I’ve been caught out by this a few times now.

Posting a USB memory stick costs more than a regular letter. Many people just pop them in envelopes and stick a standard second class stamp on it, thinking nothing of it.

And fair enough, you’d be forgiven for thinking something so small should count as a standard letter.

Sadly, they’re generally too thick to be accepted that way, and the recipients end up with a small (but annoying) fee to pay at their local Post Office. Easily the most frustrating thing is usually the postage is only 19p short, to which a pound gets added as a handling fee—and thus the Royal Mail makes more on the transaction than it would cost to send the item twice.

(If you’re on of the people who has recently fallen foul of this when sending me USB sticks, fret not, I have no plans to come after you! Just to show there are no hard feelings, a few bricks are on their way to you, affixed with a single used stamp from New Zealand. Don’t get upset with me, they’re too large to fit through your mail slot so you were always going to have to visit your local Post Office for collection anyway.)

I listen to a LOT of music. It’s not often you’ll see me without a pair of headphones on (which might have something to do with why I’ve got a hearing test this afternoon!).

Some of it is undeniably wonderful, and some of my tastes…well…let’s just say it’s not often that I give out my last.fm profile.

I’m also big on sharing, and like to share playlists or tracks with friends on Facebook, but found whenever I did they were coming up with the “only me” privacy setting, which is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

With Facebook’s seemingly fortnightly changes to it’s privacy management, it’s not always obvious where you fix something like that.

Here is exactly how you fix precisely that:

How to Edit Facebook’s Spotify Privacy Settings – For Dummies.

I’m a big Gmail fan, and use it as my primary email for *@mahoneywebmarketing.co. It may not look from the address like it’s Gmail, but it is.

A personal tweak I like was to change the settings so that when I reply, my rather snazzy email signature appears at the top under the cursor (so it will be directly beneath my reply) rather than all the way at the bottom of what can be a fairly long email thread.

To do this, just go to Settings > Labs, and look for “Signature tweaks”. There’s only one option, so just enable that and you’re done!