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Coverage has begun on BBCi with a highlights programme on BBC3 at 7pm each evening. Tonight's game between Egypt and Cameroon was a cracker and ended 4-2 in favour of the Pharoahs. All in all a good way to liven up the dullest calendar month with some...
My W reg Passat is giving up the ghost and we are being forced onto a lease car scheme. I need pretty well an MPV but don't want a minibus job. I guess I want the best of car driving with room for all the kids. So apart from a Ferrari with a caravan...
Have an ipod that is normally sync'd with my PC. Want to lend it to my son but there are some tunes that I need to remove first. How do I delete single tunes from an ipod? (If I try to turn off syncing then itunes insists on deleting...
...my 15 year old asked for (and got) a reasonable Stagg bass guitar with 20 watt amp (which accepts headphones, thankfully!!!) for Christmas. He will be having lessons in the new year, but are they any good beginners books I could get him?
Hello:Thinking of buying used Naim piece in USA. Most concerned about getting it here and not losing it. Who is the most reliable service from U.S to Canada in your experience?
Answer the question and post your own!To kick off:What is cold wax chatter?George
Ok, I left after nine years.... But this just reminded me of how much fun it was at times: Marshalling RAF StyleTony
I live in a small victorian end terrace, and have recently filled the alcove to the right of the chimney breast in one bedroom with shelving. The shelving is a makeshift affair of bricks, supporting MDF painted to match the walls. A few months on I've...
Good news for campaigners against the death penalty. Kenny Richie has finally been freed from death row in Ohio.Thank goodness we don't have the death penalty in Europe. It doesn't seem to have reduced crime in the USA. Yes ok I realise that it is...
Well - 1st trials started today:Tried:Kawai k3 and K5 – JapanYamaha U1 – JapanSauter 114 Custom – GermanyGuess which one sounded the nicest?Guess which one was the most expensive?To try – Kemble K121, and Yamaha U3...plus any...
Finally, after more than twenty years faithful membership of the Naim club, I've given up. My system has just become too shouty for me in the upper mid-range.It's a an olive active system with CDS2,NAT101,52,SNAXO/HiCap,250s, SBLs fed mainly by a...
Sir Edmund Hillary has died aged 88. A real icon, who could have been more suitable for the ultimate ego trip of standing atop the world that this determined but supremely modest New Zealander?His modesty was typified by his intense reluctance to...
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I live quite close to Jason Bonham (son of Led Zep drummer) soo close in fact that we share a postman. I just found out that my postman delivered to Jason Bonham a few months ago and Jason came out and, to cut a long story short, he asked my postman...
Hi,as part of my ongoing alteration plans to my south facing kitchen dining room, I now have to consider the option of an air-con unit. I also need to look at a humidifier.Anyone any recommendations etc?Any specific questions please fire ...
I have Open Suse 10.3 on my desktop and so far I am very happy.It is friendly user,easy to work and is open source!Unlike Windows,you don t worry anymore about more memory,another better graphic card for games,etc.I think the sucess of Windows is...
I'm on self-assessment. I normally get my (paper) return back in time for HM to do the calculation. But missed the 30.09.2007 deadline because of lack of time.Will the online method by 31.01.2008 still do all the calclulation for me, or (having missed...
Are the most common Creative all right,or for the same money may I get better one´s?I don´t want to spend more than 80-130 Euros!
See article on DPReviewand TSA article
I have imported a few things in the past,Dvd player when they were not available in the uk,But have always been charged import tax ,I read that this does not apply to projectors and would have liked to know if this was fact as it may swing me towards...
Just wanted to post my sincere feelings of sorrow at the death of a very friendly sincere and hard working sportsman. He wasn't a great player but a decent one but that doesn't really matter...he was a really nice genuine guy who leaves behind a very...
Brian Johnston. Classic!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzPeNQiohk8Enjoy! Cricket does quite have the same appeal these days ... ATB from George
I was about to buy top-up the kids xmas money to help them get a 40GB PS3 when I read on Amazon reviews a problem with backwards compatibility with some PS2 games. How widespread is the problem?
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could offload the trials and tribulations of the week. We could get issues off our chests, and maybe, just maybe, gain a few words of support from kindred spirits in return. Here goes. My car was...