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I have 2 lines - fax and phone. I don't think this is worth getting a PABX system for but I would like the functionality of a more advanced phone mainly:have it go into to answer-machine mode after a set number of ringshave answer mode at lunch and...

I finally set up Skype on my iPhone, emailed a few friends asking who else had done this, and within a few minutes got a Skype call from a friend who's currently in Australia. We spoke for twenty five minutes. The sound quality was excellent, at least...

Finished tonight. Excellent, excellent telly. Terrifically well played, produced and photographed. If you didn't catch it, I urge you to try it on catch up or get get DVD (assuming released). That's what you pay the licence fee for,

A colleague has just told me that the final wicket at the Test match fell as he listened....to the Shipping Forecast...on Radio 4. Wonderful. Makes you proud to be British somehow.Imagine' it is 2043, man is about to meet alien life on the surface of...

Denver Bronco coach Josh McDaniels fired this afternoon."My decision to relieve Josh McDaniels as head coach was not taken lightly. I will always be appreciative of his passion, enthusiasm and hard work, and I thank him for his efforts," Bowlen said...

A Point of View - Living Forever - Joan Bakewell Broadcast on Radio Four at 8.50 GMT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/e...View_Living_Forever/ [BBC iPlayer link]. A pause for thought, and not a wasted word. Please discuss ... ATB from George

What a major poke in the eye that was. Completely absurd in fact. 1966 would have been mentioned far more than I'd have wanted to hear but it would have been a first class tournament in a real football country with guaranteed full houses in first...

i need to get down to surrey from lancashire sat morning (tomorrow) can anyone tell me what the roads are like?cheers

"I haven't been out to check on him for five hours but I went outside for a fag (cigarette) and he's gone," said the female caller.When the operator asked who had gone she replied: "My snowman. I thought that with it being icy and there not being...

Last Saturday I awoke to a very cold house. The central heating was not working, and long-story-short after checking things… I diagnosed the problem down to a worn out Honeywell 3 port motorised valve [it’s been playing up for a while] so without delay I researched the remedy on the internet where I was happy to find lots of info on DIY by simply changing the motorised head unit which is a fairly easy mechanical/electrical job and doesn’t involve the water side of things...

I was shown this message on Facebook."For everyone who drives if you don't already know... As of tomorrow the Police will be pulling over anyone driving around with snow on the roof of there vehicle and will automatically be issued with a £60...

Heat of Hades. Who is going to try n buy? If successful, post where you bought it from!TonyPS. Would two or three in the driveway prevent ice?

I've just got home after eventually finding a garage with diesel on sale. All the others in the Newmarket area had run out, some had run out of unleaded too. Funny how £1.37/l doesn't matter when you're desperate!Anyone else experiencing ...

...led me to see a trailer last night for Dirk Gently on BBC. Yippeeee! I hope, I really hope...Great books by Mr A. . Not the following of Hitchhiker but still a worthy legacy

My main browser is Firefox, using Ubuntu 10.10.If I click on the link for the main Naim website I get a blank page.If I switch to using Chromium I see the website.Any other Firefox users have the same issue?M

I can't imagine how much I'd pay to see an airshow like this now, but it'd be a few hundred quid. And yes, that's napalm lighting up the ground! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...youtube_gdata_playerI accept health and safety, but please, let us live ...

My son thought that this was fantastic. I'm not sure.I do like Dub Step but hey!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbrCfBUzo4YCheersFlettster

This is quite inspiring - beautifully filmed in Edinburgh and Skye, one man and his bike doing the seemingly impossible.Way Back Home

OK the latest in a long line of "why did I do that?" , seemed like a good idea at the time. I rediscovered the USB lead for my Nokia phone, and thought I'd up date the calendar. End result is the iMac calendar is now a copy of phone one not the other...

Bernie Ecclestone was mugged out side his F1 offices on Thursday (25/11) evening , jewelry valued at £240,000 was stolen, and he was kicked and received a head wound. How could anyone stoop so low?His comments following the Brazillian GP , that...

Sad newsWho cares if they work?

I have long held the view that the best and brightest talented young people should have the chance of reading at Universities. But I have never thought that this should be a sort of universal right.I fully support the Universities charging a sizable...

OK then maybe not Roy Keane but I would be very interested in the forums views on Ireland and the Bailout.I think I'm in a state of shock.I can't believe we are borrowing money from the IMF / EU (and maybe some from George Osborne too) to pay back the...

Bet you watch it more than oncePriceless