Padded Cell

a quote from Andy Kato's blog - one half of Groove Armada quote:Over in the artist area there was already a queue for the washrooms. Having no shower gel with me, I made the most of the waiting time by decanting some of the toilet hand soap into an...

By Greg Milner.I have finally managed to finish this book. Wonderful things deadlines,(woosh woosh) as I'd run out of re-newalls at the library.It seems amazing that even from day one developers of whatever recording system, could persuade the...

Let's hope it's a good one - I can't wait. Date - Grand Prix - Circuit:11 April - Qatar* - Losail25 April - Japan - Motegi2 May - Spain - Jerez16 May - France - Le Mans30 May - Italy - Mugello6 June - Great Britain - Silverstone26 June - Netherlands**...

I went on a speed awareness course yesterday after being caught doing 35mph in a 30 zone. I was pretty miffed as I was looking for directions signs and must have a speed sign where the road changed from 40 to 30.At the end of the day it is down to the...

This new Skype 5.0 beta version brings Skype much more in line with its Windows counterpart in both features and interface.

http://www.whathifi.com/News/H...ward-for-Enterprise/.

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Here we go again. Bloody hate it. Hard when you've young 'uns though. Dad's a kill joy - there got that off my chest.

Who in the States here is going to Washington DC on 10/30/10?I'd be there if I could.

Hi all,Our old BT DECT phones are almost dead, and even with new batteries a year ago they only last a minute or so in use. So, we are after three or four phones in the set, answerphone included, good quality screen, logical menus and buttons, and of...

From BBC News websitequote:News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch was the first senior figure to visit Mr Cameron after he became prime minister.Mr Murdoch, whose Sun newspaper switched its backing from Labour to the Conservatives in the run-up to...

My daughter is try to load a free satnav app but it says she needs to update her phone software to 3.2. How does she update? What does she need. Me, I know nothing.

The wife fancied a laugh (insert own punch line) so we went out to see Mark Watson at the venerable Newcastle City Hall tonight. I knew nothing about this guy, before turning up, but for ten quid I had an excellent night out. Great interaction with...

Dear allI am considering the purcahse of a new digital SLR having prevously owned Canon's.Alot of my shooting will be people based at parties, weddings, school sports days etc.Given these types of fields I would appreciate some advice as to a body and...

This morning we received another 2 of those plastic bags asking for donations of clothes etc for charity. That brings this week's total to 7! I used to put them out empty (still in the original packaging) for them to reuse, but they never seem to...

I bought a nice old house about a year ago. The inspection report said it would need a new roof at some point. The roof is flat, highest in the middle and gradually slopes down to both the front and back. It's what you call a built up roof, or BUR,...

Maybe now I can forgive my mother for giving away all my albums and posters when I went away to college. No wait, I don't have the bass Dylan poster or the original dayglow of endless summer with surfers. I guess I"m still in recovery 35 years later. ...

Hi all,I'm looking at getting an MP3 player and would like some advice as to what to get.I think I need around 16gb storage but only need it to play music, I don't need it to make tea or tell me what plane is flying over . I already have quite a lot...

I’ve just completed 2 weeks of Jury Service, here are my thoughts on this which might be of interest to some of you. What surprised me most was the endless time spent waiting around, on some occasions almost complete days were wasted, very...

I would appreciate of anyone could give some advice over a situation my partner (and me) have with a computer laptop repair shop.On Monday 4th October we took a Hewlett Packard Laptop (new £470ish) to have a broken hinge to the screen (top)...

OSX 10.7 Lion will have Touch Screen support, 3D user interfaces, further improvements in performance and greatly improved integration with the cloud. Lion will use large web architecture and take advantage Apple's new $1bn datacentre.Apple will...

He made my World Cup,He is no more,I'm devastatedSister xx

Can someone please explain the decision to dump these?With Wittering being our local airbase, I find it astonsihing that the flight over my car yesterday may be the last time I see any!

For example, on violin, I want to hear the bow and the sound box, and how the phrase comes out of that. If any beats are present, I want to hear them, as they must be intentional.Drums should have a physical impact on your hearing, and not be blurred...

Brilliant, just brilliant.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11628382