsreels

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:10:08 +0100

South-east London as seen on Pathé newsreels:

Including some great footage of the Blackwall Tunnel and Cutty Sark

Lots of small updates

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:41:44 +0100

Lots of small updates:

We’ve got some great things cooking for the rest of the year, but we’re always making small improvements and little changes to Buy Our Honeymoon in response to customer feedback and enquiries…

The Top 5 theme customisations (so far)

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:59:06 +0100

The Top 5 theme customisations (so far):

Since we launched our customisable themes earlier this year, we’ve been fascinated to see the different photos you’ve uploaded, and the ways you’ve found to make our designs all your own.

A…

A thought too long for Twitter

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:01:00 +0100

“This isn’t to say I don’t use XHTML. It’s a fine medium for further processing (e.g. applying XSLT). But it’s not right for serving up to browsers verbatim.”

— Jabbering Giraffe

Couldn’t agree more. XML, and thus XHTML, is fantastic as part of a pipeline. XML processing tools let you add custom elements, metadata, display hints, settings and so forth and then a quick dash of XSLT gets you a finished render in HTML. Lovely.

After all, we don’t serve images on the web in .psd format, do we?