Write to your local MP or Lord

TheyWorkForYou - Find out information about your local MP or to contact them (more about what issues they deal with in a link below)
PublicWhip - Find out how any MP or Lord votes
WriteToThem - Contact your MPs or Lords

When shall I contact MP
More about House of Lords
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Write to Poplar MP - Jim Fitzpatrick MP
More about Poplar MP Jim Fitzpatrick
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MP search on Parliament website
All MPs on Parliament website
MP's responsibilities on Parliament website
Aristotle from Guardian - MP database

Your MP will be able to help you with such areas as:
- Tax problems involving HM Revenue & Customs (but not such areas as the council tax, which is paid to your local authority).
- Problems dealt with by the Department of Health such as hospitals and the National Health Service, if you are in England. The Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are responsible for health matters in Scotland and Wales respectively.
- Problems dealt with by the Department of Work and Pensions such as benefits, pensions and national insurance (but not problems with the social services department of your local authority).
- Problems dealt with by the Home Office such as immigration.
- In England, matters such as school closures and grants which are dealt with by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (but not day to day problems involving schools which are run by their governors and your local education authority). In Scotland and Wales the devolved Parliament and Assembly respectively are responsible for education matters.

Your MP is not there to help you in private disputes with other individuals or with companies who have sold you faulty goods, nor, for example, to interfere with decisions made by courts.

How to disable Windows Update

this article

Basically, two ways:
1) Either use gpedit.msc, User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Start Menu and Taskbar -> Remove links and access to Windows Update
2) Or regedit
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
NoWindowsUpdate:DWORD=1
No need to reboot.

Brilliant House Price Index Webpage

http://www.mouseprice.net/

It lists all the properties in the UK (used for house price index). Also lists renting prices, past selling prices, valuation prices, and estate agents. It also functions as a search site for property buying or renting. Registered users can post comments and corrections on each property.

Ox - An Object-Oriented Matrix Language

http://www.doornik.com/ox/

Language tutorial:
http://www.doornik.com/ox/oxtutlan.html

Functions summary:
http://www.doornik.com/ox/oxsumry.html