BreakUpEmail: the fresh new startup helping you dump your tired old partner

Breaking up via email is, frankly, a bit old-fashioned. A few years ago you might've seemed like a complete bastard modernist for doing it, but email's time as the tech-head's dumping mechanism of choice is gone. It's all about delivering the news via a Facebook status update nowadays, daddio.

However, for those of you still wedded to email split-ups, BreakUpEmail will appeal. It promises to save time by helping you construct your so-long-sucker missive by simply ticking boxes. Options include 'he/she has body odour issues', 'he/she is too clingy', and the pithy 'he/she is an asshole' among many more.

It even has options to say if you want to stay friends, ....

Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31

For 11 years, Justin Hall was dedicated to documenting his life online. Composing more than 4,800 pages from nearly a decade of constant writing, which he posted on his site, www.links.net, Hall became a pioneer among online diarists and Web loggers.

For Hall, nothing seemed to be too embarrassing or too personal to write about -- with photos and links. From romantic relationships to his father's suicide to a bad case of shingles, he shared himself with a fairly substantial audience. Thousands of people read his site every day.